Here’s Your RTX 5090 Roundup

While Supplies Last*
It is a beast, with 168 more texture units, 42 more RT cores, 5376 more CUDA cores and 168 more tensor cores than the previous king, the RTX 4090. Those tensor cores are also 5th gen and not 4th gen, which will add even more efficiency and performance. If that’s not enough to impress, how about a 512-bit memory interface instead of 384-bit, bringing the memory bandwidth up to an unprecedented 1.79 TB/s.
Sebastian’s testing shows that it blows away the RTX 4090 even before applying DLSS 4.0; once quadruple frame generation is enabled the results are even more one sided. It also looks gorgeous doing so, with no softening or blurring as we’ve seen in previous DLSS generations. The FPS Review also tested out the RTX 5090 FE in an assortment of eight games with and without ray tracing. The mighty RTX 5090 struggles to provide 60fps at 4K with ray tracing enabled in most games, that is just asking too much. However when you bring DLSS 4.0 into the picture you will indeed be able to game at 4K with every bell and whistle available in the game.
One interesting fact revealed is that the RTX 5090 has slightly higher latency than the previous generation, the amount depending on the game being tested. This doesn’t seem to result in real world performance differences, but it does lead The FPS Review to recommend sticking with 2X Frame Gen. This recommendation makes a lot of sense, considering the small number of games supporting all the features of DLSS 4.0.
There’s a lot to unpack, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, and GeForce RTX 50 series overall, pack a lot of new features aimed at AI, but these features also blend over into gaming features that are being implemented now into games.
More Tech News From Around The Web
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 PCI-Express Scaling @ TechPowerUp
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 costs as much as a whole gaming PC—but it sure is fast @ Ars Technica
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition @ GamersNexus
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition @ Guru of 3D
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition @ TechPowerUp
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition @ TweakTown
- Nvidia RTX 5090 Review: Ray Tracing, DLSS 4, and Raw Power Explored @ KitGuru
- ASUS ROG GeForce RTX 5090 ASTRAL @ Guru of 3D
- ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 Astral OC @ TechPowerUp
- Palit GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock @ Guru of 3D
- Palit GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock @ TechPowerUp
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 SUPRIM SOC @ TweakTown
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim SOC @ TechPowerUp
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC @ TechPowerUp
- NVIDIA DLSS 4 Transformer @ TechPowerUp
- Supermicro SYS-821GE-TNHR 8x NVIDIA H200 GPU Air Cooled @ ServeTheHome
“If you blinked, you missed your chance to pick up NVIDIA’s RTX 5090 at MSRP of $1999, or at any price really as it seems to have disappeared from the major online retailers.”
Ummmmm….maybe that’s because preorders haven’t opened on ANY online retailers…great reporting…
I think his goal was to ensure people stopped reading before finishing the first sentence… He succeeded.
This guy should be fired, as Google’s atrocious Gemini AI provides better information!
Thought it had already come and gone, stupid me having other things to do and thinking I’d missed it.