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NVIDIA RTX 5090 Laptop vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell for local LLMs

Across 2 tests measured on both, the NVIDIA RTX 5090 Laptop is faster in 1 and generates a median 1.30× the tokens/s of the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell.

On Llama 2 7B (Q4_0, llama-bench) the NVIDIA RTX 5090 Laptop generates 158 tokens/s and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell 169 tokens/s (measured).

Same model, same quant, same test

ModelQuant / testRTX 5090 Laptop
tok/s
RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
tok/s
FasterSources and run details
Llama 2 7BQ4_0
llama-bench
158
CUDA
169
CUDA
RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell +7%llama.cpp #15013 RTX 5090 Laptop · llama.cpp #15013 RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
Qwen2.5 14B InstructQ4_K_M
LocalScore
40.5
llamafile
24.2
llamafile
RTX 5090 Laptop +67%LocalScore RTX 5090 Laptop · LocalScore RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell

Generation speed in tokens/s, best measured backend for each chip (shown under the number). Backends can differ between the two chips; check them before drawing conclusions. Measured results only, nothing estimated.

Specs

NVIDIA RTX 5090 LaptopNVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
Memory24 GB32 GB
Memory bandwidth896 GB/s896 GB/s

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