NVIDIA

GeForce RTX 5090

£3,180New Unit

Current Market Price

Overview

The GeForce RTX 5090 is NVIDIA's flagship Blackwell graphics card and the most powerful consumer GPU released to date, priced at $1999. It succeeds the RTX 4090 and sits at the apex of the RTX 5000 generation, representing the full extent of what the Blackwell architecture delivers in a single-GPU configuration.

It is equipped with 32GB of GDDR7 memory and carries 4th-generation ray-tracing cores and 5th-generation Tensor cores at the highest configurations available in the consumer lineup. DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation allows multiple AI-generated frames per rendered frame, enabling frame rates at 4K that would otherwise be unattainable. AV1 hardware encoding is included. At 575W TDP, the card requires a high-end power supply and substantial case airflow.

The RTX 5090 is built for 4K and 8K gaming with ray tracing fully enabled, and for professional-grade workloads including 3D rendering, video production, and AI inference tasks that benefit from large, fast VRAM. It targets users for whom maximum performance is the priority and cost is a secondary consideration.

Technical Specifications

Architecture & Cores

Architecture
Blackwell
Process Node
TSMC 4N
CUDA Cores
21,760
RT Cores
170
Tensor Cores
680

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
2,010 MHz
Boost Clock
2,407 MHz

Memory

VRAM Capacity
32 GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
Memory Bus
512-bit
Memory Speed
28 Gbps
Bandwidth
1,792 GB/s

Connectivity & Power

Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
TDP
575 W
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Released
Jan 30, 2025

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