We close out on non-RT benchmarks with two final titles that we've seen before in their RT guises - Hitman: World of Asssassination and A Plague Tale: Requiem. Both games play well enough at lower frame-rates, but they're still demanding enough on the underlying hardware that there are meaningful differences as we jump from one generation to another.

Again, it's a combination of custom benchmarks and integrated ones here, with Hitman offering an excellent benchmark suite in its launcher with the choice of the Dubai (GPU) or Dartmoor (CPU) benchmarks. Meanwhile, we used an in-game cutscene from A Plague Tale: Requiem, with some custom work required to get to the precise moment the cutscene triggers with a minimum of faff.

Hitman: World of Assassination

Hitman: World of Assassination, Max Settings, RT Off

Returning without RT enabled to some of the highest frame-rates seen in our testing, the Dubai level of Hitman: World of Assassination shows the 5090 outstripping the 4090 by 23 percent, the 3090 Ti by 102 percent and the 2080 Ti by 231 percent. That's a lot of frames. AMD's best? The 5090 is around 50 percent faster than the current flagship for Team Red, though the RX 9070-series cards expected in March 2025 out to do a bit better.

A Plague Tale: Requiem

A Plague Tale: Requiem, Max Settings, RT Shadows Off

You may remember A Plague Tale: Requiem from earlier in this review, where the 5090 was ahead of the 4090 by a cool 35 percent. That margin actually increases with RT disabled, with the 5090 brute-forcing its way to a 38 percent improvement. That translates into a 2.28x performance increase versus the 3090 Ti and 3.8x against the 2080 Ti - which is no doubt struggling with memory issues.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Analysis