NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Video Card Review

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Introduction The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is NVIDIA’s flagship next-generation graphics card featuring the new Blackwell architecture with an MSRP of $1,999. NVIDIA is introducing new technologies such as Neural Shaders, improved RT Cores, improved Tensor Cores, Mega Geometry Technology, DLSS 4 and Multi Framegen, and even the first gaming graphics card with GDDR7 on board. There’s a lot to unpack, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, and GeForce RTX 50 series overall, pack a lot of new features aimed at AI, but these features also blend over into gaming features that are being implemented now. Today we are going to […]

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Peter_Brosdahl said:
A lot to unpack indeed. I'll be re-reading this review a few times, at least. Thanks @Brent_Justice !
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Me too, me too, it's a long one boys! I attempted to include some relevant topics and testing, considering the new technologies. It's just the tip of the iceberg on potential testing. Frame Generation is one of the hardest things to convey.
 
Seems to be getting the 9950x3d will be wise for this one... It's been a long time since we've seen a new video card need more than the current gaming champ CPU can push.

Were you all seeing utilization less than 100% in the video card when you called that out?
 
Is reflex enabled on the native 4k latency tests? they seem quite high.
 
Grimlakin said:
Seems to be getting the 9950x3d
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Except that an AMD exec was quoted a few days ago as saying the performance will more or less be the same. AMD needs to make a CCD with more cores/threads, that or really bump up the clock speeds, or both.
 
BTW the card kind of looks somewhat small.
 
Do you notice any IQ difference between DLSS4 and DLSS 3? DLSS is supposed to have better IQ
 
Space_Ranger said:
That's the magic in their engineering.. It looks like a great card, in that small(ish) footprint..
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I don't really see a reason it's not somewhat shorter. Pretty much all 3rd party cards I've seen look gargantuan.
 
Stoly said:
I don't really see a reason it's not somewhat shorter. Pretty much all 3rd party cards I've seen look gargantuan.
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Watch the gamers nexus video on the cooling. They are the only source that go's into it and it's actually VERY interesting. That card is engineered very well... from a cooling perspective and density perspective.
 
Higher density = lower cost because less materials for PCB, but more cost in the cooler itself that was engineered very well by all appearances to be minimal on materials to effectiveness. So in effect they spent a lot to engineer the board but it will pay off in dividends on production costs needing less materials. :)
 
As much as I want one with an AIO I'm seriously considering this FE version. I normally don't care about FE models but really liking this one. I'll probably still try to get an custom with AIO (MSI more than likely) but feeling tempted by this one.
 
since nvidia claims the RTX5070 beats the RTX 4090, wouldn't it be fair to claim that the RTX4090 is faster than the RTX5090 (when using dlss 3.5 frame generation vs no frame gen)? :p ;):rolleyes:
 
Nice review, thanks.

Out of my price range by a factor of 4. Not including the 1000w PSU I would need to buy as well.
 
So I'm gonna just throw this out there...... who out there NEEDS this? I mean, really, what PC game is anyone playing today that they HAVE to have 4K with RT at 100fps+? Most of the high fps freaks I know that buy all the crazy fps monitors etc are playing twitch shooters on 24-27" monitors. None are pro gamers LOL Personally I'm happy to get 60+ so no vsync/screen tearing, but I also don't play a ton of fps games.

I spent $500 on a 4070 last year and that was coming from a 1080ti. $2k for a GPU is just insane to me.

??? thoughts ???
 
Burticus said:
So I'm gonna just throw this out there...... who out there NEEDS this? I mean, really, what PC game is anyone playing today that they HAVE to have 4K with RT at 100fps+? Most of the high fps freaks I know that buy all the crazy fps monitors etc are playing twitch shooters on 24-27" monitors. None are pro gamers LOL Personally I'm happy to get 60+ so no vsync/screen tearing, but I also don't play a ton of fps games.

I spent $500 on a 4070 last year and that was coming from a 1080ti. $2k for a GPU is just insane to me.

??? thoughts ???
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Sure, I have a 4090 running on one of the 57" Samsung Neo G9s (dual 4k resolution). An extra 25% boost would probably let me turn fortnite and other games up a notch and maintain a playable frame rate.
 
Burticus said:
So I'm gonna just throw this out there...... who out there NEEDS this? I mean, really, what PC game is anyone playing today that they HAVE to have 4K with RT at 100fps+? Most of the high fps freaks I know that buy all the crazy fps monitors etc are playing twitch shooters on 24-27" monitors. None are pro gamers LOL Personally I'm happy to get 60+ so no vsync/screen tearing, but I also don't play a ton of fps games.
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Most of us will get by just fine with a 5080 (or less); honestly this makes the 4090 tempting again as an in-between, if you need more than 16GB of VRAM and don't have >US$2000.

But most of us don't need more than 16GB of VRAM. Yet.
 
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