GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 (42/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce RTX 3070
GeForce

GeForce RTX 3070

42/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 5090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5090

96/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 35.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 43.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 34056 87569
Night Raid 122159 206648
Port Royal 8312 38202
Solar Bay 64452 236689
Time Spy 13644 46873
Wild Life Extreme 28488 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 8.6 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 3070 GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 141 299
1080p Ultra 119 254
1440p Ultra 88 207
4K Ultra 50 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 1211138552 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 24419413777 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 106945928 26123316077
Far Cry 6 1321219654 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 147998661 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 89745631 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 97806235 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 16515311360 329302238128
The Witcher 3 16814310054 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 30418 85572
Face Detection (HP) 40535 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 7624 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 23420 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 17898 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 4481 8184
Object Detection (SP) 10304 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 83624 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 180089 687080
Text Classification (SP) 2724 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 161.6 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 8.05 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 117.2 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.25 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.65 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 5.89 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 17613.1 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 550.6 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 5090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 7800 XT —
Architecture Ampere Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GA104 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $499 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 12700Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released October 22, 2020 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 3070 GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1500 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1725 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 46 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 46 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 176
Shading Units 5888 21760
Tensor Cores 184 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 184 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 183 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 84 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 1005 1410
GPU Compute 11007 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 392 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 8 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
TGP 220 W 575 W
Transistor Count 17 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 43.37 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 166 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 317 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 5090
Date Benchmark —
📘 2025-11-15(mit) Cinebench 2024 —

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