NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 2765.73
$ 609.69
$ 2156.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

42789 points
202% significantly better overall score
14149 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

1019 FPS
728 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
291 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

503 FPS
286 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
217 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

740 FPS
462 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
278 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

425 FPS
291 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
134 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

14480 points
130% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
6282 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14992.38 points
446% significantly higher Blender score
2743.15 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

383325 points
183% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
135343 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

380401 points
126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
167848 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2407 MHz
2520 MHz
4% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

32 GiB
100% significantly more memory
16 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
256 Bit

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

423.6 Gigapixels/s
31% slightly higher pixel rate
322.6 Gigapixels/s

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176
37% slightly more render output processors
128

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1st of 586
23rd of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR7
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce RTX 5090 vs Radeon RX 9070 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5090 beats the Radeon RX 9070 in gaming performance.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 GiB of memory compared to 16 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5090 over the Radeon RX 9070.

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