NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB. Release years: 2023, 2025. MSRP range: $1,999 · $15,000. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Where to buy
Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 32 | 192 |
| vram type | GDDR7 | — |
| tdp w | 575 | 750 |
| cuda cores | 21760 | — |
| process nm | — | 5 |
Synthetic benchmarks
Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.
| Benchmark | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Port Royal | 45,808 points | — |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 16,532 points | — |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 11,906 points | — |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad (4K) | 14,133 points | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 46,229 points | — |
| Geekbench 6 OpenCL | — | 379,660 points |
| Geekbench 6.3.0 OpenCL | — | 379,660 points |
| MLPerf Inference v4.1 — Llama-2-70B Server (8x MI300X) | — | 22,021 tokens/s |
| MLPerf Inference v4.1 — Llama-3.1-405B Server (8x MI300X) | — | 24,110 tokens/s |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 1,412 pts | — |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 38,935 pts | — |
| Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy | 2 rank | — |
AI inference (tokens/sec)
Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
- Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct: 5841.0 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B FP8: 420.0 tok/s
- Llama 2 7B: 263.6 tok/s
AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB
- llama2:70b: 22021.0 tok/s
- deepseek-r1:671b: 21224.6 tok/s
- deepseek-r1:671b: 21224.0 tok/s
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