GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 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 3070 Ti (46/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 35.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 47.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 37242 87569
Night Raid 134068 206648
Port Royal 8884 38202
Solar Bay 69901 236689
Time Spy 14881 46873
Wild Life Extreme 31912 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 8.6 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 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 149 299
1080p Ultra 126 254
1440p Ultra 95 207
4K Ultra 55 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 1291219258 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 25520314283 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 1131006532 26123316077
Far Cry 6 13612710661 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 1571019366 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 96786234 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 104856938 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 17616712467 329302238128
The Witcher 3 17714910457 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 34719 85572
Face Detection (HP) 43834 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 8615 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 24659 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 20631 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 4911 8184
Object Detection (SP) 11498 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 98347 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 196833 687080
Text Classification (SP) 3162 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 197 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 8.81 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 128.1 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.26 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.47 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 6.56 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 18205 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 609.3 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 7800 XT
Architecture Ampere Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GA104 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $599 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 12700Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released June 10, 2021 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1575 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1770 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 48 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 48 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 176
Shading Units 6144 21760
Tensor Cores 192 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 192 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 256-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 19000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1188 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 192 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 90 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 1057 1410
GPU Compute 11384 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 392 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 8 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
TGP 290 W 575 W
Transistor Count 17 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 43.37 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 170 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 340 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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