GeForce RTX 5090 SE: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 5090 SE sales on 2026 at a recommended price of $1,499. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Blackwell 2.0 architecture and made with 5 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 24 GB of GDDR7 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1.34 TB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 5.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 16-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 500 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 5090 SE: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 (2025−2026) | |
| GPU code name | GB202 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 2026 (recently) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1,499 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce RTX 5090 SE's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 5090 SE's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 14080 | of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Core clock speed | 1740 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 2377 MHz | of 3130 MHz (Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB) |
| Number of transistors | 92,200 million | of 670,000 million (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 5 nm | of 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 500 Watt | of 3600 Watt (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Texture fill rate | 1,045.9 | of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Floating-point processing power | 66.94 TFLOPS | of 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| ROPs | 160 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 440 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Tensor Cores | 440 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 110 | of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| L1 Cache | 13.8 MB | of 112 MB (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L2 Cache | 96 MB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 5090 SE and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 16-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 5090 SE: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR7 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 24 GB | of 432 GB (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | of 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Memory clock speed | 1750 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1.34 TB/s | of 3,277 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Resizable BAR | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 5090 SE. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1b | |
| HDMI | + |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce RTX 5090 SE, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.9 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | |
| CUDA | 12.0 | |
| DLSS | + |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 5090 SE is Radeon RX 7900 XTX.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce RTX 5090 SE according to our statistics.
