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Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX | Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop | 18.00" | 4.2 kg
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop is a mobile graphics card from the Blackwell family for laptops, which was presented at CES 2025 and is expected to be commercially available in April 2025.
Architecture
The GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile utilizes the GB203 chip and employs 10,496 shaders/CUDA cores, which is the maximum of 10,752 that the chip supports. This makes the RTX 5090 Laptop more similar to the RTX 5080 desktop variant (same chip) than the Desktop RTX 5090 with 20,760 cores and higher clock rates.
As a novelty, Blackwell offers support for Multi-Frame Generation (MFG) with DLSS4, thanks to the 5th generation of Tensor cores.
Performance
As our tests show, performance gains over a 175W RTX 4090 Laptop GPU are barely noticeable in 3DMark tests. Still, when it comes to overall gaming performance, the card is 2-19% faster than the previous mobile flagship. The fastest laptop variant we tested is only 5% behind the RTX 5080 desktop.
Power consumption
The GB203 chip is manufactured at TSMC in the 4N (4nm) process. The maximum TGP of the card can reach 175 watts (150 watts + 25 watts Dynamic Boost).
GeForce RTX 5000 Laptop GPU Series
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Codename | GN22-X11 | ||||||||||||||||||
Architecture | Blackwell | ||||||||||||||||||
Pipelines | 10496 - unified | ||||||||||||||||||
TMUs | 328 | ||||||||||||||||||
ROPs | 112 | ||||||||||||||||||
Raytracing Cores | 82 | ||||||||||||||||||
Tensor / AI Cores | 328 | ||||||||||||||||||
Core Speed | 990 - 1515 (Boost) MHz | ||||||||||||||||||
Theoretical Performance | 31.8 TFLOPS FP16, 31.8 TFLOPS FP32 | ||||||||||||||||||
Cache | L1: 10.3 MB, L2: 64 MB | ||||||||||||||||||
Memory Speed | 28000 effective = 1750 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||
Memory Bus Width | 256 Bit | ||||||||||||||||||
Memory Type | GDDR7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Max. Amount of Memory | 24 GB | ||||||||||||||||||
Shared Memory | no | ||||||||||||||||||
Memory Bandwidth | 896 GB/s | ||||||||||||||||||
API | DirectX 12_2, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 1.4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Power Consumption | 150 Watt (95 - 150 Watt TGP) | ||||||||||||||||||
technology | 5 nm | ||||||||||||||||||
PCIe | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Displays | 4 Displays (max.), HDMI 2.1b, DisplayPort 2.1b | ||||||||||||||||||
Notebook Size | large | ||||||||||||||||||
Date of Announcement | 02.01.2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
Predecessor | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU |
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List
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