GeForce RTX 5090 vs Radeon RX Vega 6

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Radeon RX Vega 6 (20/100), 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 Vega 6
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 84.0 Very Good WINNER
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 4.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX Vega 6
Fire Strike 87569 2697
Night Raid 206648 11031
Port Royal 38202
Solar Bay 236689
Time Spy 46873 839
Wild Life Extreme 108751 1635

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX Vega 6
CUDA 12.0
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes No
Vulkan 1.4 1.2

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX Vega 6
1080p High 299 11
1080p Ultra 254 -
1440p Ultra 207 -
4K Ultra 125 -
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 161110-
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 191310-
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077
Far Cry 6 237202190121 129--
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 13---
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 9---
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 1110--
The Witcher 3 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX Vega 6
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 3935
Face Detection (HP) 114685 2979
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 986
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 1173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 2200
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 1306
Object Detection (SP) 27802 1093
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 6497
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 13291
Text Classification (SP) 4464 632

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX Vega 6
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 17.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 0.58 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 9.06 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 0.09 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 0.38 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 0.28 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 879 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 27.6 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX Vega 6
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 GCN 5.0
Build Discrete Integrated
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB202-300 Raven
Launch price (MSRP) $1999
Purpose Gaming Generic
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -AMD Ryzen 5 4600Hor above
Released January 7, 2025 February 1, 2018
Segment High-end Entry-level
Vendor Nvidia Amd
Used in CPUs -AMD Ryzen 3 7330U-AMD Ryzen 3 5425U-AMD Ryzen 3 5300G-AMD Ryzen 3 5300U-AMD Ryzen 3 4300G-AMD Ryzen 5 4600H-AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX Vega 6
Base Clock 2017 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 1100-1800 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 6
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 No
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 8
Shading Units 21760 384
Tensor Cores 680 No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 24

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX Vega 6
Bus 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps System RAM Dependent
Memory Clock 1750 MHz System RAM Dependent
Memory Size 32 GB System RAM Dependent
Memory Type GDDR7 System Shared

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX Vega 6
DirectX 11 341 FPS 9 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 6 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 329
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 647 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX Vega 6
Die Size 750 mm² 210 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 7 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 IGP
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 575 W 15 W
Transistor Count 92.2 billion 4.94 billion
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² 23.52 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX Vega 6
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 9-14 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 26-43 GTexel/s

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