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Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada vs GeForce RTX 5090

Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
VS
GeForce RTX 5090
Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
AD102
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090
GB202-300

We compared two discrete desktop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada 48 GB with 142 pipelines and 18176 shaders against the 2 years and 1 month newer GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB that utilizes 170 pipelines and 21760 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments (1)

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
48 GB GDDR6
VS
32 GB GDDR7
4.7
(Bad)
Value Index
19.6
(Bad)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 5090 over RTX 6000 Ada
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada
  • Includes 16 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5090
  • Performs significantly better (up to 63%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 39% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 207 vs 149 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • 15% higher maximum theoretical performance (104.8 vs 91.1 TFLOPS)
  • Has 87% higher memory bandwidth: 1792 vs 960 GB/s
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 6000 Ada
vs
RTX 5090

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
231
168
153
125
336
247
233
187
The Witcher 3
246
212
152
80
364
327
237
123
Counter-Strike 2
313
219
173
83
363
265
202
99
Far Cry 6
175
160
148
91
237
202
190
121
Hogwarts Legacy
164
137
108
60
249
199
166
97
CoD: Modern Warfare III
220
214
174
116
334
322
260
184
Ghost of Tsushima
148
124
110
68
221
185
175
113
Cyberpunk 2077
196
172
123
58
261
233
160
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
287
267
201
109
329
302
238
128
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 220 299
1080p Ultra 186 254
1440p Ultra 149 207
4K Ultra 88 125
Margin of Error High Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RTX 6000 Ada
32284
RTX 5090 +63%
52764
Time Spy 26529 46873
Solar Bay 145429 236689
Port Royal 19497 38202
Fire Strike 62803 87569
Wild Life Extreme 53640 108751
Night Raid 148225 206648
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 6000 Ada
389848
RTX 5090 +8%
419309
Background Blur 618.3 img/sec 333 img/sec
Face Detection 399.9 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 15.1 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 22.1 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 26.3 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 2.33 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 2210 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 53494.5 FPS 59146.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 6000 Ada
28763
RTX 5090 +36%
38988
G2D Mark 1008 1410
DirectX 11 284 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 102 FPS 179 FPS
GPU Compute 22495 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 273 & 10378 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 6000 Ada
11087.8
RTX 5090 +36%
15058.41
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 113 & 3165 samples
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RTX 6000 Ada
37270
RTX 5090 +45%
53861
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 6000 Ada
53469
RTX 5090 +52%
81080
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 6000 Ada
27850
RTX 5090 +40%
38938
Image Classification (SP) 13367 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 32477 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 42056 58478
Face Detection (HP) 69004 114685
Pose Estimation (Q) 230965 344729
Text Classification (SP) 3491 4464
Machine Translation (HP) 5545 8184
Object Detection (SP) 18668 27802
Depth Estimation (Q) 68370 85572
Style Transfer (SP) 520389 687080
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada and GeForce RTX 5090

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released December 3, 2022 January 7, 2025
Launch price (MSRP) $6800 $1999
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Professional Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture Ada Lovelace Blackwell 2.0
GPU Codename AD102 GB202-300
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i9 14900K or above - Intel Core Ultra 9 285K or above
Desktop GPU rating (5th and 2nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 915 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 2505 MHz 2407 MHz
Shading Units 18176 21760
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 568 680
Render Output Units (ROPs) 192 176
Compute Units (Pipelines) 142 170
Tensor Cores 568 680
Ray-tracing Cores 142 170
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 96MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 481 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1423 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 6000 Ada
91.1 TFLOPS
RTX 5090 +15%
104.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 300 W 575 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
Die Size 609 mm² 750 mm²
Transistor Count 76 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 124.79 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7
Memory Size 48 GB 32 GB
Memory Clock 2500 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Bus 384-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 6000 Ada
960 GB/s
RTX 5090 +87%
1792 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.9 12.0
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 4
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b

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ComputerNerd March 26, 2026 at 07:07 PM
On paper, the Nvidia RTX 5090 should be better. However, the 575 TGP causes cables to burn if someone or Nvidia doesn't nurf it. Whereas the Nvidia RTX 6000 ada has 300 TGP.
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