GeForce RTX 5090 vs Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU) (19/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5090:
  • + Higher Gaming score (100 vs 4)
Why choose Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU):
  • + Higher Efficiency score (80 vs 48)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 80.0 Very Good WINNER
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 4.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
Fire Strike 87569 2365
Night Raid 206648 9688
Port Royal 38202 —
Solar Bay 236689 —
Time Spy 46873 670
Wild Life Extreme 108751 1619

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
CUDA 12.0 —
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes No
Vulkan 1.4 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
1080p High 299 —
1080p Ultra 254 —
1440p Ultra 207 —
4K Ultra 125 —
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 —
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 —
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 —
Far Cry 6 237202190121 —
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 —
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 —
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 —
Margin of Error Low —
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 —
The Witcher 3 364327237123 —

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 2410
Face Detection (HP) 114685 1893
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 765
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 1214
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 981
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 1028
Object Detection (SP) 27802 866
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 3752
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 11417
Text Classification (SP) 4464 847

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 18.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 0.53 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 12.1 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 0.1 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 0.32 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 0.34 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 1203.8 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 20.8 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Generation 12.2
Build Discrete Integrated
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB202-300 Alder Lake GT1
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 —
Purpose Gaming Generic
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -Intel Core i5 11500Hor above
Released January 7, 2025 January 4, 2022
Segment High-end Entry-level
Vendor Nvidia Intel
AMD Equivalent — -Radeon RX Vega 7
Used in CPUs — -Intel Core 3 N355-Intel Core i7 12650HX-Intel Core i9 14900HX-Intel Core i3 N300-Intel Processor N200-Intel Core i3 N305-Intel Core i9 13900HX-Intel Core i7 11850H- and 4 more

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
Base Clock 2017 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 1450-1650 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 32
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster —
L2 Cache 96MB shared 1024KB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 No
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 8
Shading Units 21760 256
Tensor Cores 680 No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 16

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
Bus 512-bit —
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps —
Memory Clock 1750 MHz —
Memory Size 32 GB —
Memory Type GDDR7 System Shared

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
DirectX 11 341 FPS —
DirectX 12 179 FPS —
G2D Mark 1410 —
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s —

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
Die Size 750 mm² —
Fabrication Process 4 nm 10 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 Ring Bus
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
TGP 575 W 15 W
Transistor Count 92.2 billion —
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² —

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 12-13 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 23-26 GTexel/s

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