Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU
Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU
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The Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Generation, not to be confused with the A5000, P5000 and the RTX 5000 Turing Generation, is a super-powerful professional graphics card for use in laptops that sports 9,728 CUDA cores and 16 GB of ECC GDDR6 VRAM. Brought into existence in 2023, this graphics adapter leverages TSMC's 5 nm process and Nvidia's Ada Lovelace architecture to achieve great performance combined with reasonable power consumption. The Nvidia-recommended TGP range for the card is very wide at 80 W to 175 W leading to bizarre performance differences between different systems powered by what is supposed to be the same product.
Hardware-wise, the RTX 5000 is a GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop in disguise. Consequently, both make use of the AD103 chip and have little difficulty running triple-A games at UHD 2160p.
Quadro series graphics cards ship with much different BIOS and drivers than GeForce cards and are targeted at professional users rather than gamers. Commercial product design, large-scale calculations, simulation, data mining, 24 x 7 operation - if any of this sounds familiar, then a Quadro card will make you happy.
Architecture and Features
Ada Lovelace brings a range of improvements over older graphics cards utilizing the outgoing Ampere architecture. It's not just a better manufacturing process and a higher number of CUDA cores that we have here (up to 16,384 versus 10,752); under-the-hood refinements are plentiful, including an immensely larger L2 cache and an optimized ray tracing routine (a different way to determine what is transparent and what isn't is used) and other changes. Naturally, these graphics cards can both encode and decode some of the most widely used video codecs, AVC, HEVC and AV1 included; they also support a host of proprietary Nvidia technologies, including Optimus and DLSS 3, and they can certainly be used for various AI tasks.
The RTX 5000 features 76 RT cores of the 3rd generation, 304 Tensor cores of the 4th generation and 9,728 CUDA cores, making it a lot faster than the RTX 4000 Ada Generation. Elsewhere, the graphics card comes with 16 GB of 256-bit wide ECC GDDR6 memory for an impressive throughput of ~576 GB/s. Error correction can be turned off if desired. The fact that error correction is present here proves that the RTX 5000 is indeed targeted at professional users.
Just like Ampere-based cards, the RTX 5000 makes use of the PCI-Express 4 protocol. 8K SUHD monitors are supported, however DP 1.4a video outputs can potentially prove to be a bottleneck down the line.
Performance
The average RTX 5000 Ada Generation in our extensive database is noticeably inferior to the GeForce RTX 4080 in some tests but is totally comparable to the GeForce RTX 4090 in other ones, such as the Geekbench 6.2 GPU Vulkan test.
Nvidia's marketing materials mention "up to 42.6 TFLOPS" of performance which is very impressive. The RTX 4000 Ada Generation delivers up to 33.5 TFLOPS, for reference, while the RTX 500 Ada is only good for 9 TFLOPS.
Your mileage may vary depending on how competent the cooling solution of your laptop is and how high the TGP power target of the RTX 5000 is. One other thing worth mentioning is that enabling error correction appears to reduce the amount of video memory that is available to applications and games by up to a gigabyte.
Power consumption
Nvidia no longer divides its laptop graphics cards into Max-Q and non-max-Q models. Instead, laptop makers are free to set the TGP according to their needs, and the range can sometimes be shockingly wide. This is the case with the RTX 5000 Ada, as the lowest value recommended for it sits at just 80 W while the highest is more than two times higher at 175 W (this most likely includes Dynamic Boost). The slowest system built around an RTX 5000 Ada can easily be 60% slower than the fastest one. This is the kind of delta that we've already seen on consumer-grade laptops featuring the latest GeForce RTX cards.
Last but not the least, the improved 5 nm process (TSMC 4N) the RTX 5000 is built with makes for very decent energy efficiency, as of mid 2023.
NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU
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The NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU or A5000 Mobile is a professional graphics card for mobile workstations. It is based on the GA104 Ampere chip and similar to the consumer GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU. It offers the same 6.144 graphics cores, 48 RT cores, 192 Tensor cores and 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a 256 Bit memory bus. It supports PCIe 4.0 and will be available in different variants from 80 - 165 Watt (TGP) with different clock speeds (and performance). The GPU supports eDP 1.4b to connect the internal monitor and DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.1 for external connections.
There is no more Max-Q variant (formerly used for the low power variants) but every OEM can choose to implement Max-Q technologies (Dynamic Boost, Whispermode).
The raw performance should be similar to the GeForce RTX 3080 for laptops at the same TGP level. Both GPUs depend heavily on good cooling and a high TGP for good performance. At a similar power consumption level the RTX A5000 should be clearly faster than the old Quadro RTX 5000 and 5000 Max-Q. The desktop variant of the A5000 however, is a lot faster.
The GA104 chip offers 6,144 FP32 ALUs of which half can also execute INT32 instructions (i.e. 3,072 INT32 ALUs). With Turing all shaders could still execute FP32 or INT32 instructions. The raytracing and tensor cores on the chip were also improved according to Nvidia. The Ampere chips also include an improved 5th generation video encoder (NVENC for H.264 and H.265) and a 7th generation decoder (for various formats now including AV1).
