RTX 5090 Dominates 4K Gaming
NVIDIA's RTX 5090 is crushing 4K benchmarks with frame rates exceeding 120fps in AAA games with ray tracing maxed. DLSS 4 delivers virtually artifact-free frame generation even in motion-heavy scenes, while maintaining reasonable thermals despite the massive performance jump. Early reviewers highlight expanded VRAM and improved memory bandwidth as key factors.
The RTX 5090 is built on NVIDIA's "Blackwell" architecture, a successor to the "Ada Lovelace" architecture of the RTX 40 series. This new design significantly increases transistor density, moving to a custom TSMC 4N process. The underlying GB202 graphics processor is a large chip, boasting 92.2 billion transistors. This latest flagship card moves to 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus, a significant upgrade from the 24 GB of GDDR6X on a 384-bit bus found in its predecessor, the RTX 4090. This results in a substantial increase in memory bandwidth, a key factor in its improved 4K performance. The RTX 5090 launched with a price of $1,999. The predecessor, the RTX 4090, launched in October 2022 for $1,599 and was built on a 5nm process with 76.3 billion transistors. The RTX 5090's move to the Blackwell architecture represents a significant generational leap in raw processing power and efficiency. DLSS 4's "Multi-Frame Generation" is exclusive to the RTX 50 series and can generate up to three frames for every one rendered frame, a significant increase from the single frame of DLSS 3. This is achieved through a new transformer-based AI model, which improves image quality and reduces artifacts like ghosting for all RTX GPUs, not just the 50 series.
