GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU Review: NVIDIA’s Best Mobile Gaming Chip Yet

At CES 2025 earlier this year, NVIDIA announced a wide array of Blackwell-based GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs, targeting both desktop and laptop systems. To date, NVIDIA has officially launched all of the desktop GPUs mentioned during the initial unveiling. The first to arrive was the beastly GeForce RTX 5090 and most-recently, the GeForce RTX 5070 hit. Today, NVIDIA is kicking of a similar salvo of GPU launches, but this next wave of Blackwells target laptops for gamers and content creators – starting with the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU.

As has been the case for the last couple of generations, NVIDIA is using a similar naming convention between its desktop and laptop GPUs. Note, however, that they don’t all use identical slices of silicon. For example, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU is based on the GB203, similar to the desktop-class RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti, not the ...