Leaked Nvidia RTX 5090 laptop GPU benchmarks are weird - but there's no need to panic

• Nvidia's RTX 5090 laptop GPU shows inconsistent Geekbench 6 performance scores
• Fails to score higher than the RTX 4080 or 4090 laptop GPUs in Vulkan
• It hasn't launched yet, and there aren't any official drivers available

CES 2025 finally gave us a look at Nvidia's new RTX 5000 series of graphics cards, and the flagship RTX 5090 GPU's performance capabilities compared to the last generation's RTX 4090 - but early benchmarks for its laptop GPU don't look very promising.

This comes from BenchLeaks on X, which claims to have leaked Geekbench 6 results of Nvidia's RTX 5090 laptop GPU using Vulkan (graphics API used in plenty of games), with its highest score of 114,821. Tom's Hardware highlighted this as the fourth benchmark among five different tests, with the lowest score sitting at 51,831 and the final test ...