GeForce RTX 5090 vs Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada (39/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 74.0 Good WINNER
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 40.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Fire Strike 87569
Night Raid 206648
Port Royal 38202
Solar Bay 236689
Time Spy 46873
Wild Life Extreme 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
CUDA 12.0 8.9
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 3
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
1080p High 299
1080p Ultra 254
1440p Ultra 207
4K Ultra 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077
Far Cry 6 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697
Margin of Error Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128
The Witcher 3 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 29700
Face Detection (HP) 114685 32453
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 6382
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 16489
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 17694
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 4324
Object Detection (SP) 27802 7656
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 56937
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 116441
Text Classification (SP) 4464 3097

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 170.5 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 4.12 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 102.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 1.13 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 4.06 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 3.25 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 12273.1 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 353.4 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GB202-300 AD107
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 $649
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -Intel Core i7 14700Kor above
Released January 7, 2025 February 12, 2022
Segment High-end Mid-range
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Base Clock 2017 MHz 1620 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 2130 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 22
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 12MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 22
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 48
Shading Units 21760 2816
Tensor Cores 680 88
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 88

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Bus 512-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
DirectX 11 341 FPS 139 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 71 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 1071
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 7836 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Die Size 750 mm² 159 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 575 W 70 W
Transistor Count 92.2 billion 18 billion
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² 113.21 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 102 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 187 GTexel/s

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