Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090: Brutally fast, but DLSS 4 is the game changer

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

BY BRAD CHACOS

The wait is finally over. The long-awaited GeForce RTX 5090 landed on store shelves at the start of this year—and friends, the flagship graphics card for Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture is an absolute monster. It should be for $2,000, of course. While the RTX 5090’s leap in raw gaming performance isn’t anywhere as massive as the 4090’s was over its predecessor, it blows the pants off any GPU we’ve ever seen before, with no notable flaws in its technical configuration. But while raw gaming performance is welcome, I suspect that the GeForce RTX 50-series will live or die on the back of DLSS 4, a new generation of Nvidia’s vaunted AI-powered performance-boosting technologies. A lot of Blackwell’s improvements were focused on Nvidia’s AI tensor cores, and Blackwell was designed hand-in-hand to…

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