RTX 5090 vs A100 - GPU Benchmark Comparison

Direct performance comparison between the RTX 5090 and A100 across 20 standardized AI benchmarks collected from our production fleet. Testing shows the RTX 5090 winning 20 out of 20 benchmarks (100% win rate), while the A100 wins 0 tests. All 20 benchmark results are automatically gathered from active rental servers, providing real-world performance data rather than synthetic testing.

LLM Inference Performance: RTX 5090 61% faster

In language model inference testing across 8 different models, the RTX 5090 is 61% faster than the A100 on average. For llama3.1:8b inference, the RTX 5090 achieves 264 tokens/s compared to A100's 154 tokens/s, making the RTX 5090 substantially faster with a 71% advantage. Overall, the RTX 5090 wins 8 out of 8 LLM tests with an average 61% performance difference, making it the stronger choice for transformer model inference workloads.

Image Generation Performance: RTX 5090 37% faster

Evaluating AI image generation across 12 different Stable Diffusion models, the RTX 5090 is 37% faster than the A100 in this category. When testing sd3.5-medium, the RTX 5090 completes generations at 4.5 s/image compared to A100's 6.8 s/image, making the RTX 5090 substantially faster with a 50% advantage. Across all 12 image generation benchmarks, the RTX 5090 wins 12 tests with an average 37% performance difference, establishing it as the preferred GPU for Stable Diffusion, SDXL, and Flux deployments.

About These Benchmarks of RTX 5090 vs A100

Our benchmarks are collected automatically from servers having gpus of type RTX 5090 and A100 in our fleet using standardized test suites:

LLM Inference (Ollama & VLLM): Measures tokens per second of RTX 5090 compared to A100 for LLM inference using various models (Llama, Qwen, etc.) on both Ollama and VLLM with FP8 quantization
Image Generation: Measures images per minute and seconds per image for AI image generation on the RTX 5090 compared to A100
CPU: Single-core and multi-core operations per second representing GPU Servers you can rent with RTX 5090 or A100
NVMe: Read and write speeds in MB/s for storage performance on GPU Servers typically equipped with RTX 5090 or A100

Note: RTX 5090 and A100 AI Benchmark Results may vary based on system load, configuration, and specific hardware revisions. These benchmarks represent median values from multiple test runs of RTX 5090 and A100.