GeForce RTX 5090 vs Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)

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

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU) (17/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5090:
  • + Higher Gaming score (100 vs 3)
Why choose Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU):
  • + Higher Efficiency score (79 vs 48)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 79.0 Good WINNER
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 3.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
Fire Strike 87569 1103
Night Raid 206648 4719
Port Royal 38202 —
Solar Bay 236689 —
Time Spy 46873 308
Wild Life Extreme 108751 745

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
CUDA 12.0 —
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes No
Vulkan 1.4 1.2

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
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 Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 1237
Face Detection (HP) 114685 951
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 406
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 609
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 530
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 542
Object Detection (SP) 27802 451
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 1936
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 5464
Text Classification (SP) 4464 538

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 8.99 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 0.25 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 5.66 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 0.04 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 567.5 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 10 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Generation 12.1
Build Discrete Integrated
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename GB202-300 Tiger Lake Xe
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 —
Purpose Gaming Generic
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above —
Released January 7, 2025 May 10, 2021
Segment High-end Entry-level
Vendor Nvidia Intel
Used in CPUs — -Intel Core Ultra 5 225-Intel Core i5 12450HX-Intel Core i5 14450HX-Intel Processor N95-Intel Core i5 13450HX-Intel Core i5 13500HX-Intel Core i7 13650HX-Intel Celeron N5095- and 3 more

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
Base Clock 2017 MHz 350 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 750-1550 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170 16
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster —
L2 Cache 96MB shared —
Ray-tracing Cores 170 No
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 4
Shading Units 21760 128
Tensor Cores 680 No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 8

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
Bus 512-bit —
ECC 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 UHD Graphics (16 EU)
DirectX 11 341 FPS —
DirectX 12 179 FPS —
G2D Mark 1410 —
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s —

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
Die Size 750 mm² —
Fabrication Process 4 nm 10 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 Ring Bus
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
TGP 575 W 6-15 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 92.2 billion —
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² —

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Intel UHD Graphics (16 EU)
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 3-6 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 6-12 GTexel/s

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