GeForce RTX 5090 vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Radeon RX 7900 XTX (77/100), 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 7900 XTX
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 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Fire Strike 87569 73279
Night Raid 206648 183191
Port Royal 38202 16759
Solar Bay 236689 123985
Time Spy 46873 30804
Wild Life Extreme 108751 58739

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
CUDA 12.0
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b 2.1
OpenCL 3.0 2.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
1080p High 299 242
1080p Ultra 254 203
1440p Ultra 207 159
4K Ultra 125 95
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 264251192128
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 33322716685
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 20318112659
Far Cry 6 237202190121 212181170109
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 253175156122
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 16814012277
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 16714311364
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 302274208112
The Witcher 3 364327237123 28025117796

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 66140
Face Detection (HP) 114685 71321
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 18608
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 25385
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 45641
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 7425
Object Detection (SP) 27802 21335
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 257258
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 483867
Text Classification (SP) 4464 5240

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 423.9 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 13.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 270.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 1.74 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 11.1 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 9.23 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 29891.2 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 871 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 3.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GB202-300 Navi 31
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -Intel Core i7 13700Kor above
Released January 7, 2025 November 3, 2022
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Amd
Nvidia Equivalent -GeForce RTX 4080

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Base Clock 2017 MHz 1929 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 2498 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 4 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 256KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 6MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 192
Shading Units 21760 6144
Tensor Cores 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 384

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
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 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
DirectX 11 341 FPS 355 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 133 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 1289
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 17772 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Die Size 750 mm² 529 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 575 W 355 W
Transistor Count 92.2 billion 57 billion
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² 107.75 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 480 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 959 GTexel/s

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