AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Price

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$ 679.99

$ 2085.74 significantly less expensive

$ 2765.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

19220 points

42789 points

122% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

393 FPS

1019 FPS

626 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

273 FPS

503 FPS

230 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

362 FPS

740 FPS

378 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

158 FPS

425 FPS

267 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5616 points

14480 points

157% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3540.90 points

14992.38 points

323% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

187759 points

383325 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

213258 points

380401 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1800 MHz

2017 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2400 MHz

2407 MHz

0.29% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

20 GiB

32 GiB

60% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

512 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

315 W

82% significantly lower TDP

575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

460 Gigapixels/s

8% slightly higher pixel rate

423.6 Gigapixels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

12288

21760

77% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

768

12% slightly more texture mapping units

680

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

9% slightly more render output processors

176

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

10th of 586

1st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 December

2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 7900 XT vs GeForce RTX 5090 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5090 beats the Radeon RX 7900 XT in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5090 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 GiB of memory compared to 20 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 7900 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 315 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5090 is faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XT.