GeForce RTX 5090 vs Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada (84/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Efficiency 48.0 Poor WINNER 43.0 Poor
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 81.0 Very Good

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Fire Strike 87569 62803
Night Raid 206648 148225
Port Royal 38202 19497
Solar Bay 236689 145429
Time Spy 46873 26529
Wild Life Extreme 108751 53640

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
CUDA 12.0 8.9
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 3
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
1080p High 299 220
1080p Ultra 254 186
1440p Ultra 207 149
4K Ultra 125 88
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 220214174116
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 31321917383
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 19617212358
Far Cry 6 237202190121 17516014891
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 231168153125
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 14812411068
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 16413710860
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 287267201109
The Witcher 3 364327237123 24621215280

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 68370
Face Detection (HP) 114685 69004
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 13367
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 32477
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 42056
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 5545
Object Detection (SP) 27802 18668
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 230965
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 520389
Text Classification (SP) 4464 3491

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 618.3 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 22.1 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 399.9 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 26.3 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 15.1 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 53494.5 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 2210 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GB202-300 AD102
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 $6800
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released January 7, 2025 December 3, 2022
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Base Clock 2017 MHz 915 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 2505 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 142
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 142
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 192
Shading Units 21760 18176
Tensor Cores 680 568
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 568

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Bus 512-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 20000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2500 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB 48 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
DirectX 11 341 FPS 284 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 102 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 1008
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 22495 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Die Size 750 mm² 609 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 575 W 300 W
Transistor Count 92.2 billion 76 billion
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² 124.79 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 481 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 1423 GTexel/s

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