- Nvidia’s fastest GPU is surprisingly expensive and power hungry, just as its predecessor
- It is also extremely fast and leaves RTX 4090 and AMD’s fastest GPU, well backwards
- Early benchmarks show that there is far more potential when drivers and updates are rolled out
Nvidia’s latest flagship GPU, GeForce RTX 5090, was announced on CES 2025 and has just gone on sale, although Nvidia has warned that it expects to sell out quickly. The RTX 5090 is built on the Blackwell architecture and is a successor of the RTX 4090 and has 32 GB of VRAM, increased cuda core counts and improved memory width.
Puget Systems, previously tested GeForce RTX 4090, has just the benchmark RTX 5090 across various creative applications, including Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Davinci Resole and as you would expect, the results were impressive.
In Premiere Pro, Puget Systems found that the RTX 5090 was a little faster than the RTX 4090 with approx. 9% with regard to the total benefit. In Blackmagic’s Davinci Resolve Studio, GPU had a 17% lead over 4090 and 35% over 3090 ten. However, Puget noted that “5090 was run on a slightly different version of determination than the rest of the cards – a review version designed to be fully compatible with the 50 -series card and which we expect to be incorporated into the application in the near future. “
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Adobe After Effects also benefits from the increased effect in the RTX 5090.
According to Puget Systems, GPU registered a “massive 35% gene-gen improvement compared to RTX 4090” in 3D reproduction tasks, making it a solid choice for professionals in movement graphics. Elsewhere, Unreal Engine Benchmarks suggests that the RTX 5090 leads RTX 4090 by 17% overall. In rendering applications such as blender and V-ray, the “RTX 5090 is a massive 38% faster than 4090 and three times as fast as 3090 ten.”
RTX 5090 exceeded AMD’s fastest consumer GPU, Radeon RX 7900 XTX, across several tests, although AMD’s cards faced some challenges. In Adobe After Effects, Puget Systems observed that 7900 XTX “Currently struggling with the ‘Advanced 3D’ rendering, with the 7900 XTX half as fast as even 2080 ten.” It was a similar story in Unreal Engine, where “AMD struggles with beam pores and sees a much larger fall of performance than Nvidia when you activate the feature.”
Despite the solid benchmarks, there are some early software compatibility problems. Puget Systems noted that “Currently, RTX 5090 is not supported in either red change (Cinebench) or Octanebench” and has known performance problems in V-ray’s Cuda rendering. Nvidia is expected to solve these problems with future driver updates.
With a launch price of $ 2,000, the RTX 5090 is obviously placed as a premium option for users who need the highest level of performance. As Puget Systems finishes, “If you need the most powerful consumer GPU has ever made, this is it.”
