Synthetic Benchmarks

As always I like to start my testing with a few synthetic benchmarks. 3DMark especially is one of my favorites because it is very optimized in both Nvidia and AMD drivers. It's nice to not have to worry about it being favored too much either way and the repeatability of the results makes it a nice chance to compare from card to card, especially when comparing with the same GPU. With this being the first GPU in Nvidia’s new 50 Series of GPUs when doing our testing today I am most interested to see how the RTX 5090 Founders Edition compares to Nvidia’s previous flagship with the RTX 4090 as well as AMDs RX 7900 XTX as well.

The first round of tests was done in the older Fire Strike benchmark which is a DX11 test. There are three detail levels, performance, extreme, and ultra. The RTX 5090 Founders Edition changes the scale of our charts here and is sitting WAY out in front of the RTX 4090 and everything else tested. It was a 33% improvement in Fire Strike, 44% in Fire Strike Extreme, and 30% in Fire Strike Ultra.

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The next two were both based on the Time Spy benchmark. One is the standard test and then there is the extreme detail level. The RTX 5090 Founders Edition is once again way out in front here. Both tests show its performance up 33% over the RTX 4090 putting a big gap in between them and thinking ahead at other upcoming Nvidia GPUs it does make me wonder if the 5080 and maybe the 5070 Ti will fill in that gap or come in behind the 4090.

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I did also test using the new 3DMark Speed Way which is their latest benchmark. Speed Way is DX12 as well but combines more future-focused tech like Ray Tracing which up until its release where only used in feature tests, not full benchmarks. The RTX 5090 Founders Edition scored a 14457 and was 42% ahead of the RTX 4090 in Speed Way. The Port Royal benchmark is similar as well, also including ray tracing and it was 42% in that test as well.

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The last test is the newer 3Dmark Steel Nomad benchmark. Officially this is the replacement for the Time Spy benchmark. It is a DX12 benchmark and doesn’t include ray tracing but is updated to better take advantage of modern cards. The RTX 5090 Founders Edition scored a 14194 here and this is the biggest gap between it and the RTX 4090 from all of the 3Dmark tests with an improvement of almost 54%.

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