- Nvidia’s RTX 5090 Laptop GPU Shows Inconsistent Performance Scores in Geekbench 6
- Doesn’t score higher than RTX 4080 or 4090 laptop GPUs on Vulkan
- It has not been released yet and there are no official drivers available.
CES 2025 finally gave us a look at Nvidia’s new RTX 5000 series of graphics cards and the performance capabilities of the flagship RTX 5090 GPU compared to the last-gen RTX 4090, but the first benchmarks for the GPU Your laptop doesn’t look very promising.
This comes from BenchLeaks on Tom’s Hardware highlighted this as the fourth benchmark among five different tests, with the lowest score of 51,831 and the final test score of 77,989.
Each benchmark score points to wildly inconsistent performance for Team Green’s flagship laptop GPU, which failed to score higher than the RTX 4080’s 145,067 and RTX 4090’s 167,655 Geekbench scores on Vulkan (both are for the laptop versions of those GPUs). While these results may be cause for concern, it is too early to draw conclusions.
Should we worry about these early benchmarks?
While these tests are almost certainly not pleasant to look at, they are absolutely no cause for panic. Aside from the fact that these benchmarks are not official but are said to have been leaked, the RTX 5000 series hasn’t even been officially launched yet (the RTX 5090 will be available at the end of the month), which means that they are needed drivers and no optimizations have been made yet.
It’s also important to note that in-game benchmarks matter most: while Geekbench 6 may be accurate in measuring a GPU’s performance capabilities, the scores will never be the same as each test will often vary drastically. or closely. Despite the inconsistent scores here, we should wait to see how the RTX 5090 laptop’s GPU fares in various games once Nvidia makes the necessary adjustments and official drivers have been released.
We should review both the RTX 5090 desktop and gaming laptops with the mobile version, so be sure to check out our full reviews when they become available for reliable, independent verdicts on how good (or not) these new ones are. Nvidia GPUs really are.
