GeForce RTX 5090 vs Radeon RX 6800

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Radeon RX 6800 (45/100), 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 6800
Efficiency 48.0 Poor WINNER 36.0 Poor
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 45.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6800
Fire Strike 87569 44367
Night Raid 206648 142456
Port Royal 38202 8145
Solar Bay 236689 64715
Time Spy 46873 16227
Wild Life Extreme 108751 29767

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6800
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 Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6800
1080p High 299 157
1080p Ultra 254 129
1440p Ultra 207 96
4K Ultra 125 55
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 1461359763
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 26519313175
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 113986532
Far Cry 6 237202190121 14612910661
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 1751149566
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 110897043
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 106866836
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 17916812263
The Witcher 3 364327237123 17214810857

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6800
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 46083
Face Detection (HP) 114685 38124
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 11245
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 13617
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 27747
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 5228
Object Detection (SP) 27802 11986
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 119493
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 281860
Text Classification (SP) 4464 2425

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6800
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 298.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 6.68 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 186.2 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 1.16 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 5.58 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 4.75 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 18755.1 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 579 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6800
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GB202-300 Navi 21
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 $579
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -Intel Core i5 12600or above
Released January 7, 2025 October 28, 2020
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Amd
Nvidia Equivalent -GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6800
Base Clock 2017 MHz 1700 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 2105 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 4MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 60
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 96
Shading Units 21760 3840
Tensor Cores 680 No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 240

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6800
Bus 512-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6800
DirectX 11 341 FPS 211 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 90 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 1002
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 10751 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6800
Die Size 750 mm² 520 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 7 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 575 W 250 W
Transistor Count 92.2 billion 26 billion
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² 50 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6800
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 202 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 505 GTexel/s

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