NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 / RTX 5090 Linux Gaming Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Graphics Cards on 30 January 2025 at 04:05 PM EST. Page 6 of 6. 53 Comments.
Geometric Mean Of All Test Results benchmark with settings of Result Composite, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 RTX 5090 Linux GPU Benchmarks. RTX 5090 was the fastest.

From the initial GeForce RTX 5080 / RTX 5090 Linux graphics/gaming benchmarks I was able to complete today with the new NVIDIA 570.86.16 beta Linux driver, here is the geometric mean based on all the raw benchmark results. With these tests not utilizing DLSS 4 and a limited subset of benchmark-friendly games running well on Linux by way of Steam Play, with this initial set of tests the RTX 5090 comes in at 1.33x the performance of the RTX 4090 while the RTX 5080 was at 1.14x the performance of the RTX 4080 SUPER. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card delivered 1.78x the performance of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX on Linux.

GPU Power Consumption Monitoring Overview benchmark with settings of Accumulated GPU Power Consumption Monitoring.

Across the span of all these graphics benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5090 on Linux had a peak power consumption of 578 Watts and an average around 372 Watts, a 37% increase on average from the RTX 4090. The GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition had a 234 Watt average and 359 Watt peak, a much smaller increase over the RTX 4080.

GPU Temp Monitoring Overview benchmark with settings of Accumulated GPU Temp Monitoring.

Even with the increased power draw of these NVIDIA Blackwell graphics cards, both of these Founders Edition graphics cards operated very efficiently thermal-wise and were running rather cool for being dual-slot graphics cards.

Thanks to NVIDIA for supplying these graphics cards for launch-day Linux testing at Phoronix. Additional benchmarks will be published on Phoronix in the coming days.

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