NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 VS AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

nvidia

Brand

32GB GDDR7

Memory

21760

Cores

1790 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 5090

$2,955.99 Jan 2025 View Details

$2,999.99

$2,955.99

amd

Brand

16GB GDDR6

Memory

4096

Cores

644.6 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 9070 XT

$599.99 Mar 2025 View Details

$599.99

$629.99

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

32GB GDDR7 575W $2,955.99 Jan 2025

GeForce RTX 5090

$1999 • Jan 2025

Radeon RX 9070 XT

$599 • Mar 2025

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

16GB GDDR6 304W $599.99 Mar 2025

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090	AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
Memory Size	32 GB	16 GB
Memory Type	GDDR7	GDDR6
TDP	575 W	304 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2407 MHz	2970 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	1790 GB/s	644.6 GB/s
Process Size	5nm	4nm
Architecture	Blackwell 2.0	RDNA 4.0
Shading Units	21760	4096
RT Cores	170	64
TMUs	680	256
ROPs	176	128
Memory Bus	512-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1750 MHz	2518 MHz
Pixel Rate	423.6 GPixel/s	380.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	1636.8 GTexel/s	760.3 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	104.8 GFLOPS	48.66 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	96.00 MB	8.00 MB
Die Size	750 mm²	357 mm²
Transistors	92200 Million	53900 Million
Required PSU	950 W	700 W
Power Connectors	1x 16-pin	2x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	PCIe 5.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.4	1.3
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

53022 (+98%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

26809

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

419309 (+129%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

182816

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

624.6 FPS (+99%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

313.3 FPS

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

39505 (+47%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

26815

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Game Benchmarks Comparison (231 benchmarks)

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora From The Ashes

7.6 2025 • Action, Adventure • Massive Entertainment – A Ubisoft Studio, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Reflections

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 5090 (+61%)

AVG 153 FPS

MIN 133 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 5090 (+74%)

AVG 120 FPS

MIN 109 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 69 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 5090 (+111%)

AVG 78 FPS

MIN 72 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

Winner

Loser

PRAGMATA SKETCHBOOK - DEMO

8.2 2025 • Action, Adventure • CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+42%)

AVG 173 FPS

MIN 155 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 122 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+46%)

AVG 145 FPS

MIN 129 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 99 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+67%)

AVG 105 FPS

MIN 94 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

Winner

Loser

Assassin's Creed Mirage Valley of Memories Background

Assassin's Creed Mirage Valley of Memories

8 2025 • Action, Adventure • Ubisoft Bordeaux

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

GeForce RTX 5090 (+31%)

AVG 211 FPS

MIN 165 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 161 FPS

MIN 143 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

GeForce RTX 5090 (+32%)

AVG 181 FPS

MIN 155 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 137 FPS

MIN 122 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

GeForce RTX 5090 (+58%)

AVG 142 FPS

MIN 128 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 90 FPS

MIN 80 FPS

Winner

Loser

Company of Heroes 3: Endure & Defy Background

Company of Heroes 3: Endure & Defy

8.5 2025 • Action, Strategy • Relic Entertainment

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 5090 (+37%)

AVG 276 FPS

MIN 98 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 202 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 5090 (+60%)

AVG 268 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 167 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 5090 (+113%)

AVG 198 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

Winner

Loser

Of Ash and Steel

8.7 2025 • Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG • Fire & Frost

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+67%)

AVG 281 FPS

MIN 236 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 168 FPS

MIN 138 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+111%)

AVG 281 FPS

MIN 236 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 133 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+183%)

AVG 238 FPS

MIN 200 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 71 FPS

Winner

Loser

Where Winds Meet

8.2 2025 • Action, Adventure, RPG, Free To Play • Everstone Studio

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+23%)

AVG 194 FPS

MIN 155 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 158 FPS

MIN 139 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+56%)

AVG 194 FPS

MIN 155 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 124 FPS

MIN 113 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5090 (+94%)

AVG 149 FPS

MIN 132 FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 70 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Wins!

Based on 234 benchmarks across 67 games

136

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 5090

+61.9%

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT