GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 Ti (66/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 36.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 66.0 Average 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 51935 87569
Night Raid 156537 206648
Port Royal 14890 38202
Solar Bay 109239 236689
Time Spy 21855 46873
Wild Life Extreme 48861 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 192 299
1080p Ultra 162 254
1440p Ultra 127 207
4K Ultra 76 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 18617413990 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 28621315485 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 1581409844 26123316077
Far Cry 6 16015113383 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 20013612699 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 1291058957 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 1411169352 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 254237183101 329302238128
The Witcher 3 21418513071 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 40055 85572
Face Detection (HP) 48657 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 10246 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 22830 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 23532 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 4427 8184
Object Detection (SP) 13323 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 147241 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 298683 687080
Text Classification (SP) 2917 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 362.7 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 15.9 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 227.9 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.56 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 12.1 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 11.3 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 31024.6 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 1080 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Architecture Ampere Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GA102 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 12900Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released March 29, 2022 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1560 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1860 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 84 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 6MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 84 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 176
Shading Units 10752 21760
Tensor Cores 336 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 336 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 384-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1313 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 238 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 121 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 1226 1410
GPU Compute 16494 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 628 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 8 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
TGP 450 W 575 W
Transistor Count 28 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 44.59 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 208 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 625 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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