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
I’ll wait for either at RTX 5090ti(that actually pushes rasterization and just RT) or wait for the RTX 6090The “Apple” tactic but since it’s Nvidia, they get a pass…
I personally am looking forward to the 5090 release not only because of gaming enhancements. We get new tools for video editing and a boost in speed from 32gb of GDDR7 memory. Handling huge videos will be a breeze. The 4090 was extremely impressive and the 5090 will be more efficient for many tasks. These cards are also a great investment. I sold both of my 4090s for $1,400 each card. An approximate 70% or more return to invest in new hardware is excellent in my opinion.
I will make my purchases early in the morning. I'm excited to put these cards to use. I wish I could use my existing Lian Li Strimer Plus V2 cables. I purchased these cables for both of my systems but of course they are 12VHPWR. These cables were over 40 bucks a piece LOL.
The 4090 has ~56% more CUDA Cores, ~48% Higher Core clocks, ~7,7% more Memory Bandwidth (GDDR6X) and 12x more L2 Cache than the 3090 (72MB vs 6MB) !
The 5090 has ~33% more CUDA Cores, ~4,4% Lower Core clocks, ~77,7% more Memory Bandwidth (GDDR7) and ~22% more L2 Cache than the 4090 (88MB vs 72MB)
Unless NVIDIA was able to make the CUDA Cores IPC on Blackwell 40-50% higher than on Lovelace, the same performance jump was never going to happen!