GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER (34/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 27.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 32.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 25679 87569
Night Raid 102662 206648
Port Royal 6032 38202
Solar Bay 45863 236689
Time Spy 10166 46873
Wild Life Extreme 20744 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 7.5 12.0
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 112 299
1080p Ultra 91 254
1440p Ultra 66 207
4K Ultra 38 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 93865941 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 20214610756 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 82724322 26123316077
Far Cry 6 103917340 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 123746544 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 73584126 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 74614625 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1211148041 329302238128
The Witcher 3 1361137943 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 26192 85572
Face Detection (HP) 32861 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 6648 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 16442 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15383 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 4239 8184
Object Detection (SP) 8194 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 66348 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 137642 687080
Text Classification (SP) 2166 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 166.7 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 5.56 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 103.3 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.17 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.58 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 4.21 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13242.9 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 489.7 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Architecture Turing Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename TU104 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $499 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 9700Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released July 9, 2019 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1605 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1770 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 40 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 40 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 176
Shading Units 2560 21760
Tensor Cores 320 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 256-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 154 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 67 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 878 1410
GPU Compute 7441 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 545 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 215 W 575 W
Transistor Count 13 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 23.85 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 113 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 283 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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