RTX 5090 laptop GPU gaming benchmarks show promising performance uplift over RTX 4090

Even though Nvidia technically showed off the RTX 5090 laptop variant at CES, laptops outfitted with said graphics card are yet to hit shelves anywhere. Its first Geekbench showing wasn't great because of throttling, and that's why Nvidia may have waited for so long to launch it officially. YouTuber Dave2D has now shown off some gaming benchmarks of the Blackwell flagship. It was powering the new Razer Blade 16, likely alongside an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370.

Starting with Black Myth: Wukong, the GeForce RTX 5090 is 33% faster than the RTX 4090 at 1600p with DLSS Balanced. Similarly, in Hogwarts Legacy (Ultra Settings, RT on), Blackwell takes a commanding 69% lead. Interestingly, the RTX 5090 is only 12% faster than the RTX 4090 in Cyberpunk 2077 with RT overdrive. Lastly, Marvel Rivals offered a 48% performance uplift over Ada Lovelace with maxed-out settings.

These figures are not surprising because the RTX 5090 offers a massive spec bump over the RTX 4090, such as 24 GB of GDDR7 VRAM versus 16 GB of the RTX 4090. Nvidia's own tech demo at GDC painted just about the same picture. That, combined with Nvidia's under-the-hood Blackwell improvements and software trickery, should easily result in double, or even triple-digit performance uplift across generations. As is the case with most laptop parts, the GPU will only be as good as the power limit it gets.