GeForce RTX 5090 vs Radeon 8040S

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Radeon 8040S (29/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5090:
  • + Higher Gaming score (100 vs 15)
Why choose Radeon 8040S:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (85 vs 48)
[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 5090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5090

96/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon 8040S
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 85.0 Very Good WINNER
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 15.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon 8040S
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 Radeon 8040S
CUDA 12.0 No
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DirectX 12.2 12.2
DisplayPort 2.1b 2.1a
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon 8040S
1080p High 299 54
1080p Ultra 254 41
1440p Ultra 207 28
4K Ultra 125 13
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 49413115
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 84603915
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 322917-
Far Cry 6 237202190121 61493516
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 76403117
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 33251810
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 33262010
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 65553217
The Witcher 3 364327237123 53442614

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon 8040S
Backend DirectML —
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 —
Face Detection (HP) 114685 —
Framework ONNX —
Image Classification (SP) 18948 —
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 —
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 —
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 —
Object Detection (SP) 27802 —
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 —
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 —
Text Classification (SP) 4464 —

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon 8040S
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 106.8 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 1.17 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 43.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 0.5 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 1.07 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 1.12 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 5820.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 163 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon 8040S
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 3.5
Build Discrete Integrated
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB202-300 Strix Halo
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 —
Purpose Gaming Generic
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380or above
Released January 7, 2025 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end Mid-range
Vendor Nvidia Amd
Nvidia Equivalent — -GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
Used in CPUs — -AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon 8040S
Base Clock 2017 MHz 1295 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 2800 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 16
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster —
L2 Cache 96MB shared 2MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 16
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 32
Shading Units 21760 1024
Tensor Cores 680 No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 64

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon 8040S
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 Radeon 8040S
DirectX 11 341 FPS 80 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 47 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 1052
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 5138 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon 8040S
Die Size 750 mm² 308 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 575 W 55 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 Radeon 8040S
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 90 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 179 GTexel/s

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