NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
vs
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (Blackwell) and has 32 GB GDDR7 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 1792 GB/s.

The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada is based on the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada (Ada Lovelace) and has 48 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 960 GB/s.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition has the GB202-300-A1 graphics chip installed, which is based on the Blackwell architecture.

The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada is based on the graphics chip AD102, which comes from the Ada Lovelace architecture.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPU NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Based on NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada
GB202-300-A1 GPU Chip AD102
Blackwell Architecture Ada Lovelace
170 Streaming Multiprocessors 142
21760 Shader 18176
176 Render Output Units 192
680 Texture Units 568
170 Raytracing Cores 142

Memory

The graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition clocks at 1.750 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 28.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada is 20.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 2.500 GHz.

32 GB Memory Size 48 GB
GDDR7 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.500 GHz
28.0 Gbps Memory Speed 20.0 Gbps
1792 GB/s Memory bandwidth 960 GB/s
512 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

2.017 GHz Base Clock 2.175 GHz
2.407 GHz Boost Clock 2.535 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is powered by 1 x 16-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 575 W.

The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada has 1 x 16-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 300 W (Reference).

575 W TDP 300 W (Reference)
600 W TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
1 x 16-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 16-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.

The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada has 1 Radial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 110 mm Fan 1 1 x 70 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition.

The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.1b HDMI Ports --
3x DP v2.1b DP Ports 4x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

With the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode AV1 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is connected to the system via PCIe 5 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 4.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

304 mm Length 267 mm
137 mm Height 112 mm
40 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 5 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16
Yes SFF-Ready No

Additional data

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition has been manufactured with a structure width of 5 nanometers since Q1/2025.

The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada came on the market in Q1/2023 and will have a structure width of 5 nanometers manufactured.

-- Part-no --
Q1/2025 Release date Q1/2023
2,329 $ (Reference) Launch Price 6,799 $ (Reference)
5 nm Structure size 5 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Steel Nomad Light Graphics score

Steel Nomad Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Solar Bay (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada
48 GB GDDR6
81 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

1920x1080 (1080p)

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada
48 GB GDDR6
200 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada
48 GB GDDR6
290282

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada
48 GB GDDR6
236468

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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