RTX 5090 BENCHMARKS

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The first RTX 5090 Benchmarks are here!

Uplift vs the 4090 in many synthetic benchmarks is of around 30 to 35%, going over that in a few tests. Still, it seems smaller in gaming until we start talking about what may be the biggest selling point of the 50 generation: DLSS4 and multi frame gen, with the current betas being able to get to 4x frame gen with the 5090 and FPS scores that defy our current comprehension of what makes a frame "real" and how hardware scaling and generation can combat possible latency. ⁠

How do you feel about DLSS4 multi-frame generation, and the discussion of "real" and "fake" frames?⁠ That is a question that has baffled many member of our community, simply because it is often hard to understand what the real gains are. For too long we've been accustomed to measuring performance simply by framerate, but perhaps this needs to be only one of the many ways to do so, perhaps not quite for the RTX 50 generation, but certainly very soon.

This will be a fun generation of cards to test, as soon as the te. technology is widely adopted (Nvidia says that 75 games will natively support it at launch, with more coming).⁠

Also interesting is how cool such a small (comparatively) card is. At 100% fan speed, temps are very similar, while the 5090 uses quite a bit more wattage. With default fan speeds, it retains its cool temps (the 4090 not so much) and is relatively quieter than its last-generation counterpart.⁠

Looks at the size difference between the 5090 (top) and the 4090 (bottom) versions of the Founders Edition

Since we're on the topic of temperatures, it seems that NVIDIA has dropped support for hotspot measurements, which may make it harder to test thermals on the 5090s. Temperature junction and general GPU temperature sensors are still there.

Performance-wise, there is absolutely no doubt that the NVIDIA RTX 5090 is the best gaming GPU ever made, and now with AMD dropping out from the race for the #1 GPU, it seems like it will be so for at least a couple of years, unless NVIDIA decides to give us a 5090 Ti or Super in the near future.