MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z vs Sapphire AI PRO 9600D Passive

Comparison of MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z with 32 GB GDDR7 and 21,760 cores vs Sapphire AI PRO 9600D Passive with 32 GB GDDR6 and 3,072 cores.

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Performance Rating

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z outperforms Sapphire AI PRO 9600D Passive by 218.21% 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

Sapphire AI PRO 9600D Passive

14.8

Sapphire AI PRO 9600D Passive

14.8

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
576.0 GB/s

Memory Bus Width

512 бит 256 бит

ML Performance

FP16 (Half Precision)

🔥 +139% 118.8 TFLOPS
49.64 TFLOPS

BF16 (Brain Float)

No No

TF32 (TensorFloat)

No No

Compute Power

FP32 (Single Precision)

🔥 +379% 118.8 TFLOPS
24.82 TFLOPS

FP64 (Double Precision)

🔥 +139% 1.856 TFLOPS
0.7757 TFLOPS

CUDA Cores

🔥 +608% 21,760
3,072

RT Cores

🔥 +254% 170
48

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

🔥 +87% 2,017
1,080

Boost Clock

🔥 +35% 2,730
2,020

Memory Clock

1,750
🔥 +29% 2,250

Power Consumption

Recommended PSU

1400 W
🔥 -68% 450 W

Power Connector

🔥 +100% 2x 16-pin
1x 16-pin

TDP/TGP

1000 W
🔥 -85% 150 W

Rendering

Texture Units (TMU)

🔥 +254% 680
192

ROP

🔥 +254% 170
48

L2 Cache

🔥 +1,100% 96 MB
8 MB

Additional

Slots

Triple-slot Single-slot

Release Date

Jan. 6, 2026 Dec. 11, 2025

Display Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b

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

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