AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

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

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

19220 points

13% slightly better overall score

16967 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

394 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

273 FPS

60 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

213 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

362 FPS

74 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

288 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

159 FPS

163 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3540.90 points

7942.06 points

124% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

187759 points

215096 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

213258 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

191283 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1800 MHz

81% significantly higher core clock speed

990 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2400 MHz

58% significantly higher boost clock speed

1515 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

800 GB/s

896 GB/s

11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

315 W

95 W

231% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

460 Gigapixels/s

171% significantly higher pixel rate

169.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

810 Gigatexels/s

63% significantly higher texture rate

496.9 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

12288

17% slightly more shading units

10496

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

768

134% significantly more texture mapping units

328

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

71% significantly more render output processors

112

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

10th of 596

14th of 596

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 December

2025 March

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 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop in gaming.

The Radeon RX 7900 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 7900 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 95 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XT at 315 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop.