Nvidia's hugely popular RTX 5090 Founders Edition has been restocked in the UK at its MSRP price of £1,799. This is hundreds of pounds less than the asking price of the same silicon by add-in board partners. If you take a quick look at retailer Scan, their next-cheapest model comes in at £2,059 for the Zotac RTX 5090 Solid. That's a saving of over £200, and you get all the benefits of bragging to your friends about having one of the best-looking Founders Edition cards Nvidia has made to date. The GPU is available directly from Nvidia Marketplace.
This is bound to sell out quickly, and these cards are not restocked very often, which makes it a minor miracle that Nvidia has magically found some behind its data center-shaped sofa in time for Cyber Monday.
Based on TSMC's 4N node, the RTX 5090 has over 21760 CUDA cores, with a clock speed of up to 2407MHz, and is equipped with 32GB of GDDR7 memory across a 512-bit memory interface. This titanic GPU can demand up to 575W of total board power, meaning that you'll have to reach for an adequately powerful power supply of at least 1000W or more to run things comfortably, as the transient spikes of the RTX 5090 Founders Edition can spike up to 659W, as we show in our testing over at Tom's Hardware Premium.
So, if you're all ready and prepared to put such a card into your system, how well does it perform? Well, to put things bluntly, if you're buying an RTX 5090, you can pretty much brute force your way through demanding games with heaps of ray tracing, or titles marred by lousy PC optimization through sheer power alone, but don't take my word for it; we've left some benchmarks below.
In our four-star review from earlier this year, we said that it's doubtful that any other GPU would be able to beat it in the next few years. Thanks to its pure horsepower under the hood, and the large amount of VRAM — with its huge memory bandwidth — the RTX 5090 is also suited to local AI workloads, which will make this card even more in demand for those looking to capitalize on the ongoing AI boom, or if you want to experiment with local models. But, if you want to run larger AI models, you might want to shell out for the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, instead. Though that'll cost you a little bit more than the (relatively) humble RTX 5090 by comparison.
Look, I've waffled on enough about how fast the RTX 5090 is, and the Founders Edition model, complete with its swanky design, is still somehow in stock. Grab one before it's gone, otherwise you might not see it in stock again for a little while.
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