After months of rumors and reports, as well as a successful CES 2025 debut, we finally get to see the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 – the highly anticipated follow-up to the best graphics card you can buy, the Nvidia RTX 4090.
Reviews have revealed new information about Nvidia‘s newest flagship card, proving that it’s the performance powerhouse it was widely thought to be. With substantially more processing units and as much as 40% more power required to run it, it’s the gamer’s dream GPU.
But what are the full details surrounding Team Green’s BFGPU 3.0? What does the official pricing and availability look like? You can find out all this and more right in one place to help you stay on top of all the new information about the Nvidia RTX 5090.
Nvidia RTX 5090: Cut to the chase
- What is it? Nvidia’s flagship for its next generation of RTX graphics cards
- How much does it cost? $1,999 / £1,939 / AU$4,039
- When can I get it? January 30, 2025
- Where is it available? The RTX 5090 will be available in the US, UK, and Australia at launch
Nvidia RTX 5090: Latest news
Nvidia RTX 5090: Release date
The confirmed official release date for the Nvidia RTX 5090, which was first revealed during the tech giant’s presentation at CES 2025, is on January 30 – in line with earlier rumors and reports.
Due to the global chip shortage easing up, there weren’t any predicted delays for the next-generation chip. Signs pointed to early 2025 according to rumors before the reveal, which tied into the normal 18 to 24-month release cycle that Nvidia usually abides by with its GeForce graphics cards.
Just as predicted by several reports, the RTX 5090 is launching alongside the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080. This also goes against the grain of other reports that alleged the RTX 5090 would be released after the RTX 5080.
Nvidia RTX 5090: Specs
The RTX 5090 comes with 92 billion transistors, next-gen Tensor Cores and Ray Tracing Cores, and more than double the AI processing speed of the 4090.
It also comes with 32GB of shiny new GDDR7 VRAM on a massive 512-bit memory bus and PCIe 5.0 x16 interface (the first card with such), it has an astonishing 1792 GB/s of memory bandwidth, with a memory speed upwards of 23.8 Gbps. It has an absolutely obscene 575W TDP.
All of this makes the RTX 5090 arguably the first 8K graphics card given the amount of VRAM and memory bandwidth it has, which are two key specs that allow a graphics card to process the substantially larger 8K texture files needed for gaming at that resolution.
According to our review, the RTX 5090 boasts some impressive spec upgrades over the RTX 4090:
| Header Cell – Column 0 | Nvidia RTX 5090 | Nvidia RTX 4090 | % Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Process Technology | TSMC 4nm | TSMC 5nm | N/A |
| Transistors (Billion) | 92.2 | 76.3 | 20.83% |
| Compute units | 170 | 128 | 32.81% |
| Shaders | 21760 | 16384 | 32.81% |
| AI/Matrix cores | 680 | 512 | 32.81% |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 170 | 128 | 32.81% |
| Render Output Units | 192 | 176 | 9.09% |
| Texture Mapping Units | 680 | 512 | 32.81% |
| Boost Clock (MHz) | 2407 | 2520 | -4.48% |
| Memory type | GDDR7 | GDDR6X | N/A |
| VRAM (GB) | 32 | 24 | 33.33% |
| VRAM Bus Width | 512 | 384 | 33.33% |
| VRAM Speed (Gbps) | 28 | 21 | 33.33% |
| Bandwidth (GB/s) | 1790 | 1010 | 77.22% |
| TDP (watts) | 575 | 450 | 27.77% |
| PCIe Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 | N/A |
Nvidia RTX 5090: What to expect
The launch date for the RTX 5090 will be on January 30, 2025 and will retail for $1,999 / £1,939 / AU$4,039. It will release on the same day as the RTX 5080, despite previous rumors claiming the latter would come first.
Some other highlights include Nvidia confirming that the RTX 5090 is “not expected” to have any issues with melting power connectors, as seen with the RTX 4090. This is apparently due to the changes made to the 16-pin power connector after the RTX 4090 ran into issues.
It seems, however, that the rumors concerning stock shortages have been piling up. In a report from Wccftech on AMD’s RX 9070 launch, RTX 5090 and 5080 will be short on supply. Apparently, this is “mainly due to some communication issues between Nvidia and add-in card (AIC) partners.”
But in more uplifting news, buyers can look forward to the Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition, which is absolutely gorgeous and comes in packaging that’s much sleeker than the RTX 4090’s.
