By Finally, the wait is over. It is an utter beast. Naturally, it should be for $2,000. Although the RTX 5090’s improvement in raw gaming performance is not quite as great as the 4090’s was over its predecessor, it still outperforms all previous GPUs and has no discernible technical issues.
Although raw gaming performance is desirable, I believe DLSS 4, a new generation of Nvidia’s renowned AI-powered performance-boosting technology, will be the GeForce RTX 50-series’ deciding factor. Blackwell and Nvidia worked together to refine DLSS 4, and many of Blackwell’s enhancements were directed toward Nvidia’s AI tensor cores. And friends, darn you. Our early gameplay suggests that DLSS 4’s revolutionary Multi Frame Generation AI technology has the potential to transform the gaming experience completely. To put it simply, it’s fantastic.
For a detailed examination of each benchmark we conducted and a wealth of other firsthand knowledge, see the attached video review below. The main points of this written review are what prospective RTX 5090 customers should know before shelling out $2,000 for the most powerful graphics card ever made.
In every way, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is incredible.
One thing immediately stood out when we discussed (and then examined!) the specifications for Nvidia’s first GeForce RTX 50-series lineup: The GeForce RTX 5090 was the undisputed star, with almost no technical defects in its design. Our testing confirms that. There was never any question that the 5090 would outperform its predecessor in gaming thanks to its 33 percent more CUDA cores than the RTX 4090, new RT and tensor AI cores, and more raw power flowing through its digital veins. (See the next section for much more on that.) Any gaming activity you throw at it, regardless of resolution, will be handled by its massive 32GB of state-of-the-art GDDR7 RAM, which is constructed with a broad 512-bit bus.
These days, GPUs are used for more than simply gaming; they are being used for real AI jobs. While the RTX 5090’s unparalleled memory arrangement can accommodate far larger AI models than any previous GPU, Nvidia tuned its Blackwell design to excel at AI applications. Procyon’s AI Text Generation benchmark yields very stunning results. The RTX 5090 outperforms the 4090 by roughly 19 percent in the “worst case” scenario, which uses the Phi 3.5 large language model; in the best case scenario, Meta’s Llama 3.1, performance increased by 32 percent. Engineers and researchers studying AI will be rushing to learn about this.
We are discussing this first for a reason: Like a more powerful version of the 4090 before it, the GeForce RTX 5090 is much more than simply a gaming card. People who work on their PCs will be demanding this powerful GeForce GPU so they can utilize it to earn real money. For years, the RTX 4090 has sold for more than $2,500 over its recommended price of $1,600. With its fast, large memory pool and AI enhancements, I anticipate that demand for the Titanic 5090 will only increase. Even at $1,999, which I have a feeling will seem like a great deal in a few months, this will sell a lot of copies.
Gaming benchmarks for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090: incredibly quick
The GeForce RTX 4090 stood unopposed as the ultimate gaming GPU since the moment it launched. No longer. The new Blackwell generation uses the same underlying TSMC 4N process technology as the RTX 40-series, so Nvidia couldn’t squeeze easy improvements there. Instead, the company overhauled the RTX 5090’s instruction pipeline, endowed it with 33 percent more CUDA cores, and pushed it to a staggering 575W TGP, up from the 4090’s 450W. Blackwell also introduced a new generation of RT and AI cores.
The RTX 5090 only slightly improves generational performance in games that employ brute-force graphics rendering without ray tracing or DLSS. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 only gain 15 and 12 percent more performance, respectively, while Cyberpunk 2077 is 50 percent faster, Shadow of the Tomb Raider is 32 percent faster, and Rainbow Six Siege is 28 percent faster. The splits vary greatly depending on the game. On average, it runs 27 percent faster in those games.
In summary, cutting-edge performance at a cutting-edge cost
When used alone, the RTX 5090 improves gaming performance by about 30% on average compared to the RTX 4090. Although it’s a significant generational advancement, we’ve seen similar hardware provided at the same price point as the slower, older models throughout history. From that angle, Nvidia’s request for an additional $500 on top seems ostentatious and exaggerated.
However, the RTX 5090 differs from earlier iterations. We’re in the AI era today, and AI practitioners will certainly sell their firstborn to get ahold of the awesomely powerful GPU, enormous memory pool, and furiously fast memory bandwidth — three important hardware factors for the industry. Given that, I predict pricing for this enormous graphics card to rise as swiftly as Godzilla does from Japan’s waters.
You will be swooning over the GeForce RTX 5090 if you insist on the greatest cutting-edge gaming technology, regardless of cost. It is capable of handling anything and everything with ease, producing ray-traced frames quickly and then using the magic of DLSS 4 to increase smoothness way past 11. You’ll have plenty of chances to use your beautiful new hardware on the day the RTX 5090 is released because more than 75 games and apps are expected to support DLSS 4.
It’s an upgrade option for the RTX 3090 and anything older, but I wouldn’t suggest getting this over the RTX 4090 for gaming (unless you’re dying to test DLSS 4). In games, the 4090 outperformed the 3090 by 55 to 83 percent, while the 5090 outperforms it by roughly 30 percent while having significantly more memory. Ultimately, playing games doesn’t require a $2,000 graphics card. However, this is without a doubt the most potent and capable graphics card ever made, if you’re interested in one and don’t mind the retail price. With the help of DLSS 4’s unbelievable wizardry, the GeForce RTX 5090 is a performance monster.
