NVIDIA
GeForce RTX 5090
Lowest price in United States across retailers
Last updated Aug 1, 2026
Price History & Tracker
GeForce RTX 5090 price history in United States: current low $1,825 USD, 12-month low $1,300 USD, 12-month median $2,979 USD.
GeForce RTX 5090 Price Summary
Is now a good time to buy?
Yes — at $1,825 USD, the GeForce RTX 5090 is 51% below its typical 3-month price of $3,740 USD (12-month median $2,979 USD). An excellent time to buy.
Retail Prices
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
How does the GeForce RTX 5090 run popular games?
Fortnite
Excellent 120+711–961 fpsView report →
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