Wednesday, January 22nd 2025
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 3DMark Performance Reveals Impressive Improvements
The RTX 50-series gaming GPUs have the gaming community divided. While some appreciate the DLSS 4 and MFG technologies driving impressive improvements in FPS through AI wizardry, others are left disappointed by the seemingly poor improvements in raw performance. For instance, when DLSS and MFG are taken out of the equation, the RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 are around 33%, 15%, and 20% faster than their predecessors respectively in gaming performance. That said, VideoCardz has tapped into its sources, and revealed the 3DMark scores for the RTX 5090 GPU, and the results certainly do appear to exceed expectations.
In the non-ray traced Steel Nomad test at 4K, the RTX 5090 managed to score around 14,133 points, putting it roughly 53% ahead of its predecessor. In the Port Royal test, which does utilize ray tracing, the RTX 5090 raked in 36,667 points - a 40% improvement over the RTX 4090. The results are much the same in the older Time Spy and Fire Strike tests as well, indicating at roughly a 31% and 38% jump in performance respectively. Moreover, according to the benchmarks, the RTX 5090 appears to be roughly twice as powerful as the RTX 4080 Super. Of course, synthetic benchmarks do not entirely dictate gaming performance, and VideoCardz clearly mentions that gaming performance (without MFG) will witness a substantially more modest improvement. There is no denying that Blackwell's vastly superior memory bandwidth is helping a lot with the synthetic tests, with the 33% extra shaders doing the rest of the work.
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VideoCardz
In the non-ray traced Steel Nomad test at 4K, the RTX 5090 managed to score around 14,133 points, putting it roughly 53% ahead of its predecessor. In the Port Royal test, which does utilize ray tracing, the RTX 5090 raked in 36,667 points - a 40% improvement over the RTX 4090. The results are much the same in the older Time Spy and Fire Strike tests as well, indicating at roughly a 31% and 38% jump in performance respectively. Moreover, according to the benchmarks, the RTX 5090 appears to be roughly twice as powerful as the RTX 4080 Super. Of course, synthetic benchmarks do not entirely dictate gaming performance, and VideoCardz clearly mentions that gaming performance (without MFG) will witness a substantially more modest improvement. There is no denying that Blackwell's vastly superior memory bandwidth is helping a lot with the synthetic tests, with the 33% extra shaders doing the rest of the work.
44 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 3DMark Performance Reveals Impressive Improvements
Don't forget:
"Across all 18 titles the GeForce RTX 4090 performed on average 77% faster than the GeForce RTX 3090, a 1.8X increase in 4K performance gen on gen."
"On average, gamers can expect about a 20% performance improvement over the RTX4090, according to reviewers we spoke with."
This is what I expect in tomorrow's TPU review. So for an inflated price of $3000 due to low supply, you get to dump 600W of dissipated heat right onto your CPU for a 20% fps improvement in raster.
75% increase in bandwidth oughta give an additional 10% to the framerates.
I just wish I found a model with 2x600w just to squeeze around 10% more performance.
Apparently a titan blackwell gpu is in the making - using the full die - but the price is going to be egregious (if it isn't already)
Today, we get a more expensive GPU with even more ridiculous power draw that is about as much faster. FPS/$ doesn't change to the better so what is there to be impressed with? nVidia are taking our quid for granted, this is what happens. Sure, 5090 will make 4090 look pathetic at AI workloads but that's the only field where you don't need a FPS counter to tell the difference between them.
They CAN do better, there's no physical evidence they can't. We haven't run out of nanometres. We haven't run out of silicon. Just why try harder when you can be king even without releasing anything?
That's not impressive at all. Maybe it's impressive marketing, ha!