Nvidia's RTX 50 series will debut with the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 starting January 30. While official reviews, including ours, are under embargo, a potential leak has surfaced that suggests a modest 30% improvement over the last generation. The RTX 5090 has reportedly been benchmarked in Geekbench 5 (via Benchleaks) using the CUDA API, likely by a reviewer who inadvertently made the test results public. As always, spread some salt over this leak, even though the performance claims are similar to what Nvidia has depicted in its slides.
The test bench features AMD's Zen 4-based Ryzen 9 7900X with 12 cores / 24 threads and an Asus ProArt X870E Creator WiFi motherboard. The system has 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory and uses Windows 11 Pro as the Operating System for this test. The benchmark was carried out using the CUDA API, the results of which are hard to come by as Geekbench does not publicly maintain a database for CUDA benchmarks.
