GeForce RTX 5090
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How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
Performance breakdown
FPS Across Resolutions
Average FPS across all PC games
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($1999) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
What Owners Say
Owners love the huge jump in raw performance and the massive VRAM for 8K or heavy workloads. The usual gripe is the absurd power draw and heat, requiring a top-tier PSU and case cooling.
- Heats your room like a space heater
- Can run any game at max settings
- Massive VRAM for heavy creative work
- Needs a nuclear power plant PSU
- Runs hot and needs massive cooling
- Huge power draw strains your PSU
- Huge size may not fit cases
Supported technologies
Full specifications
- Architecture
- Blackwell 2.0
- Process node
- 5 nm
- Transistors
- 92.2 B
- SM Count
- 170
- Release date
- 2025
- Launch price
- $1999
- CUDA Cores
- 21,760
- RT Cores
- 170
- Tensor Cores
- 680
- TMUs
- 680
- ROPs
- 176
- L2 cache
- 96 MB
- Size
- 32 GB
- Type
- GDDR7
- Bus width
- 512-bit
- Bandwidth
- 1790 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 1750 MHz
- Base clock
- 2017 MHz
- Boost clock
- 2407 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 104.8 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 104.8 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 424 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 1636.8 GTexel/s
- TDP
- 575W
- Suggested PSU
- 1100W
- Power connectors
- 1x 16-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 5.0 x16
- Length
- 304 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1b
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 Ultimate (12_2)
- Shader Model
- 6.8
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 3.0
- Vulkan
- 1.4
- CUDA
- 12.0
Our verdict on the RTX 5090
A ludicrously fast, power-hungry flagship GPU with a massive memory buffer that runs hot enough to test your PSU and cooling.
Get it if you're a pro creator or 8K gamer who needs the absolute fastest card and has a 1000W PSU ready. Skip it if you game at 1440p or 4K—the 5080 gives you near-identical performance for way less money and heat.
Buy it if…
- You are a pro gamer who needs max fps at 4K with ray tracing on.
- You do heavy 3D rendering or AI work and need tons of VRAM.
- You want the absolute fastest card money can buy, no compromises.
Its place in the overall top
548 votes