Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse vs MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio

AMD

Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse

Overall performance index

46,2

Rank 12 of 30 tested cards

Faster

NVIDIA

MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio

Overall performance index

100,0

Rank 1 of 30 tested cards

MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio is 53,8% faster on average

Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio

Individual tests: Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse wins 3, MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio wins 38 (41 shared tests)

Performance by resolution

Full HD (1080p) +39,3 % 88,0fps 145,0fps 4K without ray tracing +54,2 % 71,0fps 155,0fps 4K with ray tracing +54,9 % 60,0fps 133,0fps 8K +63,8 % 51,0fps 141,0fps

Game benchmarks

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Avg. Full HD (1080p) – all tested cards

MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio +64,8 %

Individual results (22 tests)

3D Mark Fire Strike Extreme Graphic Score 30.232 Punkte 62.516 Punkte +106,8 %

3D Mark Fire Strike Ultra Graphic Score 15.218 Punkte 32.976 Punkte +116,7 %

3D Mark Port Royal v1.32560x1440 15.263 Punkte 38.105 Punkte +149,7 %

3D Mark Port Royal v1.32560x1440 70,7 fps 176,4 fps +149,7 %

3D Mark SpeedWay2560x1440,DX12 Ultimate,fps 56,0 fps 149,1 fps +166,0 %

3D Mark SpeedWay2560x1440,DX12 Ultimate,Score 5.602 Punkte 14.906 Punkte +166,1 %

3D Mark Time Spy Extreme Graphic Score 12.396 Punkte 26.060 Punkte +110,2 %

Black Myth Wukong Benchmark1920x1080, Cinematic,100%, DLSS/FSR, No FrameGeneration,No Raytracing 60,0 fps 110,0 fps +83,3 %

Black Myth Wukong Benchmark1920x1080, Cinematic,100%, DLSS/FSR, No FrameGeneration,Raytracing-Very-High 20,0 fps 87,0 fps +335,0 %

Final Fantasy XV BenchmarkHighest,kein DLSS, 1080p 11.817 Punkte 21.638 Punkte +83,1 %

Fortnite1920x1080 177,9 fps 176,5 fps +0,8 %

Fortnite 1920x1080 P99 278,1 fps 256,8 fps +8,3 %

Fortnite P0.1 56,7 fps 54,3 fps +4,4 %

Geekbench 6.4.0 OpenCL 160.372 Punkte 390.390 Punkte +143,4 %

Geekbench 6.4.0 VULKAN 179.541 Punkte 410.399 Punkte +128,6 %

Metro Exodus P0.1 37,3 fps 82,0 fps +119,8 %

Monster Hunter Wilds Benchmark1920x1080, Ultra+NoDLSS,No-Raytracing 111,8 fps 137,6 fps +23,1 %

Synthetische Benchmarks 598,0 Rating 1.393 Rating +132,9 %

Unigine Superposition1080p Extreme 93,6 fps 206,3 fps +120,4 %

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme min FPS 74,9 fps 150,1 fps +100,5 %

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme max FPS 112,4 fps 281,8 fps +150,7 %

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme Punkte 12.518 fps 27.586 fps +120,4 %

Avg. 4K without ray tracing – all tested cards

MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio +118,3 %

Individual results (9 tests)

Black Myth Wukong Benchmark3840x2160, Cinematic,50%, DLSS/FSR, No FrameGeneration,No Raytracing 56,0 fps 107,0 fps +91,1 %

Cyberpunk 2077Ultra Preset, 3840x2160 53,4 fps 113,4 fps +112,6 %

Cyberpunk 2077 2.21 Ultra 3840x2160 min 44,7 fps 89,7 fps +100,6 %

Cyberpunk 2077 Ultra 3840x2160 max 66,9 fps 142,3 fps +112,6 %

Final Fantasy XV BenchmarkHighest,kein DLSS,3840x2160 5.844 Punkte 14.058 Punkte +140,6 %

Metro Exodus Ehanced Edition3840x2160 / Extreme 78,3 fps 184,6 fps +135,8 %

Monster Hunter Wilds Benchmark3840x2160, Ultra+NoDLSS,No-Raytracing 54,1 fps 94,6 fps +74,8 %

Shadow of the Tomb RaiderUltra, 3840x2160 105,0 fps 245,0 fps +133,3 %

Shadow of the Tomb RaiderUltra, 3840x2160 16.451 fps 38.229 fps +132,4 %

Avg. 4K with ray tracing – all tested cards

MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio +121,7 %

Individual results (8 tests)

Black Myth Wukong Benchmark3840x2160, Cinematic,50%, DLSS/FSR, No FrameGeneration,Raytracing-Very-High 20,0 fps 85,0 fps +325,0 %

Cyberpunk 2077Low RayTracing Low OHNE DLSS-FSR, 3840x2160 47,4 fps 100,5 fps +111,8 %

Cyberpunk 2077RayTracing Low DLSS / FSR2.1 3840x2160 94,4 fps 162,9 fps +72,5 %

Cyberpunk 2077 2.21 RayTracing DLSS 3840x2160 min 84,8 fps 143,9 fps +69,7 %

Cyberpunk 2077 2.21 RayTracing Low 3840x2160 min 40,1 fps 81,4 fps +103,0 %

Cyberpunk 2077 Low RayTracing Low 3840x2160 max 58,8 fps 124,3 fps +111,6 %

Cyberpunk 2077 RayTracing DLSS 3840x2160 max 113,4 fps 193,1 fps +70,2 %

Metro Exodus P99. Moscow3840x2160 DXR,Ultra,no DLSS 125,1 fps 273,3 fps +118,5 %

Avg. 8K – all tested cards

MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio +176,5 %

Individual results (2 tests)

Unigine Superposition8k Extreme 50,7 fps 140,9 fps +178,1 %

Unigine Superposition 8k Optimized 6.772 fps 18.838 fps +178,2 %

Price / performance

Each dot is a tested card – the further up and left, the more performance per euro.

Specifications

Key details

	Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse	MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio
Architecture	n/a	Blackwell
Generation	n/a	Blackwell
Type	Desktop GPU	Desktop GPU

Detailed specifications

	Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse	MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio
Shader processors (CUDA / stream)	n/a	21,760
Compute units / SMs	56	n/a
RT cores	56	n/a
Tensor cores	112	n/a
Base clock	2,070 MHz	2,010 MHz
Boost clock	2,520 MHz	2,410 MHz
Power draw (TDP/TGP)	n/a	575 W

VRAM capacity and type

	Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse	MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR7
Memory size	16 GB	32 GB
Memory bus width	n/a	512 Bit
Memory bandwidth	640,0 GB/s	n/a

Form factor and compatibility

	Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 Pulse	MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio
Interface	PCIe® 5.0 x16	PCIe Gen 5

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