NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review - The New Flagship

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From hardware unboxing, they equate it to a “4090 Ti” equivalent performance uplift and not necessarily a generational improvement… @ 4K

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TPU Commenter quote : “35% more performance with 25% higher power draw”

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We upgraded our test system last month, which is now built on AMD technology with the outstanding Ryzen 7 9800X3D. We've updated to Windows 11 24H2, complete with the newest patches and updates, and have added a selection of new games. At 4K resolution, with pure rasterization, without ray tracing or DLSS, we measured a 35% performance uplift over the RTX 4090. While this is certainly impressive, it is considerably less than what we got from RTX 3090 Ti to RTX 4090 (+51%). NVIDIA still achieves their "twice the performance every second generation" rule: the RTX 5090 is twice as fast as the RTX 3090 Ti. There really isn't much on the market that RTX 5090 can be compared to. It's 75% faster than AMD's flagship the RX 7900 XTX. AMD has confirmed that they are not going for high-end with RDNA 4, and it's expected that the RX 9070 Series will end up somewhere between RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 GRE. This means that RTX 5090 is at least twice as fast as AMD's fastest next-generation card. Compared to the second-fastest Ada card, the RTX 4080 Super, the performance increase is 72%--wow!

There really is no question, RTX 5090 is the card you want for 4K gaming at maximum settings with all RT eye candy enabled. I guess you run the card at 1440p at insanely high FPS, but considering that DLSS 4 will give you those FPS even at 4K, the only reason why you would want to do that is if you really want the highest latency with the lowest FPS.”

Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-founders-edition/46.html
 
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GN, Linus, and Jay have reviews up, too.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWSlOC_jiLQ

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q82tQJyJwgk

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulUZ7bf_MXI

After scanning those 3, it seems like the consensus is that it's typically 25-35% faster than the 4090, Nvidia padded their presentation with shaky comparisons, it's power hungry, and it's expensive...but a good product if you have the $.

How much spare cash ya got? Anyhow
 
Yeah looks to be around 30%ish more performance for 25% more power.

SUPER CPU limited at 1440p. You NEED a 9800x3d if you play at 1440p and want a 5090...

Kind of Meh to be honest.
What about at 4K
 
I'm sure it's still CPU limited at 4k a lot of times, but no faster CPU exists... and Intel seems out of the race, so nothing you can do about it.
 
"35% more performance with 25% higher power draw"

Nice, spares me the aggravation of battling scalper bots for a FE on Best Buy's janky website. I'll happily spend those two grand on a vacation instead. Looks like the 4090 might be the best longer-term value GPU since the 10i80 Ti.
 
My newsfeed keeps popping up stories about supplies are going to be beyond super limited so the whole thing might end up being moot if we can't actually buy 'em. I'm pretty confident in my online shopping abilities, but no amount of open tabs and pre-loaded accounts are going to matter if they aren't for sale in the first place.
 
Will be interesting to see performance when watercooled and undervolted, hopefully keep the heat output closer to a 4090.
 
Well looks like if you want a low end data center card to game on this is your boy. Really if you got $2200 or so to spend on a GPU... this is the one. (and jokes aside if you are looking to do some AI stuff as an expensive hobby....) If you are not gaming at 4k don't even consider it. If your not running a 9800X3D also forget it. So its the new ultimate card as long as you do not skimp at all.... guess that was expected.
I gotta say though looking at 20-30% more performance at 4k (and everything from regression to 10% or so at 1440) while burning 30% more power I think anyone that was planning to snap up a 4080 when it launches on the same day as reviews. I think you will want to wait for reviews first.
 
Well looks like if you want a low end data center card to game on this is your boy. Really if you got $2200 or so to spend on a GPU... this is the one. (and jokes aside if you are looking to do some AI stuff as an expensive hobby....) If you are not gaming at 4k don't even consider it. If your not running a 9800X3D also forget it. So its the new ultimate card as long as you do not skimp at all.... guess that was expected.
I gotta say though looking at 20-30% more performance at 4k (and everything from regression to 10% or so at 1440) while burning 30% more power I think anyone that was planning to snap up a 4080 when it launches on the same day as reviews. I think you will want to wait for reviews first.
I can't believe that I am saying this - but I am not going to go to Micro Center on day 1. It's fun to hang with fellow nerds...but the AIB cards are looking to be $2200 MSRP and up...I'd rather go FE...but now that beautiful piece of art has its own issues (and probably won't be obtainable). I will just hope that I get an invite to purchase from my "GeForce Advisory Panel" heh.
 
I can't believe that I am saying this - but I am not going to go to Micro Center on day 1. It's fun to hang with fellow nerds...but the AIB cards are looking to be $2200 MSRP and up...I'd rather go FE...but now that beautiful piece of art has its own issues (and probably won't be obtainable). I will just hope that I get an invite to purchase from my "GeForce Advisory Panel" heh.
Look at Steve from gamers nexus go over the thermals on the founders. Ya that is a very impressive cooler. If I did win the lottery... I probably still couldn't justify spending 2k+ on a GPU. :) If I was going to buy one, I mean the partner cards would have to be pretty damn impressive to do better with a 500+ watt GPU. The partner GPU reviews are going to be interesting. I mean how are any of them actually going to bring any value over the founders?
 
