RTX 5090: Benchmark tests, reviews, and the latest news
The GeForce RTX 5090 is the most powerful consumer graphics card ever made. Gamers can tap into 104.8 TFLOPS of raw FP32 compute from its GB202 GPU, and it brims with AI prowess thanks to 680 Blackwell Tensor Cores that power Nvidia's suite of DLSS 4 upscaling and Multi Frame Generation technologies.
32GB of the latest GDDR7 memory running across a 512-bit bus offers a staggering 1.79 TB/s of memory bandwidth to feed all those compute resources for gaming and AI research alike. No matter how you slice it, this exotic, range-topping Blackwell card is the best of the best—as it ought to be for its $1999 price tag. Here's all the latest news and info about this remarkable product.
Graphics Card |
RTX 5090 |
RTX 4090 |
RTX 3090 |
RTX 2080 Ti |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Architecture |
GB202 |
AD102 |
GA102 |
TU102 |
Process Technology |
TSMC 4N |
TSMC 4N |
Samsung 8N |
TSMC 12FFN |
Transistors (Billion) |
92.2 |
76.3 |
28.3 |
18.6 |
Die size (mm^2) |
750 |
608.4 |
628.4 |
754 |
Boost Clock (MHz) |
2407 |
2520 |
1695 |
1545 |
Bandwidth (GB/s) |
1792 |
1008 |
936 |
616 |
TBP (watts) |
575 |
450 |
350 |
260 |
Launch Date |
Jan 2025 |
Oct 2022 |
Sep 2020 |
Sep 2018 |
Launch Price |
$1,999 |
$1,599 |
$1,499 |
$1,199 |
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Latest about Nvidia RTX 5090

By Stewart Bendle Published
With no new Nvidia 5090 GPU replacement anticipated before at least 2028, this could well be your last opportunity to get your hands on a very powerful GPU for gaming.

By Stewart Bendle Last updated
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By Stephen Warwick Published
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By Jhet Borja Published
Reddit user u/DallasGrave shared a fix for his RTX 5090, one of the best graphics cards, whose 12VHPWR connector was overheating, along with an image of a module screwed onto the back of his GPU.

By Andrew E. Freedman Published
Everyone points at someone else.

By Jeffrey Kampman Last updated
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By Jowi Morales Published
NO EXPORT - NO EXCEPTIONS.

By Jowi Morales Published
A lucky surprise.
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