MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC Review: Fast, Frigid Blackwell

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Speed Way is the most recent addition to the UL 3DMark graphics test suite. Speed Way uses the DirectX 12 Ultimate API and leverages advanced features like DirectX Ray Tracing tier 1.1 for real-time global illumination and ray traced reflections, Mesh Shaders, and high resolution textures and artwork. All of the graphics cards here were testing using the default benchmark options should you want to compare the performance of your system to our test rig...

UL 3DMark Speed Way DX12 Ultimate Benchmarks

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3DMark Speed Way

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The MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC edged passed the NVIDIA Founders Edition card to take the lead in the 3DMark Speedway test, clearly outrunning the RTX 4090 and more than doubling the performance of AMD's current flagship consumer GPU.

UL 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 Benchmarks

3DMark Steel Nomad is one of the newer cross-platform GPU benchmarks developed by UL Solutions as part of the 3DMark suite. This test is designed to evaluate the performance of modern gaming hardware in non-ray-traced scenarios, but using otherwise advanced rendering techniques with DX12.

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3DMark Steel Nomad

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3DMark's Steel Nomad test also had the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC finishing in the top spot by a few percentage points. The MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC's higher clocks and power limit give it a more pronounced advantage in this benchmark.

VR Benchmarks: VR Mark & Unigine Superposition

Superposition is an aging benchmark from Unigine, powered by the UNIGINE 2 Engine. It offers an array of benchmark modes, targeting gaming workloads as well as VR, with both DirectX and OpenGL code paths. There is an extreme hardware stability test built-in too. Unigine Superposition uses the developer’s unique SSRTGI (Screen-Space Ray-Traced Global Illumination) dynamic lighting technology, along with high quality textures and models, to produce some excellent visuals. We ran Superposition's VR Future benchmark to compare the performance of all of the graphics cards featured here.

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Unigine Superposition VR Future Test

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Unigine's VR Future benchmark had the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC finishing just behind the NVIDIA-built card. 

UL VR Mark Blue Room Benchmarks

UL's VRMark was designed to test a PC’s readiness for HMDs like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The benchmark does not, however, require that one of the headsets is attached to the PC to run and it uses an in-house graphics engine and content to ensure comparable results between different platforms. We ran the "Blue Room" VRMark test at defaults settings here, which is the most taxing test offered by the tool.

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UL VRMark

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The tables turned in VRMark, with the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC jumping to the top of the charts yet again.

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