The GA104 chip is manufactured by Samsung in 8nm (8N), which is not quite able to keep up with the 7nm node at TSMC (e.g. used by AMD and also for the professional GA100 Ampere chip).
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| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Ampere | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pipelines | 9728 - unified | 6144 - unified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TMUs | 304 | 192 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ROPs | 112 | 96 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Raytracing Cores | 76 | 48 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tensor / AI Cores | 304 | 192 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Core Speed | 930 - 1680 (Boost) MHz | 1215 - 1770 (Boost) MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cache | L2: 64 MB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Speed | 20000 effective = 2250 MHz | 14000 effective = 1750 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Bus Width | 256 Bit | 256 Bit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Max. Amount of Memory | 16 GB | 16 GB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shared Memory | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Bandwidth | 576 GB/s | 448 GB/s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| API | DirectX 12 Ultimate, Shader 6.7, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 1.3 | DirectX 12_2, Shader 6.7, OpenGL 4.6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power Consumption | 150 Watt (80 - 150 Watt TGP) | 165 Watt (80 - 150 Watt TGP) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transistors | 76.3 Billion | 17.4 Billion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| technology | 4 nm | 8 nm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PCIe | 4 x16/x8 | 4.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Displays | 4 Displays (max.), HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a | HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notebook Size | large | large | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Announcement | 21.03.2023 | 12.04.2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Link to Manufacturer Page | images.nvidia.com | www.nvidia.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | RTX A5500 Laptop GPU | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Codename | GA104 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Theoretical Performance | 21.7 TFLOPS FP32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Die Size | 392 mm² | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Features | DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.1, PCIe 4.0 x16, 21.7 SP-FP TFLOPS Peak, 174 Tensor Performance Peak, up to 448 GB/s Memory Bandwidth, Resizable BAR, Support for Modern Standby |
Benchmarks
specvp12 sw-03 + Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit + Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU
GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 + NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU
Average Benchmarks Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU → 100% n=41
Average Benchmarks NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU → 74% n=41
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
Game Benchmarks
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.
Baldur's Gate 3
2023
Returnal
2023
F1 22
2022
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6
2022
Far Cry 6
2021
F1 2021
2021
Hitman 3
2021
Cyberpunk 2077 1.0
2020
Dirt 5
2020
Watch Dogs Legion
2020
Horizon Zero Dawn
2020
F1 2020
2020
Gears Tactics
2020
Borderlands 3
2019
Far Cry New Dawn
2019
Metro Exodus
2019
Strange Brigade
2018
Far Cry 5
2018
X-Plane 11.11
2018
Dota 2 Reborn
2015
The Witcher 3
2015
GTA V
2015Average Gaming Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU → 100%
Average Gaming 30-70 fps → 100%
Average Gaming NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU → 73%
Average Gaming 30-70 fps → 63%
| Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU | NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU | |||||||||||||
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| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |||
| Cyberpunk 2077 2.2 Phantom Liberty | 125 | 116.6 | 94.6 | 108.5 | 63.7 | 28.8 | ||||||||
| Baldur's Gate 3 | 172.3 | 155.2 | 139.2 | 134.6 | 100.5 | 53.3 | ||||||||
| Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart | 118 | 93.9 | 69.4 | 54.5 | 43.4 | 33.3 | ||||||||
| Returnal | 98 | 94 | 90 | 81 | 60 | 34 | ||||||||
| F1 22 | 236 | 229 | 210 | 87 | 60 | 31 | ||||||||
| Tiny Tina's Wonderlands | 228 | 203 | 157 | 129 | 92 | 51 | ||||||||
| Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 | 118 | 115 | 106 | 102 | 70 | 35 | ||||||||
| Strange Brigade | 408 | 326 | 291 | 268 | 203 | 105 | 389 | 226 | 190 | 166 | 128 | 75 | ||
| Far Cry 5 | 149 | 137 | 131 | 127 | 119 | 71 | 107 | 94 | 88 | 83 | 76 | 43 | ||
| X-Plane 11.11 | 155 | 134 | 105 | 88 | 120 | 102 | 83 | 55 | ||||||
| Final Fantasy XV Benchmark | 197 | 170 | 136 | 108 | 64 | 174 | 126 | 94 | 72 | 43 | ||||
| Dota 2 Reborn | 186 | 168 | 164 | 150 | 143 | 154 | 142 | 132 | 124 | 107 | ||||
| The Witcher 3 | 445 | 370 | 271 | 144 | 102 | 337 | 239 | 151 | 90 | 62 | ||||
| GTA V | 185.4 | 179.7 | 175.3 | 117.1 | 106.6 | 108 | 179 | 173 | 150 | 86 | 79 | 81 | ||
| Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU | NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU | |||||||||||||
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 3 11 | 4 10 | 5 9 | 1 5 6 | 1 9 1 | 1 6 6 1 | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 1 6 | 2 5 | 3 4 | 3 2 | 3 1 | 3 4 |
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