The most powerful of Nvidia's newest Blackwell graphics cards is a " beast ." Review after review has brought up benchmarks showcasing that when it comes to gaming, the RTX 5090 blows its predecessors and other graphics cards away. However, it appears that for many consumers, the RTX 5090 is overkill.

Despite its power demand of 575W, a significant increase over the RTX 4090, Nvidia has managed to shrink the card's form factor. The dual-slot chassis incorporates an innovative cooling solution, maintaining temperatures below 86°C under load.

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Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 is the most brutally fast graphics card ever introduced, augmented by new DLSS 4 technology that feels like magic. But you pay dearly for it.

The GPU itself is a decent improvement over the RTX 4090, with more, faster memory, more cores, and a gorgeous chassis. But in terms of brute force rendering it's only incrementally faster in comparison with the performance bumps from Turing to Ampere to Ada.

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 starts at $1,999 before you factor in upsells from the company's partners or price increases driven by scalpers and/or genuine demand. It costs more than my entire gaming PC.

The GeForce RTX 5090 is a 4K gaming beast, but there's more to the story. From DLSS 4 to Neural Rendering, the AI-enhanced future of gaming is here.

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 are set to release later this month, and there’s no doubt that they’ll end up being some of the of the year. Unfortunately, it also seems that they might be hard to come by,

If you recall a couple of years and several centuries ago when the RTX 4090 launched, a bunch of them melted. Okay, that’s hyperbolic, but a small but notable number of 40-series cards had issues with the new 12VHPWR connector setup that caused cards to short out and fail.