GeForce RTX 5090 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Radeon RX 5700 XT (30/100), 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 5700 XT
Efficiency 48.0 Poor WINNER 36.0 Poor
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 28.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5700 XT
Fire Strike 87569 27551
Night Raid 206648 103057
Port Royal 38202
Solar Bay 236689
Time Spy 46873 9421
Wild Life Extreme 108751 18403

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5700 XT
CUDA 12.0
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes No
Vulkan 1.4 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5700 XT
1080p High 299 106
1080p Ultra 254 83
1440p Ultra 207 57
4K Ultra 125 31
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 90855535
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 1851289147
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 69623315
Far Cry 6 237202190121 102866436
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 131735735
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 75583921
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 67563918
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 1211077235
The Witcher 3 364327237123 113946636

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5700 XT
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 30456
Face Detection (HP) 114685 20621
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 6764
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 7615
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 19081
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 2417
Object Detection (SP) 27802 6684
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 73667
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 147087
Text Classification (SP) 4464 1970

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5700 XT
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 148 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 4.98 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 89.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 0.75 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 4.11 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 3.52 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 10480.7 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 295.8 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5700 XT
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 1.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GB202-300 Navi 10
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 $399
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -Intel Core i5 9600Kor above
Released January 7, 2025 July 7, 2019
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Amd
Nvidia Equivalent -GeForce RTX 3060
Successor -Radeon RX 9070

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5700 XT
Base Clock 2017 MHz 1605 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 1905 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 4MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 No
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 64
Shading Units 21760 2560
Tensor Cores 680 No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 160

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5700 XT
Bus 512-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB 8 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5700 XT
DirectX 11 341 FPS 115 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 63 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 920
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 7522 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5700 XT
Die Size 750 mm² 251 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 7 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 575 W 225 W
Transistor Count 92.2 billion 10 billion
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² 39.84 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 5700 XT
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 122 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 305 GTexel/s

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