The test was also a testament to the power of Nvidia’s upcoming multi-frame generation. With DLSS 4 and 4x frame generation enabled, as well as DLSS set to Performance, the RTX 5090 was hitting a whopping 290 fps and over 40ms of latency. This was with Nvidia’s Reflex 1, as Reflex 2 wasn’t available for this test.

Blender result puts NVIDIA's RTX 5090 graphics card at around a third faster than the RTX 4090, although the RTX 5090D is somewhat off that pace.

For many, specs will be the main point of comparison between the RTX 5090 and RTX 4090. That makes sense given that the Blackwell GPU will use a shiny new architecture paired with 32GB of faster GDDR7 VRAM and enhanced AI abilities, but it's worth noting that on-paper figures don't always translate performance-wise.

Nvidia hasn't announced the RTX 5060 yet, but I'm already worried about how the card will perform when it shows up.

DLSS 4 performance for the GeForce RTX 50 Series. And outside of the RTX 5090 we're looking at 15-20% gains over the RTX 40 Series.

Kicking things off with the RTX 5090 laptop GPU, Nvidia has packed this beast with 10,496 CUDA cores for 84 Streaming Multiprocessors, almost mirroring the desktop RTX 5080. Employing 3GB GDDR7 modules likely from Samsung, the RTX 5090 laptop GPU is packaged with 24GB of VRAM despite the 256-bit interface.

So, armed with that caution – and also the knowledge that this is all translated from German, so some accuracy may be lost in that process – the broad assertion is that stock

Set to be released on January 31st, the new Nvidia RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 are nearly ready to be scooped up, but will you be able to get one?