NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 2765.73
$ 566.99
$ 2198.74 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

42789 points
226% significantly better overall score
13092 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

1019 FPS
714 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
305 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

503 FPS
347 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
156 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

740 FPS
513 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
227 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

425 FPS
301 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
124 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

14480 points
175% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
5256 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14992.38 points
142% significantly higher Blender score
6174.82 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

383325 points
102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
188870 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

380401 points
110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
181089 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2017 MHz
2325 MHz
15% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2407 MHz
2512 MHz
4% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit
166% significantly larger memory bus width
192 Bit

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

575 W
250 W
129% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

423.6 Gigapixels/s
110% significantly higher pixel rate
201 Gigapixels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

21760
254% significantly more shading units
6144

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

680
254% significantly more texture mapping units
192

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176
120% significantly more render output processors
80

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1st of 586
27th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 January
2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR7
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 5090 vs GeForce RTX 5070 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5090 beats the GeForce RTX 5070 in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5090 over the GeForce RTX 5070.

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