Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090
There’s anew king in town, same as the last, says Jarred Walton.
SPECS
Arch: GB202
Tech: TSMC 4N
Trans: 92 billion
SMs: 170
Shaders: 21,760
AI cores: 680
RT cores: 170
Clock:
2,407MHz
VRAM: 32GB,
28Gb/s,
512 bits
Cache: 96MB
ROP: 176
Texture units: 680
TFLOPS: 104 FP32,
838 FP16,
3,352 FP8/4
Bandwidth:
1,792GB/s
TBP: 575 watts
The raw specs alone give a hint at the performance potential of the RTX 5090. It has 33% more Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs) than the previous generation RTX 4090, just over double the SMs of the 3090, and 2.5 times as many SMs as the RTX 2080 Ti that kicked off the ray-tracing and AI GPU brouhaha. Just as important, it has 33% more VRAM than the 4090, and the GDDR7 runs 33% faster than the GDDR6X memory used on the 4090, yielding a 78% increase in memory bandwidth.