AMD Radeon R9 390X VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

amd
Brand8GB GDDR5
Memory2816
Cores384 GB/s
BandwidthRadeon R9 390X

nvidia
Brand32GB GDDR7
Memory21760
Cores1790 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce RTX 5090

AMD Radeon R9 390X
Radeon R9 390X
$429 • Jun 2015
GeForce RTX 5090
$1999 • Jan 2025
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Specs Comparison
| Specification | AMD Radeon R9 390X | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR7 |
| TDP | 275 W | 575 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | N/A | 2407 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 384 GB/s | 1790 GB/s |
| Process Size | 28nm | 5nm |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 | Blackwell 2.0 |
| Shading Units | 2816 | 21760 |
| RT Cores | N/A | 170 |
| TMUs | 176 | 680 |
| ROPs | 64 | 176 |
| Memory Bus | 512-bit | 512-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 67.2 GPixel/s | 423.6 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 384 GTexel/s | 1636.8 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 5.914 GFLOPS | 104.8 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 1.00 MB | 96.00 MB |
| Die Size | 438 mm² | 750 mm² |
| Transistors | 6200 Million | 92200 Million |
| Required PSU | 600 W | 950 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 1x 16-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 12 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks


3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
AMD Radeon R9 390X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090


Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon R9 390X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090


GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon R9 390X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090


PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon R9 390X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks

AMD Radeon R9 390X
AMD • 8GB GDDR5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
NVIDIA • 32GB GDDR7
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