Tested for the first time: The weakest Nvidia RTX GPU still packs a punch

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop - the end of the line in Nvidia's mobile GPU lineup? Not quite! There is an even lower-end solution, something that would have been sold as an Nvidia MX GPU in the past - a product line that Nvidia canceled a few years ago. Nowadays, it is no longer sold as a consumer offering, being confined to the professional part of the market instead.

We are talking about the Nvidia RTX Pro 500 Blackwell Generation, which has the distinction of being the lowest end Nvidia GPU among the current Blackwell generation. Compared with the aforementioned GeForce RTX 5050, the RTX Pro 500 has an even smaller number of pipelines (1792 instead of 2560) and a lower amount of memory (6 GB instead of 8 GB), plus a more limited memory bandwidth of just 96 Bit instead of 128 Bit.

We tested the RTX Pro 500 in the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 6 Intel (available on Amazon), a compact 14.5-inch workstation laptop. In our comprehensive review of this workhorse device, the Nvidia GPU was able to beat the integrated solutions from Intel and Nvidia easily, beating the Intel ARC Graphics 140V by 57 percent and the AMD Radeon 890M by 77 percent. Of course, it still pales in comparison to the GeForce RTX 5050 or even the Radeon 8050S of the Strix Halo series. Still, if GPU performance is needed, choosing a device with the RTX Pro 500 Blackwell Generation GPU gives you a more than valuable boost, especially also when considering aspects like CUDA.

More benchmark results are available in our comprehensive written review of the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 6 Intel.