Nvidia GeForce RT X 5090
The fastest GPU around, but not the huge leap we’d hoped for
Impressive: Nvidia has engineered the new RTX 5090 Founders Edition as a mere dual-slot card.
THERE’S AN ALTERNATIVE 2025 where you get the Nvidia RTX 5090 of your dreams. That’s a timeline where Nvidia has chosen TSMC’s most advanced process nodes, managed to negotiate an unprecedented deal on silicon production, and worked some magic to deliver the same sort of generational rendering performance increases we’ve become used to since the RTX prefix was born.
That would be a 2025 where Nvidia hasn’t slapped a $400 price hike on the most powerful of its new RTX Blackwell graphics cards. But in this timeline, the RTX 5090 is an ultra-enthusiast graphics card that doesn’t quite deliver, thanks to the harsh realities of chip production and Nvidia’s unwillingness to really pull out the stops.