Look at Steve from gamers nexus go over the thermals on the founders. Ya that is a very impressive cooler. If I did win the lottery... I probably still couldn't justify spending 2k+ on a GPU. :) If I was going to buy one, I mean the partner cards would have to be pretty damn impressive to do better with a 500+ watt GPU. The partner GPU reviews are going to be interesting. I mean how are any of them actually going to bring any value over the founders?

I can't imagine they will. Do any of them actually have the ability to sell a simple branded version of the FE card or is that proprietary tech?
 
Look at Steve from gamers nexus go over the thermals on the founders. Ya that is a very impressive cooler. If I did win the lottery... I probably still couldn't justify spending 2k+ on a GPU. :) If I was going to buy one, I mean the partner cards would have to be pretty damn impressive to do better with a 500+ watt GPU. The partner GPU reviews are going to be interesting. I mean how are any of them actually going to bring any value over the founders?
Yeah. That $2200 rumored price for an MSI Ventus...I mean, c'mon...it has all finally gone too far for me.

The other challenge is I "self-owned" by selling all of my 4090s early and going with maximum performance/value cards (7900 XT, 4070 SUPER, etc). I'd love to dial Fortnite up to 11 with the RT stuff but man...
 
This one one card where a GPU and PSU bundle would actually make a little sense.
 
I like how Steve gets more puddgy in the face year after year doing PC parts videos.
 
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I can't imagine they will. Do any of them actually have the ability to sell a simple branded version of the FE card or is that proprietary tech?
I believe they are technically allowed to use or recreate NVs design. They won't of course cause... I mean how do you charge more then MSRP if your making stock models. If you charge more for a LED strip or something your going to take some heat. Its going to be interesting to see how partner/Nvidia relations progress. NV is making it hard for them to justify premium product. I'm sure they'll get away with it this round, they have no real competition after all. I wonder if at some point NV caves or something and lets partners release the TI versions, and NV founders are the non TI. NV is going to have to throw them some sort of bone at some point. Maybe.
 
I like how Steve gets more puddgy in the face year after year doing PC parts videos.
It's not as bad as gamers nexass dude playing with his hair every 5 seconds and bouncing his man boobs when he talks.
 
Yap, which is NOT good for FPS competitive shooters. I don't think it will be a huge issue with a single player game though.

So, yeah it proves all this frame-gen shit they tried to push was to hide the....not great performance uplift this generation.
Most comp shooters I played didn't even have it as an option. And stuff like OW or valorant already can run extremely high fps without it.
 
Yap, which is NOT good for FPS competitive shooters. I don't think it will be a huge issue with a single player game though.

So, yeah it proves all this frame-gen shit they tried to push was to hide the....not great performance uplift this generation.
Most competitive FPS games though aren’t pushing graphics to a place that you’d likely need to enable frame gen on a card like this, even at 4k.
They just aren’t pushing things that hard, unless I missed something, I missed something didn’t I…
 
The number of important titles, the 5090's 0.1% lows are higher than the 4090's averages is truly impressive.

I am going to try to get my hands on one. No idea if I will be successful. They are bound to be near unobtainable, and targets for scalpers.
 
I'm still tempted to get one since I'd like to upgrade from the 3090, thought I really have no reason to.
 
5090 Noise Level when gaming: 40 dBA
4090 Noise Level when gaming: 35 dBA

ew.
 
5090 Noise Level when gaming: 40 dBA
4090 Noise Level when gaming: 35 dBA

ew.

Using these with the stock cooler is a fail anyway.

Like, if you aren't planning on ripping that stock cooler off and replacing it with a water block for a custom loop, what are you even doing?

These are extreme cards for extreme systems.
 
Yeah looks to be around 30%ish more performance for 25% more power.

SUPER CPU limited at 1440p. You NEED a 9800x3d if you play at 1440p and want a 5090...

Kind of Meh to be honest.

To be fair, the kind of guy who will shell out $2000+ for a GPU for 1440p will almost invariably have a 9800x3D.
 
So, yeah it proves all this frame-gen shit they tried to push was to hide the....not great performance uplift this generation.

Looking at pure performance, going from the 4090 to 5090, we are seeing the expected 30%-35% performance increase, which isn't a bad generational performance increase.

It's not as crazy as the 4090 was over the 3090, but that was an outlier.

The fact that in many graphically demanding titles at 4k ultra, the 5090's 0.1% lows are higher than the 4090's average is HUGE.

I agree that frame gen is useless and intended to hide something, but I don't think it is the generational performance increase. What they are trying to hide is the piss poor value and how expensive GPU's have become.
 
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