Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop is a mobile graphics card from the Blackwell family for laptops, which was presented at CES 2025 and was 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. This means that the 5090L is usually capable to display full details at 4k fluently (see below). Furthermore, with the mentioned Multi-Frame Generation (MFG) you can get impressive frame rates, but keep latency in mind.

Power consumption

The GB203 chip is manufactured at TSMC in the 4N (custom 4NP 5nm) process. The maximum TGP of the card can reach 175 watts (150 watts + 25 watts Dynamic Boost). 

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop is a dedicated graphics card from the Blackwell family for laptops, which was presented by Team Green in June 2025. It uses the GB207 chip.

Like the RTX 4050 Laptop GPU, the GPU offers 2,560 unified shaders (CUDA cores) combined with a 128-bit memory bus for 8 GB GDDR7 graphics memory.

Other features of the GPU include native 5th generation ray tracing cores, PCIe 5 support, DisplayPort 2.1a and 440 TOPS AI performance (thanks to the built-in Tensor cores).

The performance without DLSS frame generation should be similar to the old RTX 4060 Laptop GPU laptop GPU. The RTX 5060 is 21 - 22% faster at 115 W (incl. Dynamic Boost) in 3DMark tests (via Videocardz). As usual, performance is heavily dependent on power consumption (TGP) and cooling. Therefore, there will also be significantly slower models in laptops.

The chip is produced at TSMC using the 4nm process (4N). The power consumption (TGP) is specified at 35-100 watts (115 watts incl. Dynamic Boost 2.0).