Nvidia RTX 5090 Review: Ray Tracing, DLSS 4, and Raw Power

Here we present the average clock speed for each graphics card while running A Plague Tale: Requiem for 30 minutes. We use GPU-Z to record the GPU core frequency during gameplay. We calculate the average core frequency during the 30 minute run to present here.

Looking now at clock speed of the Founders Edition model, it ran at a pretty consistent frequency during the 30-minute stress test. It initially boosted to 2670MHz, before settling down at around 2630MHz after three or-so minutes, where it held for the remainder of the test. This is about 50MHz slower than what my RTX 4090 typically achieves, so it's interesting to see slightly lower clock speeds with Blackwell.

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