That extra processing power naturally translates to better performance, making the RTX 5090 the new king of 4K gaming. It’s a $1,999 GPU for anyone who wants the best 4K gaming experience, developers interested in AI performance, and creators who want to accelerate video editing.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is a powerful upgrade to an already overpowered enthusiast-grade GPU, and in a lot of ways, this card is so good that it's largely superfluous for just about anyone who isn't in it for the pure flex of owning it.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is one of the most powerful (and expensive) graphics cards ever, and uses AI to further enhance its gaming performance.

A $2,000 video card for consumers shouldn't exist. The GeForce RTX 5090, like the $1,599 RTX 4090 before it, is more a flex by NVIDIA than anything truly meaningful for most gamers. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said as much when he revealed the GPU at CES 2025,

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 is the fastest PC graphics card money can buy, and it asserts the company’s dominance in a product category that it founded itself on so many years ago.

Finding an RTX 5090 FE at MSRP would be lucky, but does anyone really need this power-hungry monster with its heightened temperatures?