The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is finally here. Everyone in the tech space has at least heard something about Nvidia’s most powerful graphics card yet. The company stole the show earlier this year at CES, the biggest technology conference in the world, when it announced the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU.
Now, the reviews are coming out from outlets that have had a chance to give the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 a spin. While Mashable hasn’t tested the GPU out ourselves, our sibling publication PC Mag did! And we poured through reviews from multiple other outlets as well.
Mashable found that each outlet had plenty to say about the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090. To make things easier, here are some findings we’ve found constant in all the reviews.
RTX 5090 is a ‘beast’
Gamers who are looking for the best of the best, look no further than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090.
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.
Most consumers will just not notice a difference unless they have a really high-end 4K gaming monitor with a 240Hz refresh rate. And even then, the current generation of AAA games on the market aren’t utilizing the RTX 5090 to its full potential.
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“The games just aren’t there yet,” IGN said about users looking to upgrade their gaming PCs.
If you’re looking to future proof your gaming PC though, the slate of next generation games will likely take advantage of at least some of what the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 has to offer.
DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation makes a big difference
The RTX 5090’s AI-generated multi-frame feature has all the reviewers talking about it.
Basically, Nvidia has a suite of tools called deep learning super sampling or DLSS which basically uses AI to improve image quality and boost frame rate. This isn’t entirely new from Nvidia. However, the latest version in the RTX 5090, DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation, apparently takes it to a whole new level.
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Basically, Nvidia is now able to insert 3 AI-generated frames for every one “real” frame in order to increase the FPS on a game and in turn making it much smoother and more realistic looking.
According to the reviews, it works extremely well. The one drawback here is, again, a user would need a high-end 4K monitor to really see the difference.
Expect GeForce RTX 5090 to be hard to find
Of course, these are two relevant pieces of every Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 review.
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is expensive at $1,999 for the Founders Edition. That’s hundreds of dollars more than its predecessor. In fact, consumers can easily buy an entire gaming computer right now for around half the price of the graphics card alone. Plus, that also doesn’t include any markups from third-party retailers and sellers.
And that last bit is very relevant because regardless of that nearly $2,000 pricepoint, this thing is going to be hard to find. Between gamers and its AI processing use cases, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is going to be in high demand. So, if you really want one, get ready to shell out a premium for it.
