GeForce RTX 5090 vs Nvidia N1X (48SM)

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

Both devices are evenly matched with an overall score of 96/100.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia N1X (48SM)
Efficiency 48.0 Poor —
Gaming 100.0 Excellent —

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia N1X (48SM)
Fire Strike 87569 —
Night Raid 206648 —
Port Royal 38202 —
Solar Bay 236689 —
Time Spy 46873 —
Wild Life Extreme 108751 —

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia N1X (48SM)
CUDA 12.0 12.1
DLSS DLSS 4 —
DirectX 12.2 —
DisplayPort 2.1b —
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 —
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 —

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia N1X (48SM)
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 Nvidia N1X (48SM)
Backend DirectML —
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 —
Face Detection (HP) 114685 —
Framework ONNX —
Image Classification (SP) 18948 —
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 —
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 —
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 —
Object Detection (SP) 27802 —
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 —
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 —
Text Classification (SP) 4464 —

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia N1X (48SM)
API OpenCL —
Background Blur 333 img/sec —
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec —
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec —
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec —
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec —
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec —
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS —
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec —

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia N1X (48SM)
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Blackwell (N1x)
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB202-300 GB20B
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 —
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above —
Released January 7, 2025 June 1, 2026
Segment High-end Mid-range
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia N1X (48SM)
Base Clock 2017 MHz 1665 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 2418 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 48
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 50MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 48
Shading Units 21760 6144
Tensor Cores 680 192
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 384

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia N1X (48SM)
Bus 512-bit 256-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 Nvidia N1X (48SM)
DirectX 11 341 FPS —
DirectX 12 179 FPS —
G2D Mark 1410 —
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s —

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia N1X (48SM)
Die Size 750 mm² —
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 575 W —
Transistor Count 92.2 billion —
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² —

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia N1X (48SM)
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 116 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 929 GTexel/s

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