GeForce RTX 5090 vs H100 CNX
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 2 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | 13 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | no data | 10.89 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 12.02 |
| Architecture | Hopper (2022−2024) | Blackwell 2.0 (2025) |
| GPU code name | GH100 | GB202 |
| Market segment | Workstation | Desktop |
| Release date | 21 March 2023 (1 year ago) | 30 January 2025 (less than a year ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | no data | $1,999 |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 14592 | 21760 |
| Core clock speed | 690 MHz | 2017 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1845 MHz | 2407 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 80,000 million | 92,200 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 350 Watt | 575 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 841.3 | 1,637 |
| Floating-point processing power | 53.84 TFLOPS | 104.8 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 24 | 176 |
| TMUs | 456 | 680 |
| Tensor Cores | 456 | 680 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | no data | 170 |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| Length | 267 mm | 304 mm |
| Width | 2-slot | 2-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | 8-pin EPS | 1x 16-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | HBM2e | GDDR7 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 80 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory bus width | 5120 Bit | 512 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1593 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 2,039 GB/s | 1.79 TB/s |
| Resizable BAR | + | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.
| Display Connectors | No outputs | 1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1b |
| HDMI | - | + |
API and SDK compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | N/A | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | N/A | 6.8 |
| OpenGL | N/A | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.4 |
| CUDA | 9.0 | 10.1 |
| DLSS | + | + |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 21 March 2023 | 30 January 2025 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 80 GB | 32 GB |
| Chip lithography | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 350 Watt | 575 Watt |
H100 CNX has a 150% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 25% more advanced lithography process, and 64.3% lower power consumption.
RTX 5090, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.
We couldn't decide between H100 CNX and GeForce RTX 5090. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that H100 CNX is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 5090 is a desktop one.
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