A brand new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 leak suggests the bottom clock pace of the upcoming card can be 2.9GHz, which makes for an enormous 600MHz improve over the present RTX 4090. That base clock frequency is a assured minimal in video games, suggesting that the cardboard will be capable to ship at the very least that pace always.
This all ties into earlier RTX 5090 rumors, which have advised the brand new Nvidia GPU will present a big uptick in efficiency over the present greatest graphics card, the RTX 4090.
The leak comes from a dialogue on the Chiphell discussion board (by way of a submit on Videocardz). In reply to a different submit speaking about GPU clock speeds, discussion board person, Panzerlied (who has type for earlier GPU tech leaks), states that “the bottom frequency of 5090 is sort of 2.9G.”
In addition to being roughly 600MHz sooner than the RTX 4090’s 2,235MHz base clock pace, this additionally comfortably beats some other GPU presently available on the market, with most of Nvidia’s GPUs hovering across the 2-2.5GHz mark. Even AMD’s fastest-clocked GPU, the RX 7600 XT, solely hits 2.755MHz.
Whereas this base clock pace ought to imply the RTX 5090 can frequently tick alongside at a quick charge, we’d additionally count on it to have the ability to increase its clock pace to a fair larger degree. The RTX 4090’s increase clock is 2,580MHz, so if the identical base-to-boost improve is utilized to the RTX 5090, it may hit 3,245MHz.
The RTX 5090 is anticipated to make use of the identical Blackwell GB202 GPU featured in Nvidia’s newest top-tier AI server chips, however with barely extra of the GPU’s cores and different inner options disabled. In a single latest Blackwell leak, the advised complete variety of streaming multiprocessors (SMs) of the RTX 5090 can be 192, which is an enormous improve over the 126 SMs of the RTX 4090.
Finally, it’s no nice shock that the RTX 5090 is shaping as much as be a monstrously highly effective GPU. In any case, the RTX 4090 is already a efficiency beast, and the RTX 5090, by definition, must be at the very least a bit of bit sooner. We’ll nonetheless have to attend and see simply precisely the way it will form up when it comes to total gaming efficiency improve, energy effectivity, and worth, nonetheless.
Within the meantime, you may learn extra about how Nvidia’s newest body charge and picture quality-boosting software program tech in our DLSS information, with all its present and future GPUs set to assist these options.
