Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop vs Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (98/100)

Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell leads overall with a score of 98/100 compared to Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop (39/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Efficiency 39.0 Poor 49.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 33.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Fire Strike 26200 75325
Night Raid 61009 214655
Port Royal 5817 39888
Solar Bay 40186 255911
Time Spy 9295 42614
Wild Life Extreme 20653 110070

API

API specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
CUDA 8.6 12
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
1080p High 105 284
1080p Ultra 85 242
1440p Ultra 62 196
4K Ultra 35 118
CoD: Modern Warfare III 85795336 305296252176
Counter-Strike 2 18714310251 36226320393
Cyberpunk 2077 74653917 25322116071
Far Cry 6 100877039 221198185112
Forza Horizon 5 114716241 309235215175
Ghost of Tsushima 66534125 206170158107
Hogwarts Legacy 70594420 23518915089
Margin of Error High High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1151057441 319298224121
The Witcher 3 1321057543 343311216116

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 25256 90853
Face Detection (HP) 30795 103224
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 6590 16903
Image Segmentation (HP) 12226 48518
Image Super Resolution (Q) 16682 54618
Machine Translation (HP) 3207 7291
Object Detection (SP) 8583 26498
Pose Estimation (Q) 71291 338587
Style Transfer (SP) 149822 635289
Text Classification (SP) 2115 3894

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 172.7 img/sec 366.1 img/sec
Edge Detection 7.2 Gpixels/sec 35.2 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 103.8 img/sec 248 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.05 Gpixels/sec 2.47 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.61 Gpixels/sec 45 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 5.34 Gpixels/sec 23.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 14218.2 FPS 42574.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 474.4 Gpixels/sec 3040 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Architecture Ampere Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Laptop Desktop
GPU Codename GA104 GB202-300-A1
Purpose Professional Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 12900HXor above -AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3Dor above
Released April 12, 2021 March 18, 2026
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Launch price (MSRP) $8559

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Base Clock 780-1215 MHz (configurable) 1590 MHz
Boost Clock 1245-1770 MHz (configurable) 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 48 188
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 128MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 48 188
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 190
Shading Units 6144 24064
Tensor Cores 192 752
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 192 752

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Bus 256-bit 512-bit
ECC Yes Yes
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 16 GB 96 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
DirectX 11 138 FPS 339 FPS
DirectX 12 74 FPS 154 FPS
G2D Mark 663 1391
GPU Compute 6941 Ops/s 26607 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Die Size 392 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 8 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
TGP 80-165 W (configurable) 600 W
Transistor Count 17.4 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 44.39 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Pixel Fill Rate 120-170 GPixel/s 497 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 239-340 GTexel/s 1968 GTexel/s

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