GeForce RTX 5090 vs Radeon RX 7900 XT

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Radeon RX 7900 XT (70/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 5090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5090

96/100
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Radeon RX 7900 XT
Radeon

Radeon RX 7900 XT

70/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XT
Efficiency 48.0 Poor WINNER 45.0 Poor
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 71.0 Good

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XT
Fire Strike 87569 67227
Night Raid 206648 176232
Port Royal 38202 14360
Solar Bay 236689 105357
Time Spy 46873 27106
Wild Life Extreme 108751 48410

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XT
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 XT
1080p High 299 219
1080p Ultra 254 184
1440p Ultra 207 142
4K Ultra 125 84
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 228214163108
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 31122215781
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 18115610849
Far Cry 6 237202190121 196168151100
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 235160141107
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 15012610969
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 1531249856
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 271258189101
The Witcher 3 364327237123 24922516087

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XT
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 67746
Face Detection (HP) 114685 67615
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 16951
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 23234
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 41128
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 7043
Object Detection (SP) 27802 18737
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 237026
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 457919
Text Classification (SP) 4464 4961

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XT
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 419.8 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 12 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 240.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 1.71 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 9.88 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 8.72 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 26631.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 701.7 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XT
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 3.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GB202-300 Navi 31
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 $899
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -Intel Core i7 13700Kor above
Released January 7, 2025 December 13, 2023
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 XT
Base Clock 2017 MHz 1387 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 2394 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 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 192
Shading Units 21760 5376
Tensor Cores 680 —
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XT
Bus 512-bit 320-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 20000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2500 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB 20 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XT
DirectX 11 341 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 112 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 1247
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 16873 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XT
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 300 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 XT
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 460 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 804 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 7900 XT
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-01-01(Mr Scare) — Cinebench 2024

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