The GeForce RTX 5090 is the most powerful consumer graphics card ever made. Gamers can tap into 104.8 TFLOPS of raw FP32 compute from its GB202 GPU, and it brims with AI prowess thanks to 680 Blackwell Tensor Cores that power Nvidia's suite of DLSS 4 upscaling and Multi Frame Generation technologies.
32GB of the latest GDDR7 memory running across a 512-bit bus offers a staggering 1.79 TB/s of memory bandwidth to feed all those compute resources for gaming and AI research alike. No matter how you slice it, this exotic, range-topping Blackwell card is the best of the best—as it ought to be for its $1999 price tag. Here's all the latest news and info about this remarkable product.
Graphics Card | RTX 5090 | RTX 4090 | RTX 3090 | RTX 2080 Ti |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Architecture | GB202 | AD102 | GA102 | TU102 |
Process Technology | TSMC 4N | TSMC 4N | Samsung 8N | TSMC 12FFN |
Transistors (Billion) | 92.2 | 76.3 | 28.3 | 18.6 |
Die size (mm^2) | 750 | 608.4 | 628.4 | 754 |
Boost Clock (MHz) | 2407 | 2520 | 1695 | 1545 |
Bandwidth (GB/s) | 1792 | 1008 | 936 | 616 |
TBP (watts) | 575 | 450 | 350 | 260 |
Launch Date | Jan 2025 | Oct 2022 | Sep 2020 | Sep 2018 |
Launch Price | $1,999 | $1,599 | $1,499 | $1,199 |
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