GeForce RTX 5090: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 5090 sales on 2025. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Blackwell 2.0 architecture and made with 0 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 32 GB of GDDR7 memory clocked at 2.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 320.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a triple-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 5.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 304 mm. 1x 16-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 500 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 5090: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 (2025) | |
| GPU code name | GB202 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 2025 (recently) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce RTX 5090's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 5090's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 21760 | |
| Core clock speed | 2235 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Boost clock speed | 2520 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 0 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 500 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 1,714 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 109.7 TFLOPS | |
| ROPs | 192 | |
| TMUs | 680 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Tensor Cores | 680 | of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 170 |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 5090 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | |
| Length | 304 mm | |
| Width | 3-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 16-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 5090: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR7 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 32 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 512 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2500 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 320.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 5090. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a | |
| HDMI | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce RTX 5090, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.8 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | |
| CUDA | 9.1 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 5090 is RTX 5880 Ada Generation.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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