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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

by NVIDIA

The uncontested halo card: 32GB of GDDR7 and brute-force 4K performance, if you can find one at a sane price.

Pros

  • Fastest consumer GPU available by a wide margin
  • 32GB VRAM is class-leading for AI and 8K content work
  • Full DLSS 4 / Multi Frame Generation support

Cons

  • Severe price gouging: street prices frequently $3,000-$4,000 vs $1,999 MSRP
  • 575W power draw demands a high-wattage PSU and strong cooling
  • Poor price-to-performance versus the 5080 for pure gaming

✓ Where it shines / best for

  • No-compromise 4K/8K enthusiast gaming
  • AI/ML researchers and developers needing 32GB VRAM
  • Professional 3D, VFX and video production

✕ Not the best fit for

  • Budget or mainstream builds
  • Small-form-factor or low-wattage PSUs (very high power)
  • Casual 1080p/1440p gamers (overkill)

Features

  • ✓ Blackwell flagship with 21,760 CUDA cores
  • ✓ 32GB GDDR7 on a 512-bit bus
  • ✓ DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation
  • ✓ 5th-gen Tensor cores and 4th-gen RT cores
  • ✓ 575W TGP, 16-pin (12V-2x6) power, PCIe 5.0
  • ✓ 9th-gen NVENC triple encoders with AV1
  • ✓ Top-tier 4K/8K gaming and large AI/ML workloads

Pricing

PlanPriceBillingNotes
MSRP (Founders Edition)$1,999one-time32GB model; launch MSRP Jan 30, 2025. Street prices frequently well above MSRP.

Pricing verified from the official source. Prices change often — confirm on the vendor's site before buying.

Specifications

power575W TDP
memory32GB GDDR7, 512-bit, 1,792 GB/s
compute~105 TFLOPS FP32
connector16-pin 12V-2x6
interfacePCIe 5.0
cuda_cores21,760
boost_clock2.41 GHz
architectureBlackwell (TSMC 4NP)
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