GeForce RTX 5090 vs Radeon RX 5500M

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Radeon RX 5500M (23/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5500M
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 64.0 Average WINNER
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 13.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5500M
Fire Strike 87569 12813
Night Raid 206648 42057
Port Royal 38202
Solar Bay 236689
Time Spy 46873 4287
Wild Life Extreme 108751 6440

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5500M
CUDA 12.0
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4
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 Radeon RX 5500M
1080p High 299 48
1080p Ultra 254 36
1440p Ultra 207 24
4K Ultra 125 13
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 44372715
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 70483316
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 302814-
Far Cry 6 237202190121 52463115
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 72383215
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 3020169
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 29251710
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 55472816
The Witcher 3 364327237123 48392111

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5500M
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 14009
Face Detection (HP) 114685 8964
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 2845
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 3023
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 8505
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 1920
Object Detection (SP) 27802 3032
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 29278
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 58664
Text Classification (SP) 4464 1142

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5500M
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 89.3 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 2.74 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 50.3 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 0.49 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 2.25 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 1.91 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 5898.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 159.9 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5500M
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 1.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB202-300 Navi 14
Launch price (MSRP) $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -AMD Ryzen 5 5600Hor above
Released January 7, 2025 October 7, 2019
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Amd
Successor -Radeon RX 6500M

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5500M
Base Clock 2017 MHz 1375 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 1645 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 22
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 2MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 No
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 32
Shading Units 21760 1408
Tensor Cores 680 No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 88

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5500M
Bus 512-bit 128-bit
ECC No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB 4 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5500M
DirectX 11 341 FPS 36 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 30 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 414
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 2339 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5500M
Die Size 750 mm² 158 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 7 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 575 W 85 W
Transistor Count 92.2 billion 6.4 billion
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² 40.51 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5500M
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 53 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 145 GTexel/s

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