Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is exceptionally powerful but forbiddingly expensive. (You could build a complete RTX 5080-based gaming PC for the money.) But this top-tier GPU lives on a whole other planet of performance.

The Nvidia RTX 5090 is the most power Blackwell GPU among the 50-series launch cards. The card supports DLSS 4 with a massive 21,760 CUDA cores and 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM, but draws up to 575W of power.

Some gamers are already camping out during one of the coldest times in the year to get their hands on a $2,000 graphics card.

The RTX 5080 Founders Edition uses the same lovely shroud as the top RTX Blackwell card, and brings the same DLSS/MFG feature set to the table. But that's all that is really setting the second-tier card apart from the RTX 4080 Super as the gen-on-gen performance difference is marginal at best.

The first thing that’s notable about the RTX 5090 is the packaging design has totally changed since the Founders Edition RTX 40-series. Nvidia has switched to housing the RTX 5090 inside a smaller bone-shaped gray cardboard shell that sits inside a much larger brown cardboard box.

Introduction On January 23rd, 2025 we reviewed the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition video card, with availability on January 30th, for a retail MSRP of $1,999. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition performed well,

The RTX 5080 is the best $999 GPU on the market, offering high-end performance at a fraction of the cost of the 5090.

Nvidia's new GPU hardware is likely to sell out quickly. Plus it's expensive! If you want to experience true next-gen PC gaming, here are five desktops that'll you save cash, too.