Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs are just around the corner, with the first releases — the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 — dropping on January 30th. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will follow that with their own releases in February, but some are already getting a sneak peek at the GPUs’ software benefits through DLSS 4.

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 just hit PC Labs for some early benchmarking. How does it stack up against the reigning king of graphics cards? So far, it's a beast.

That extra processing power naturally translates to better performance, making the RTX 5090 the new king of 4K gaming. It’s a $1,999 GPU for anyone who wants the best 4K gaming experience, developers interested in AI performance, and creators who want to accelerate video editing.

The RTX 5090 is the most insane graphics card Nvidia has ever released, and that's exactly why it's so impressive.

Meet the new flagship Nvidia graphics card, as we compare the cooler design to the RTX 4090, and look at the new packaging as well.

At a glance Expert's Rating Pros ・By far the fastest gaming performance ever, even ray traced ・DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation makes games so snappy and smooth, they feel like new — it’s truly game-changing ・Huge 32GB of GDDR7 with tons of bandwidth ・Tightly engineered Founders Edition model somehow squeezes into a fairly quiet two-slot design Cons