NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5090D have finally been tested in Blender, revealing the flagship Blackwell GPU’s capabilities in rendering scenarios.
NVIDIA’s flagship RTX Blackwell GPU is here, and you can see a big difference in rendering performance compared to the previous generation
Now, as we get closer to the official launch of Team Green’s RTX 50 series SKUs, we are starting to see leaks surface online revealing the performance of certain models, including the high-end variants. Fortunately, Blender benchmarks have revealed the performance of these SKUs, giving you an idea of what you can expect from GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5090D for professional workloads, especially when it comes to rendering. . It’s a huge step forward between generations.
Starting with the GeForce RTX 5090, the GPU managed to get a median score of 17822.17. This represents an almost 30% difference from the previous generation flagship model, the GeForce RTX 4090. Additionally, the RTX 5090D offers approximately 28% performance improvement over the GeForce RTX 4090, which is significant. Interestingly, this also reveals that the performance of GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5090D may not be completely equivalent, or at least not the conclusion of the Blender benchmark.
Well, just recently, the GeForce RTX 5090 was tested within Geekbench OpenCL and Vulkan API, offering up to 37% faster performance than the RTX 4090. This translates to an average of 30% to 40% difference in performance within the flagship model, depending on your workload and environment. Again, this is just an estimate at this point, and real-time numbers may change once SKUs and review embargoes are known.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU will be available in just a few weeks and will be the fastest card in the RTX 50 “Blackwell” Gaming lineup, with an MSRP of $1,999. In addition to this, a “China compliant” replacement, the GeForce RTX 5090D, will also be launched, hoping to tap into the Chinese market.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 GPU specifications (preliminary):
Graphics Card Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TiNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 TiNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 GPU Name Blackwell GB202-300Blackwell GB203-400Blackwell GB203-300-A1 Blackwell GB205-300-A1 Blackwell GB206?Blackwell GB206? GPU SM170 (192 full)84 (84 full)70 (84 full)50 (50 SM full)TBDTBD GPU number of cores21760 (+33 %)10752 (+11%)8960 (+16%)6144TBDTBD Clock speed2.41 GHz2.62 GHz2.45 GHz2.51 GHzTBDTBD L2 cache TBDTBDTBDTBDTBDTBD Memory capacity32 GB GDDR7 (+33%)16 GB GDDR7 (0%)16 GB GDDR712 GB GDDR716 GB GDDR78 GB GDDR7 Memory bus512 bit (+33%)256 bit (0%)256 bit (0%)192 – bit (0%)128 bit (0%)128 bit (0%)Memory speed28 Gbps30 Gbps28 Gbps28 Gbps28 Gbps?28 Gbps?Bandwidth1792 GB/s960 GB/s896 GB/s672 GB/s448 GB/s448 GB/s TBP575W (+27%)360W (+12.5%)300W (+10.5%)250W (+14%)TBDTBD Power Interface1 12V-2×6 (16 pin)1 12V- 2×6 (16 pin)1 12V-2×6 (16 pin)1 12VHPWR (16 pin)1 12VHPWR (16 pin)1 12VHPWR (16 pin) Release January 2025 January 2025 February 2025 February 2025 March-April 2025 March 2025 ~April Price $1999 US$999 US$749 US$549 USTBDTBD
