GeForce RTX 5090 Only offers A 20% Improvement Over Its Predecessor

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RTX 4090 Offered 50% Improvement Over 3090!

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  • The GeForce RTX 5090 is expected to offer roughly a 20% performance boost over the RTX 4090 in gaming. 
  • In tests like ray tracing, TimeSpy, and FireStrike, the RTX 5090 outperforms the RTX 4090 by significant margins. 
  • The new Blackwell architecture may not deliver the same performance uplift as the previous Ada Lovelace architecture.

A few reviewers have recently finished testing the GeForce RTX 5090 in synthetic benchmarks, and Videocardz has collected their findings. This compares the RTX 5090 and 4090 in games with identical configurations.

While the data is reliable, synthetic benchmarks typically show higher performance gains than real-world gaming.  According to the reviewers, gamers should anticipate a performance boost of roughly 20% over the RTX 4090.

Why it matters: Synthetic benchmark results provide information on the expected performance improvements of the upcoming RTX 5090, which could help users make informed decisions when considering an upgrade.

Source: Videocardz

In synthetic benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5090 scored 46% higher in the ray tracing test, 33% higher in TimeSpy, and 36% higher in FireStrike compared to the GeForce RTX 4090.

Furthermore, the official 3DMark scores for the GeForce RTX 4090, 4080S, and Radeon RX 7900XTX were included to ensure that this data is as comparable as possible.

This should help you get a sense of what the RTX 5090 is capable of compared to the current generation. However, don’t expect the new Blackwell architecture to show similar performance gains as Ada Lovelace.

The current flagship GeForce RTX 4090 on average is about 50% better than the GeForce RTX 3090 in rasterization. Keeping that in mind Nvidia Blackwell might be the worst generational upgrade since Turing. 

The performance gain of the 5090 might also give us an idea about other cards in the GeForce RTX 50 lineup. Though, it’s not looking good for anyone looking to upgrade over the last generation. 

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