GeForce RTX 5090 vs Radeon RX 7900 GRE

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Radeon RX 7900 GRE (62/100), 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 GRE
Efficiency 48.0 Poor WINNER 44.0 Poor
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 64.0 Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 GRE
Fire Strike 87569 56225
Night Raid 206648 169714
Port Royal 38202 12467
Solar Bay 236689 90933
Time Spy 46873 22544
Wild Life Extreme 108751 41755

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 GRE
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 GRE
1080p High 299 198
1080p Ultra 254 165
1440p Ultra 207 128
4K Ultra 125 74
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 19918713892
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 30421215281
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 1541339544
Far Cry 6 237202190121 18015513888
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 21214412691
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 1391199859
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 1371088750
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 23322517188
The Witcher 3 364327237123 22020114576

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 GRE
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 57731
Face Detection (HP) 114685 57614
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 15095
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 21206
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 33962
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 6598
Object Detection (SP) 27802 16608
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 214748
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 394987
Text Classification (SP) 4464 4325

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 GRE
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 352.4 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 8.86 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 229 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 1.5 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 7.89 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 6.42 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 24012 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 662.8 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 GRE
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 3.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GB202-300 Navi 31
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 $649
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Amd

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 GRE
Base Clock 2017 MHz 1287 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 2245 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 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 160
Shading Units 21760 5120
Tensor Cores 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 320

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 GRE
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 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 GRE
DirectX 11 341 FPS 300 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 111 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 1210
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 15210 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 GRE
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 260 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 GRE
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 359 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 718 GTexel/s

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