RTX 5090 vs RTX 4090 Pro - GPU Benchmark Comparison

Direct performance comparison between the RTX 5090 and RTX 4090 Pro across 21 standardized AI benchmarks collected from our production fleet. Testing shows the RTX 5090 winning 18 out of 21 benchmarks (86% win rate), while the RTX 4090 Pro wins 3 tests. All 21 benchmark results are automatically gathered from active rental servers, providing real-world performance data rather than synthetic testing.

LLM Inference Performance: RTX 5090 36% faster

In language model inference testing across 9 different models, the RTX 5090 is 36% faster than the RTX 4090 Pro on average. For deepseek-r1:32b inference, the RTX 5090 achieves 71 tokens/s compared to RTX 4090 Pro's 45 tokens/s, making the RTX 5090 substantially faster with a 58% advantage. Overall, the RTX 5090 wins 8 out of 9 LLM tests with an average 41% performance difference, making it the stronger choice for transformer model inference workloads.

Image Generation Performance: RTX 5090 40% faster

Evaluating AI image generation across 12 different Stable Diffusion models, the RTX 5090 is 40% faster than the RTX 4090 Pro in this category. When testing sd3.5-medium, the RTX 5090 completes generations at 4.5 s/image compared to RTX 4090 Pro's 6.1 s/image, making the RTX 5090 significantly faster with a 37% advantage. Across all 12 image generation benchmarks, the RTX 5090 wins 10 tests with an average 40% performance difference, establishing it as the preferred GPU for Stable Diffusion, SDXL, and Flux deployments.

Order a GPU Server with RTX 5090 All GPU Server Benchmarks

Order a GPU Server with RTX 5090 Order a GPU Server with RTX 4090 Pro View All Benchmarks