While Supplies Last*
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. 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.
