GeForce RTX 5090 vs Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada (73/100), 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 5000 Ada
Efficiency 48.0 Poor WINNER 44.0 Poor
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 72.0 Good

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Fire Strike 87569 49922
Night Raid 206648 139369
Port Royal 38202 17986
Solar Bay 236689 128428
Time Spy 46873 18364
Wild Life Extreme 108751 52866

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 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 5000 Ada
1080p High 299 194
1080p Ultra 254 163
1440p Ultra 207 129
4K Ultra 125 76
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 18217613791
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 29221115886
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 1601439948
Far Cry 6 237202190121 16515313281
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 20114113298
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 1291069359
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 1391149251
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 265241188101
The Witcher 3 364327237123 21218413373

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 50352
Face Detection (HP) 114685 43098
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 9943
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 19696
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 32252
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 4064
Object Detection (SP) 27802 12467
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 138689
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 265482
Text Classification (SP) 4464 2893

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 286.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 13.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 220.4 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 2.2 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 18.9 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 9.93 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 41235.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 1580 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GB202-300 AD102
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 $4000
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released January 7, 2025 August 9, 2023
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Base Clock 2017 MHz 1155 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 2550 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 100
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 72MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 100
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 176
Shading Units 21760 12800
Tensor Cores 680 400
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 400

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
Bus 512-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2250 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
DirectX 11 341 FPS 271 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 110 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 1009
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 20730 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 5000 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 250 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 5000 Ada
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 449 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 1020 GTexel/s

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