NVIDIA RTX 5090 Leaked Benchmarks Show 27% Gaming Performance Uplifts Without DLSS and up to 35% Improvements in Synthetic Tests
NVIDIA launched its GeForce RTX 50 series at CES, featuring the flagship GeForce RTX 5090 and other higher-end and upper-mid-range GPUs. NVIDIA claimed that the RTX 5090 can deliver up to two times the performance of the RTX 4090, but with DLSS 4.0 turned ON. The company didn’t reveal any numbers for native resolution or synthetic tests, which would provide us with a realistic performance gain over the RTX 4090.
Thankfully, there are two leaks, which show us the true capabilities of the RTX 5090. One is from Chiphell, revealing the synthetic performance of the GeForce RTX 5090. Keep in mind that it is stated as a rumor, so nothing is final yet. As tested in Speed Way, the RTX 5090 delivers a 34% performance uplift over the RTX 4090 with 13,500 points compared to 10,064 points by the RTX 4090. In the Time Spy Extreme test, the RTX 5090 delivers 24,000 points, which is a decent 23% uplift over the RTX 4090.
As far as gaming goes, the RTX 5090 delivers a similar performance uplift but only one of the benchmarks showed us the performance of the card on native resolution. As tested by Quasar Zone, the RTX 5090 delivers around a 27.5% uplift over the RTX 4090 in Far Cry 6 when Ray Tracing is enabled. Pure rasterization numbers aren’t revealed yet but we can see that enabling DLSS with full Ray Tracing yields roughly 2.5X the performance in games like Black Myth: Wukong. Other games like Alan Wak 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 also deliver 2.3-2.4X the performance of RTX 4090 with DLSS+Full RT. In A Plague Tale: Requiem, the RTX 5090 shows a 43.2% uplift with DLSS and RT.
The resolution selected for these games was 4K with all graphical presets at max. This is an ideal resolution for testing high-end GPUs like RTX 5090 and we can see that the GPU does deliver generational uplifts similar to the previous generation GPUs. Now we need pure raster benchmarks to see how fast the RTX 5090 is in comparison to the RTX 4090.
The RTX 5090 is priced at $400 higher than the RTX 4090. Considering that the RTX 5090 is roughly 23-35% faster at native resolution in gaming and synthetic benchmarks, the RTX 5090 is delivering a similar or a bit better price-to-performance ratio than the RTX 4090.
