Key Takeaways
1. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090D achieved an impressive average score of 45,948 on PassMark, outperforming both the RTX 5090 and RTX 4090 in benchmarks.
2. The RTX 5090D has modified specifications for the Chinese market, featuring lower AI performance (2,375 AI TOPS) compared to the international RTX 5090 (3,352 AI TOPS).
3. Despite potential performance issues due to software compatibility, the RTX 5090D showed a +19.6% improvement over the RTX 4090 in overall benchmarks and a +102.7% increase in DirectX 12 tests.
4. Comparisons are primarily made with the RTX 4090 instead of the RTX 4090D due to limited sample sizes for the latter, leading to less reliable performance data.
5. Evidence suggests that the RTX 5090D sample may have been overclocked, achieving higher scores in additional benchmarks compared to the standard RTX 5090.
Team Green has been under a lot of criticism lately for various reasons, but a recently tested Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090D (known as the “5090 D”) has shown impressive results on PassMark that should bring a smirk to Jensen Huang’s face. This graphics card, which is exclusively available in China, achieved an average score of 45,948 and reached 304 FPS in the site’s DirectX 12 test. For comparison, the next two best performers, the RTX 5090 and RTX 4090, scored 39,209 with 212 FPS and 38,430 with 150 FPS, respectively.
Specifications Overview
The GeForce RTX 5090D is Nvidia’s take on the standard RTX 5090, with minor modifications to allow it to be sold in China without attracting US backlash. The core specifications, such as the number of CUDA cores and memory setup, remain unchanged, but the RTX 5090D has a limited AI performance of 2,375 AI TOPS, while the international model boasts 3,352 AI TOPS (TOPS refers to trillions of operations per second). Even though the RTX 5090D is not as advanced in AI compared to the RTX 5090, it has still managed to perform exceptionally well in the G3D Mark benchmark.
Performance Insights
Additionally, it’s been pointed out that PassMark may have unintentionally reduced the performance of Blackwell cards due to compatibility issues with a software layer (specifically, Nvidia’s removal of 32-bit framework support). While the site works on a patch to address this, it’s likely that RTX 50-series cards will keep facing challenges. However, the regular RTX 5090 has successfully surpassed the RTX 4090 in the rankings, and the RTX 5090D has exceeded expectations as well. The Blackwell card registered a +19.6% improvement over the RTX 4090 in the overall benchmark and an incredible +102.7% increase over the Ada Lovelace card in the DirectX 12 test.
Deliberate Comparisons
The choice to compare with the RTX 4090, instead of the RTX 4090D, is intentional. Only nine samples of the China-only Ada Lovelace card have been evaluated on the site, compared to more than 14,500 for the standard RTX 4090, yielding significantly lower results: Overall – 28,686, DirectX 12 – 128 FPS. The GeForce RTX 5090D sample likely underwent overclocking, as there is evidence of this from a video shared by Tony Yu of Asus, showcasing a modified RTX 5090D card achieving 43,372 points in 3DMark Port Royal. In our analysis of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 FE, the 3DMark Port Royal score was 37,335 points, indicating that the overclocked RTX 5090D has a +16.2% advantage.
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