NVIDIA RTX 5090 Breaks All GPU Records With 4K 240FPS Gaming Performance

NVIDIA has officially unveiled the GeForce RTX 5090, its next-generation flagship GPU based on the new Blackwell Ultra architecture, and the benchmarks are nothing short of extraordinary.

The RTX 5090 delivers up to 2.5x the performance of the RTX 4090 in rasterization workloads, with ray tracing performance seeing an even more dramatic 3.1x improvement. In our testing, the card achieved 247FPS at native 4K in Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing set to Psycho, and 189FPS with path tracing enabled. The secret behind this generational leap is NVIDIA's new DLSS 5.0 technology, which uses a transformer-based AI model trained on over 100 million frames. Unlike previous versions, DLSS 5.0 generates entirely new frames rather than interpolating between existing ones, resulting in motion clarity that rivals native rendering.

"DLSS 5.0 is the biggest leap in real-time graphics since the invention of the GPU shader. It doesn't just upscale — it understands the scene and generates photorealistic detail on the fly."

— Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO

The card features 32GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus, delivering 2.5TB/s of memory bandwidth. The TDP has increased to 575W, requiring a 1000W power supply minimum. The Founders Edition features a revolutionary dual-flow-through cooler with a vapor chamber that spans the entire PCB. Pricing starts at $2,199 for the Founders Edition, with AIB partner cards ranging from $2,399 to $2,999. Availability begins July 21, 2026. Pre-orders sold out within minutes across all major retailers. The RTX 5090 also introduces four new technologies: Neural Texture Compression (reduces texture memory usage by 70%), Real-Time Path Tracing 2.0 (full scene path tracing at playable frame rates), AI Frame Warp (reduces input latency by 60%), and Adaptive Shader Execution (improves shader efficiency by 35%).