GeForce RTX 5090 vs Intel Arc B390

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Intel Arc B390 (33/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc B390
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 94.0 Excellent WINNER
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 18.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc B390
Fire Strike 87569 16845
Night Raid 206648 72249
Port Royal 38202 3880
Solar Bay 236689 26783
Time Spy 46873 6880
Wild Life Extreme 108751 11778

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc B390
CUDA 12.0 No
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DirectX 12.2 12.1
DisplayPort 2.1b 2.1
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc B390
1080p High 299 59
1080p Ultra 254 46
1440p Ultra 207 33
4K Ultra 125 16
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 37352813
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 96704623
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 4338219
Far Cry 6 237202190121 63563818
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 80413620
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 37312412
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 332418-
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 65573923
The Witcher 3 364327237123 76634419

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc B390
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 22207
Face Detection (HP) 114685 25029
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 5487
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 16864
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 8788
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 4266
Object Detection (SP) 27802 7449
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 18852
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 95039
Text Classification (SP) 4464 2115

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc B390
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 87.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 2.68 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 58.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 1.01 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 4.74 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 1.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 10821.1 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 249.7 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc B390
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Celestial
Build Discrete Integrated
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB202-300 Panther Lake
Launch price (MSRP) $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -Intel Core Ultra X9 388Hor above
Released January 7, 2025 January 5, 2026
Segment High-end Mid-range
Vendor Nvidia Intel
Used in CPUs -Intel Core Ultra X9 378H-Intel Core Ultra X7 368H-Intel Core Ultra X9 388H-Intel Core Ultra X7 358H

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc B390
Base Clock 2017 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 2500 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 12
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 16MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 12
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 24
Shading Units 21760 1536
Tensor Cores 680 96
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 48

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc B390
Bus 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 System Shared

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc B390
DirectX 11 341 FPS 70 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 48 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 812
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 3669 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc B390
Die Size 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 3 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 IGP
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 575 W 30 W
Transistor Count 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel Arc B390
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 60 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 120 GTexel/s

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