Laptop RTX 5090 Runs Circles Around M5 Max In Prompt Processing & Token Generation With Up To 133% Faster Performance, Until Bigger LLMs Or Context Length Come Into Play

NVIDIA’s laptop RTX 5090 boasts sufficient VRAM to be able to crank every visual setting in the most demanding AAA titles, but when running AI workloads, it’s a whole new ballgame for the GPU’s 24GB framebuffer. Still, a series of tests shows that it’s able to hold its own against Apple’s M5 Max by comprehensively beating it in a series of LLM workloads, that is, until the benchmarks fire up a…