Compute and AI Benchmarks
Now some people don’t need a video card for gaming, they need the processing power for rendering or 2D/3D production, or in some cases, people who game also do work on the side. AI performance importance has increased quickly recently as well. So it is also important to check out the compute and AI performance on all of the video cards that come in. That includes doing a few different tests. My first test would normally be Passmark Performance Test 11’s compute test but the OpelCL issues caused problems there so our first was today is Geekbench AI. The RTX 5090 is sitting up at the top of the chart in all three of the results but the half-precision score is especially impressive sitting at 69957, a 45% improvement over the RTX 4090.
Blender is always my favorite compute benchmark because the open-source 3D rendering software is very popular and it isn’t a synthetic benchmark. With the latest version of Blender, they redid the benchmark so we now have a new test that runs three different renderings and gives each a score. I have all three stacked together so we can see the overall performance. The RTX 5090 Founders Edition is up top of the chart. It was 33% faster than the 4090 in two of the three results and 45% higher on the third.
For CUDA-based cards, I also check out V-Ray Benchmark 5 to check out CUDA and RTX performance in the 3D rendering and simulation software. The RTX 5090 outperformed the 4090’s RTX score with its CUDA score to put things into perspective. Overall it improved in the 4090’s performance by 29% in the CUDA test and 28% in the RTX tests.