NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU
The NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU is a laptop graphics processor. It has 16 GB of video memory and a 165 W board power rating. It scores 16,340 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (FL 12_2) and OpenGL 4.6.
Depth: 22 recorded fields, 10 features, 5 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified July 25, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix. Coverage: 3 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU scores 16,340 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 94.7% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #148), measured across 497 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 661.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU averages DirectX 9 180 fps, DirectX 10 114 fps, DirectX 11 138 fps, DirectX 12 74 fps and GPU Compute 6,947 ops/s, across 497 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU states up to 16 GB of memory, DirectX 12_2 and OpenGL 4.6, first benchmarked on 2021-06-24. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Not to be confused with
This page covers the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA RTX A5000, NVIDIA RTX A5000 Mobile, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.
Memory
The NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU is equipped with 16 GB of memory.
Board and power
The NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU has a board power rating of 165 W.
Market
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (FL 12_2) and OpenGL 4.6.
Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU.
Features
The NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.
Rendering
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Supported: DirectX 12 UltimateMicrosoft's top DirectX 12 feature tier, covering hardware ray tracing, mesh shaders, variable-rate shading and sampler feedback.
Not listed (3)
No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU supports Hardware ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS and Vulkan ray tracing. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate under Rendering.
Media engine
The NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265), AV1 and VP9. It does not support hardware encode for AV1.
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 (AVC) | Supported4:4:4: Yes | Supported |
| HEVC (H.265) | Supported4:2:2: No; 4:4:4: Yes; 10-bit: Yes; B-frames: Yes; 8K: Yes | Supported4:4:4: Yes |
| AV1 | Not supported | Supported |
| VP9 | Not stated by the vendor | Supported |
supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor
Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (7th Generation, encoder engines: 1) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (5th Generation, decoder engines: 1).
Naming and aliases
The NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU (Mobile).
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU have?
The NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU has 16 GB of video memory.
How much power does the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU has a board power rating of 165 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU?
The NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU scores 16,340 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 94.7% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #148. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 74 fps.
Does the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU support AV1 encoding?
No. Feex records AV1 hardware encoding as explicitly not supported on the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU, although it can decode AV1 in hardware.
Does the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU support DirectX 12 Ultimate?
Yes. The NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate.