MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z vs PowerColor Radeon AI PRO R9700

Comparison of MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z with 32 GB GDDR7 and 21,760 cores vs PowerColor Radeon AI PRO R9700 with 32 GB GDDR6 and 4,096 cores.

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Performance Rating

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z outperforms PowerColor Radeon AI PRO R9700 by 116.87% in the overall GPU ARK performance rating

A100 A100
H200 H200
MI325X MI325X

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2
RX 7900 XTX RX 7900 XTX
MI250 MI250
Instinct MI300X Instinct MI300X

PowerColor Radeon AI PRO R9700

21.8

PowerColor Radeon AI PRO R9700

21.8

Contents:

Memory ML Performance Compute Power Architecture & Compatibility ML Software Support Clocks & Performance Power Consumption Rendering Additional

Memory

Memory Size

32 GB 32 GB

Memory Type

GDDR7 GDDR6

Memory Bandwidth

🔥 1.79 TB/s
644.6 GB/s

Memory Bus Width

512 бит 256 бит

ML Performance

FP16 (Half Precision)

🔥 +24% 118.8 TFLOPS
95.68 TFLOPS

BF16 (Brain Float)

No No

TF32 (TensorFloat)

No No

Compute Power

FP32 (Single Precision)

🔥 +148% 118.8 TFLOPS
47.84 TFLOPS

FP64 (Double Precision)

🔥 +24% 1.856 TFLOPS
1.495 TFLOPS

CUDA Cores

🔥 +431% 21,760
4,096

RT Cores

🔥 +166% 170
64

Architecture & Compatibility

GPU Architecture

Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 4.0

SM (Streaming Multiprocessor)

🔥 170
No

PCIe Version

PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16

ML Software Support

CUDA Version

12.0 No

Clocks & Performance

Base Clock

🔥 +22% 2,017
1,660

Boost Clock

2,730
🔥 +7% 2,920

Memory Clock

1,750
🔥 +44% 2,518

Power Consumption

Recommended PSU

1400 W
🔥 -50% 700 W

Power Connector

🔥 +100% 2x 16-pin
1x 16-pin

TDP/TGP

1000 W
🔥 -70% 300 W

Rendering

Texture Units (TMU)

🔥 +166% 680
256

ROP

🔥 +166% 170
64

L2 Cache

🔥 +1,100% 96 MB
8 MB

Additional

Slots

Triple-slot Dual-slot

Release Date

Jan. 6, 2026 July 23, 2025

Display Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x USB Type-C
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a

4x DisplayPort 2.1a

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