RTX 5090 vs V100 - GPU Benchmark Comparison

Direct performance comparison between the RTX 5090 and V100 across 12 standardized AI benchmarks collected from our production fleet. Testing shows the RTX 5090 winning 12 out of 12 benchmarks (100% win rate), while the V100 wins 0 tests. All 12 benchmark results are automatically gathered from active rental servers, providing real-world performance data rather than synthetic testing.

LLM Inference Performance: RTX 5090 110% faster

In language model inference testing across 4 different models, the RTX 5090 is 110% faster than the V100 on average. For gpt-oss:20b inference, the RTX 5090 achieves 238 tokens/s compared to V100's 113 tokens/s, making the RTX 5090 substantially faster with a 110% advantage. Overall, the RTX 5090 wins 4 out of 4 LLM tests with an average 110% performance difference, making it the stronger choice for transformer model inference workloads.

Image Generation Performance: RTX 5090 303% faster

Evaluating AI image generation across 8 different Stable Diffusion models, the RTX 5090 is 303% faster than the V100 in this category. When testing sdxl, the RTX 5090 completes generations at 2.0 s/image compared to V100's 6.1 s/image, making the RTX 5090 substantially faster with a 203% advantage. Across all 8 image generation benchmarks, the RTX 5090 wins 8 tests with an average 303% performance difference, establishing it as the preferred GPU for Stable Diffusion, SDXL, and Flux deployments.

About These Benchmarks of RTX 5090 vs V100

Our benchmarks are collected automatically from servers having gpus of type RTX 5090 and V100 in our fleet using standardized test suites:

LLM Inference (Ollama & VLLM): Measures tokens per second of RTX 5090 compared to V100 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 V100
CPU: Single-core and multi-core operations per second representing GPU Servers you can rent with RTX 5090 or V100
NVMe: Read and write speeds in MB/s for storage performance on GPU Servers typically equipped with RTX 5090 or V100

Note: RTX 5090 and V100 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 V100.