MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC Review: Fast, Frigid Blackwell
All of this data is brand new, using the latest build of Windows 11 (24H2), with the latest drivers and firmware available for all components as of the date of publication.
Our Test System Configuration:
| Hardware Used: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (4.7GHz - 5.2GHz, 8-Core) MSI X870E Carbon WiFi 32GB G.SKILL DDR5-6000 Samsung SSD 990 Integrated Audio / Network Radeon RX 7900 XT GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5090 MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC Relevant Software: Windows 11 Pro 24H2 AMD Radeon v24.12.1 NVIDIA Drivers v571.86 |
Benchmarks Used: MLPerf Client Geekbench AI Procyon AI Text Generation Procyon AI Stable Diffusion XL Blender v4.3 Blackmagic RAW Speed Test v4.3.1 V-Ray UL 3DMark UL VRMark Unigine Superposition Assassin's Creed Mirage Black Myth Wukon Homeworld 3 Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered Cyberpunk 2077 (press beta) The Talos Principle II F1 24 |
MLPerf Client Benchmarks
The MLPerf Client benchmark was designed by MLCommons to evaluate machine learning inference tasks on PCs. It focuses on client form factors and aims to measure how well different hardware and software configurations handle four different AI workloads using a single model. It supports DirectML via ONNX Runtime for a wide range of hardware, but Intel also gets a specialized OpenVINO path for now. Participants in MLCommons are also able to optimize the models for their hardware, but must meet strict guidelines for accuracy.
The MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC's higher GPU clocks gave it a slot edge over NVIDIA's Foudners Edition card, which put it into the lead in our MLPerf Client tests.
The MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC's higher GPU clocks gave it a slot edge over NVIDIA's Foudners Edition card, which put it into the lead in our MLPerf Client tests.
Geekbench AI Testing
Geekbench AI is a cross-platform benchmark tool designed to evaluate the performance of AI workloads on a wide range devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. It measures the performance of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs (Neural Processing Units) across different operating systems like Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux with an array of machine learning tasks.
Geekbench AI had the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC trailing NVIDIA's card by a small margin. The detlas are quite small though, and fall well within the margin of error for this test.
Geekbench AI had the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC trailing NVIDIA's card by a small margin. The detlas are quite small though, and fall well within the margin of error for this test.
UL Procyon AI Text Generation Benchmarks
The Procyon AI Text Generation Benchmark is a tool developed by UL Solutions to evaluate the performance of large language models (LLMs) on Windows PCs. It features real-world use cases and uses seven prompts with both Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and non-RAG queries. It tests various AI models like Phi-3.5-mini, Mistral-7B, Llama-3.1-8B, and Llama-2-13B. These tests were run using ONNX with DirectML, not TensorRT, which is optimal for NVIDIA's RTX series discrete GPUs, but unavailable in this test at this time.
With the exception of the PHI 3.5 model, the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC takes the top spot in Procyon's LLM text generation benchmark, besting NVIDIA's card by a few points in each of the other tests.
With the exception of the PHI 3.5 model, the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC takes the top spot in Procyon's LLM text generation benchmark, besting NVIDIA's card by a few points in each of the other tests.
UL Procying Stable Diffusion XL AI Image Generation
The Procyon AI Image Generation Benchmark measures inference performance for image generation tasks. It includes several tests, with the Stable Diffusion XL (FP16) test we used here being the most demanding. The test is designed to evaluate a wide range of hardware from low power NPUs to high-end discrete GPUs and it can be configured to use different inference engines like NVIDIA TensorRT, Intel OpenVINO, and ONNX with DirectML. Unfortunately, the TensorRT engine hasn’t been updated for Blackwell just yet, but we tested it with ONNX to provide a point of reference versus the RTX 4090.
We need to point out that the GeForce RTX 5090 cards are not putting their best foot forward here, because this benchmark hasn't been updated to properly support TensorRT on NVIDIA's latest architecture. Still, the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC comes out on top, besting the RTX 4090, which IS running on the proper inference engine. When TensorRT support for Blackwell comes to this test, the RTX 5090s will only pull ahead even further.
We need to point out that the GeForce RTX 5090 cards are not putting their best foot forward here, because this benchmark hasn't been updated to properly support TensorRT on NVIDIA's latest architecture. Still, the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC comes out on top, besting the RTX 4090, which IS running on the proper inference engine. When TensorRT support for Blackwell comes to this test, the RTX 5090s will only pull ahead even further.
Blender v4.3 GPU Rendering Benchmarks
Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that can handle everything from modeling, rigging, and animation, through simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and even video editing or game creation. The developers offer a standalone benchmark tool that will track performance while rendering a handful of models. We used all three of the default models for these tests...
Blender also had the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC trailing the Foudners Edition card every so slightly. Once again though, the deltas are small and fall within the margins of error for this benchmark.
V-Ray Rendering
The V-Ray Benchmark is a free tool that measures rendering performance on CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, or a combination of both. The GPU benchmark in particular features a complex scene designed to evaluate the capabilities of both the RTX and CUDA-based V-Ray 6 render engines.
The MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC's slightly higher GPU clocks haven't really helped it in the rendering tests, but again, it's mostly noise in the benchmarks and the detlas aren't large enough to be meaningful.
Blackmagic RAW Speed Test Results
The Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is a CPU and GPU benchmarking tool that determines the speed of decoding full-resolution Blackmagic RAW video frames. The tool can be used to evaluate performance at various resolutions and bitrates on the CPU or using OpenCL or CUDA on a GPU. We're reporting four results here, at 8K and 4K resolutions, but at differing bitrates and compression levels.
The MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC finished right on top of the NVIDIA's Founders Edition card, which is to say it led the pack with the fastest RAW encoding overall.
