Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Compared 2 processors: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop, vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop and AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
213
142
118
87
The Witcher 3
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
208
183
139
72
Counter-Strike 2
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
302
208
149
81
Far Cry 6
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
172
148
133
83
Hogwarts Legacy
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
130
105
83
46
COD Modern Warfare 3
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
183
177
130
84
Ghost of Tsushima
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
131
111
91
55
Cyberpunk 2077
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
148
129
87
42
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
225
205
156
82
Avg FPS
1080p Highn/a190
1080p Ultran/a156
1440p Ultran/a121
4K Ultran/a70
Deviationn/aLow

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
25741
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
20263
Time Spyn/a20781
Solar Bayn/a86741
Port Royaln/a10519
Fire Striken/a57323
Night Raidn/a159759
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
226752
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
124121
Background Blur266.5 frames/s231.6 frames/s
Face Detection196.9 frames/s152.5 frames/s
Horizon Detection10.6 Gpix/sec4.26 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection15.2 Gpix/sec5.75 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur14.4 Gpix/sec5.87 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching1.89 Gpix/sec1.12 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching1150 Gpix/sec618.7 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics29783 fps17973.9 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
31796
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
26727
G2D Mark11991051
DirectX 11273 fps278 fps
DirectX 12142 fps113 fps
GPU Compute15940 Ops/s14962 Ops/s
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins (High 4K)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
266.7 fps
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
305.2 fps
Aztec Ruins (Normal)1121.9 fps1379.6 fps
Car Chase1058.2 fps1317.5 fps
Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p)921.3 fps1205.3 fps
T-Rex4280.4 fps4360 fps
ALU 2n/a6645 fps
Driver Overhead 2n/a325.2 fps
APIOpenGLOpenGL
OSWindowsWindows
Tessellationn/a3954.8

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer Nvidia AMD
Build Discrete Discrete
Announced January, 6, 2025 December, 8, 2020
Form Factor Laptop use PC use
Use case Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 2.0
Codename GB203-400 Navi 21
Price n/a 999

GPU

GPU Frequency 990-1515 MHz 1825 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 1515-2160 MHz 2250 MHz
Shader Units 10496 5120
TMUs 328 320
ROPs 128 128
Execution Units 82 n/a
Ray Tracing Cores 82 80
Tensor Cores 328 n/a
L1 cache 128 KB/core 128 KB/core
L2 cache 64 KB/core 4000 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 2 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 194-276 Gpix/sec 288 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 497-708 GTex/s 720 GTex/s
FLOPS 31.8-45.3 TFLOPS 23 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 95-175 W 300 W
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 4 nm 7 nm
Transistor Size 378 mm² 520 mm²
Transistor count 45.6 billion 26 billion
Transistor density 120.63 MTr/mm² 50 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory Frequency 1750 MHz 2000 MHz
Bus 256 bit 256 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 MB/s 16000 MB/s
Memory Size 24 GB 16 GB
Max Throughput
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
811.5 GB/s
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
512 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA 10.1 n/a
DisplayPort 2.1a 1.4a
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 No

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop the clear winner in this comparison.

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