GeForce RTX 2070 vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce RTX 2070 (31/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 2070 GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 28.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 29.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 23208 87569
Night Raid 92357 206648
Port Royal 5194 38202
Solar Bay 39675 236689
Time Spy 9074 46873
Wild Life Extreme 18257 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 7.5 12.0
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 99 299
1080p Ultra 81 254
1440p Ultra 58 207
4K Ultra 32 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 79745034 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 1811329648 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 67633515 26123316077
Far Cry 6 92836434 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 109705640 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 64503620 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 65564119 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 106986836 329302238128
The Witcher 3 1241007338 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 22978 85572
Face Detection (HP) 21326 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 5244 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 9644 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 13716 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 2542 8184
Object Detection (SP) 6466 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 57284 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 111896 687080
Text Classification (SP) 1857 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 200 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 4.57 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 106.8 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.07 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.84 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 3.73 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 11141.9 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 452 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 GeForce RTX 5090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 5700 XT
Architecture Turing Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename TU106 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $599 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 9700Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released October 17, 2018 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5070
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1410 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1620 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 36 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 36 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 176
Shading Units 2304 21760
Tensor Cores 288 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 256-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 130 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 61 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 816 1410
GPU Compute 6376 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 445 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 175 W 575 W
Transistor Count 10 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 22.47 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 104 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 233 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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