GeForce RTX 5090 vs Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 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 G4 (48 EU) (19/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 79.0 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 G4 (48 EU)
Fire Strike 87569 2345
Night Raid 206648 10085
Port Royal 38202
Solar Bay 236689
Time Spy 46873 741
Wild Life Extreme 108751 1606

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
CUDA 12.0
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes No
Vulkan 1.4 1.2

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 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 G4 (48 EU)
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 2678
Face Detection (HP) 114685 2087
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 893
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 1369
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 1052
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 895
Object Detection (SP) 27802 944
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 3981
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 13752
Text Classification (SP) 4464 807

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 18.4 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 0.47 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 10.7 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 0.1 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 1269.5 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 21.5 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Generation 12.1
Build Discrete Integrated
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB202-300 Tiger Lake GT2
Launch price (MSRP) $1999
Purpose Gaming Generic
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released January 7, 2025 August 15, 2020
Segment High-end Entry-level
Vendor Nvidia Intel
Used in CPUs -Intel Core 5 210H-Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX-Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX-Intel Processor U300-Intel Core i5 13420H-Intel Core i5 12450H-Intel Core i3 1125G4-Intel Pentium Gold 7505- and 1 more

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
Base Clock 2017 MHz 400 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 800-1400 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 48
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 No
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 12
Shading Units 21760 384
Tensor Cores 680 No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 24

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
Bus 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps System RAM Dependent
Memory Clock 1750 MHz System RAM Dependent
Memory Size 32 GB System RAM Dependent
Memory Type GDDR7 System Shared

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 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 G4 (48 EU)
Die Size 750 mm² 146 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 G4 (48 EU)
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 10-17 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 19-34 GTexel/s

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