RTX 5090 early benchmarks impress
Early benchmarks of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 show a significant performance boost, with testers reporting frame rate increases of 20-35% over the RTX 4090, especially when using DLSS 4 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWSlOC_jiLQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA5lFiP3mrs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srQHBeWnQzw]. The RTX 5090 also features improved thermal management while maintaining expected power consumption for a flagship GPU, making it a top contender for 4K gaming and GPU-intensive tasks [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWSlOC_jiLQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA5lFiP3mrs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srQHBeWnQzw].
The RTX 5090, based on NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture, launched on January 30, 2025, at $1,999. It succeeds the RTX 4090, which debuted in October 2022 for $1,599. The RTX 5090 has 21,760 CUDA cores and 32 GB of GDDR7 memory. GDDR7 memory allows for faster data transfer rates compared to the RTX 4090's GDDR6X. Its Blackwell architecture features enhanced ray tracing and AI capabilities. NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture uses a dual-die design with 208 billion transistors. These GPUs are manufactured using a custom-built TSMC 4NP process. The architecture also uses fifth-generation Tensor Cores. DLSS 4, which is supported by the RTX 50 series, introduces Multi Frame Generation (MFG) and transformer models. MFG allows the card to generate multiple subsequent frames using AI for every traditionally rendered frame. The RTX 5090 also features RTX Neural Shaders and RTX Neural Faces.
