NVIDIA RTX PRO 1000 Blackwell is a mid-range professional graphics card: built to speed up video, design and 3D work, not to play games. It has 8 GB of memory and came out in 2025.
It is currently fitted in 7 laptops from $2995, at an average price of $4352.
There is a faster and cheaper option: the Apple M5 Pro 20-Core GPU is 38% faster and its entry price is $235 lower.
NVIDIA RTX PRO 1000 Blackwell is a mid-range professional graphics card: built to speed up video, design and 3D work, not to play games. It sits at 28 of 136 in the ranking, with 51.6% of the power of the best graphics card in the catalogue.
Yes, at 1080p on good settings, and at 1440p tweaking a detail or two in the heaviest games. But gaming is not its main job: that power is there for video, design and 3D work.
Yes. 8 GB is plenty at 1080p and holds up well at 1440p, except in the odd recent game with textures maxed out.
No. Beyond being a different chip, in laptops each maker decides how much power it is allowed to draw: on this model, between 35 and 115 W. That is why two laptops with the same card can perform quite differently.
NVIDIA RTX PRO 1000 Blackwell came out in 2025.
It is currently fitted in 7 laptops from $2995, at an average price of $4352.
There is a faster and cheaper option: the Apple M5 Pro 20-Core GPU is 38% faster and its entry price is $235 lower.
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