RTX 5090 vs RTX 4090: Questionable RTX 5090 rasterization performance surfaces alongside notable ray tracing gain

[Redaktion]

A couple of synthetic benchmark results of the RTX 5090 have surfaced online. While the flagship Blackwell GPU reportedly outruns the RTX 4090 in ray tracing by a double-digit margin, the pure rasterization performance gain looks comparatively less impressive.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/RTX-5090-vs-RTX-4090-Questionable-RTX-5090-rasterization-performance-surfaces-alongside-notable-ray-tracing-gain.943815.0.html

[Matheus]

Dude WTF. The 4090 FE (STOCK) does 19000 on TSE and 9950 on SpeedWay. You can't look at the extrme overclocks leaderboard to compare it with a stock 5090.

[PHVM_BR]

Dude WTF. The 4090 FE (STOCK) does 19000 on TSE and 9950 on SpeedWay. You can't look at the extrme overclocks leaderboard to compare it with a stock 5090.

Exactly!

[Anti-propaganda man]

50 gen is only good for AI on new titles with frame gen and DLSS. Frame gen is garbage anyway as your mouse/controller inputs are only reflected in the games base fps. a 60 fps game running at fake 120 feels totally different to a true 120 fps game. 50 series has 30% more power draw for 30% more real frames... so buy a higher spec 40 series gpu instead. They will be cheaper.

[Wtf]

Dude WTF. The 4090 FE (STOCK) does 19000 on TSE and 9950 on SpeedWay. You can't look at the extrme overclocks leaderboard to compare it with a stock 5090.

Yea this article needs to use stock non-overclocked 4090 numbers

[Vert]

The fact that, even overclocked, a 4090 can get fairly close to a stock 5090 is proof enough that the successor isn't much of an upgrade.

The only real improvements come from a software lock (DLSS 4 exclusively on 50 series). There doesn't appear to be any reason why the 40 series couldn't run it too aside from "we can't sell the new cards otherwise".