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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
32 GB VRAM575W TDP$1,999 MSRP2025
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs Radeon RX 9070 XT — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs Radeon RX 9070 XT. All released in 2025. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
*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 | Radeon RX 9070 XT |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 32 | 16 |
| vram type | GDDR7 | GDDR6 |
| tdp w | 575 | 304 |
| cuda cores | 21760 | — |
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 | Radeon RX 9070 XT |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike | — | 66,762 pts |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme | — | 33,887 pts |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 45,808 points | 18,240 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 16,532 points | 6,267 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 11,906 points | 7,025 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad (4K) | 14,133 points | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 46,229 points | 29,716 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | — | 14,367 points |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 1,412 pts | 1,318 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 38,935 pts | 26,908 pts |
| Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy | 2 rank | 719 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
Radeon RX 9070 XT
- qwen3:8b: 711.0 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1.5B: 163.0 tok/s
- llama2:7b: 137.1 tok/s
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