Palit GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Palit GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock has 21760 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.41 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 104.80 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition has 10496 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.70 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 35.58 TFLOPS.

GPU

The Palit GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock is equipped with a graphics chip of the Blackwell architecture, which has 170 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition is based on the Ampere architecture and is equipped with 82 execution units.
Palit GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
GB202-300-A1 GPU Chip GA102-300-A1
Blackwell Architecture Ampere
170 Streaming Multiprocessors 82
21760 Shader 10496
176 Render Output Units 112
680 Texture Units 328
170 Raytracing Cores 82

Memory

The Palit GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock is equipped with a 32 GB large GDDR7 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition has a 24 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.219GHz.

32 GB Memory Size 24 GB
GDDR7 Memory Type GDDR6X
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.219 GHz
28.0 Gbps Memory Speed 19.5 Gbps
1792 GB/s Memory bandwidth 936 GB/s
512 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The Palit GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock has a turbo clock of 2.407 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition is 1.695 GHz.

2.017 GHz Base Clock 1.395 GHz
2.407 GHz Boost Clock 1.695 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Palit GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock has 1 x 16-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 90 °C.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

575 W TDP 350 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
1 x 16-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Palit GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock are cooled with a Air cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 110 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 37 dB

Connectivity

The Palit GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The Palit GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

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

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

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

Dimensions

The Palit GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock is 70 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition is 70 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

332 mm Length 313 mm
150 mm Height 138 mm
70 mm Width --
4 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 5 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

Manufactured using the 5 nanometer process, Palit GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock was released in Q1/2025.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition published in Q3/2020 is manufactured with a structure width of 8 nanometers.

NE75090019R5-GB2020G Part-no 900-1G136-2510-000
Q1/2025 Release date Q3/2020
2,329 $ (Reference) Launch Price 1,499 $
5 nm Structure size 8 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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

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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