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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
32 GB VRAM575W TDP$1,999 MSRP2025
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs Apple M3 Ultra — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 hardware parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs Apple M3 Ultra. 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.
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Where to buy
Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | Apple M3 Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 32 | — |
| vram type | GDDR7 | — |
| tdp w | 575 | — |
| 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 | Apple M3 Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| Cinebench 2024 multi | — | 3,000 points |
| Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core | — | 3,000 points |
| Cinebench R23 multi | — | 46,243 points |
| Cinebench R23 single | — | 2,011 points |
| Geekbench 6 Metal (GPU) | — | 259,668 points |
| Geekbench 6 multi | — | 28,160 points |
| Geekbench 6 Multi-Core | — | 28,417 points |
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
Apple M3 Ultra
- llama3.1:8b: 128.2 tok/s
- deepseekr1:32b: 100.0 tok/s
- llama:7b: 92.1 tok/s
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