GeForce RTX 5090 vs Radeon RX Vega 3

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking779not rated
Place by popularity85not in top-100
Power efficiency13.61no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code namePicassoGB202
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date6 January 2019 (5 years ago)2025

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 cores19221760
Core clock speed300 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed1001 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors4,940 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rate12.011,714
Floating-point processing power0.3844 TFLOPS109.7 TFLOPS
ROPs4192
TMUs12680
Tensor Coresno data680
Ray Tracing Coresno data170

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 5.0 x16
Lengthno data304 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR7
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared32 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared512 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1875 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1.52 TB/s
Shared memory+-

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-10.1

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 500 Watt

RX Vega 3 has 3233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 3 and GeForce RTX 5090. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 3 is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 5090 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 3
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