- Nvidia’s fastest GPU is not surprising and hungry, just like his predecessor
- It is also extremely fast and leaves the fastest GPU RTX 4090 and AMD, well behind
- The first landmarks show that there is much more potential once drivers and updates are deployed
The latest flagship GPU of Nvidia, the GeForce RTX 5090, was announced at CES 2025 and has just been sold, although Nvidia warned that it expects to sell quickly. Built on the Blackwell architecture, the RTX 5090 is a successor to the RTX 4090, and has 32 GB of VRAM, an increase in the number of Cuda nuclei and an improved memory bandwidth.
Puget Systems, which previously tested the GeForce RTX 4090, has just compared the RTX 5090 on various creative applications, including Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Davinci Resolve and as you can expect, the results were impressive.
In Premiere Pro, Puget Systems found that RTX 5090 was slightly faster than RTX 4090 about 9% in terms of overall performance. In the Davinci Resolve Studio of Blackmagic, the GPU had an advance of 17% out of the 4090 and 35% compared to the 3090 TI. Puget, however, noted that the “5090 was executed on a slightly different version of resolve than the rest of the cards – a review version designed to be entirely compatible with card 50 and that we plan to be incorporated into the application in the A close future.
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Adobe After Effects also benefits from the increase in the power of RTX 5090.
According to Puget Systems, the GPU recorded a “massive improvement in Gen-on-Gen compared to the RTX 4090” in 3D rendering tasks, making it a solid choice for professionals in the animated graphics. Elsewhere, the UNREAL Engine landmarks suggest that the RTX 5090 leads the RTX 4090 17% overall. In rendering applications such as Blender and V-Ray, “the RTX 5090 is a huge 38% faster than the 4090 and three times faster than the 3090 TI.”
The RTX 5090 has outperformed the fastest AMD consumption GPU, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, on several tests, although the AMD card has been faced with certain challenges. In Adobe After Effects, Puget Systems observed that the 7900 XTX “is currently struggling with the” 3D advance “rendering, with the 7900 XTX half as fast as even the 2080 Ti.” It was a similar story in Unreal Engine where “AMD is struggling with the tracing of the shelves, seeing a much larger drop in performance than Nvidia when activating functionality.”
Despite solid references, there are a few first problems in software compatibility. Puget Systems noted that “RTX 5090 is currently not supported in the Redshift (Cinebench) or Octanebench and has known performance problems in the Cuda de V-ray rendering. Nvidia should solve these problems with future pilot updates.
With a launch price of $ 2,000, the RTX 5090 is obviously positioned as a premium option for users who need the highest level of performance. As Puget Systems concludes, “if you need the most powerful consumption GPU ever done, that’s all.”
