NVIDIA RTX 5090 / NVIDIA
The first tests of the NVIDIA RTX 5090 FE video card in games show that a 4K 120 FPS monitor becomes truly useful in games for the first time. There is also a very significant difference between games.
The site TechPowerUp, which conducted the mentioned tests, writes about a “35% performance increase compared to the RTX 4090”, although graphs suggest that the average is closer to 25%. But there is a large spread of values — from +13% to +53%. The RTX 5090 FE loses a few percent less performance with ray tracing turned on than its predecessor. The fastest AMD video card RX 7900 XTX significantly lags in performance with RT by 2.5 times. The image scaling with DLSS 4 is very high quality: “I tested the ‘Transformers’ [scaling model] and fell in love”.
Among the negative aspects, the testers noted the high cost of the video card, comparatively high power consumption in standby modes, video playback, or when connecting multiple monitors. The 5090 FE fans are noticeably noisy, and the memory overclocking is limited by the driver.
The test graphs show that the biggest difference in performance from its predecessor, NVIDIA RTX 5090, is achieved at 4K resolution. The dreamed 120 FPS or thereabouts were shown by about half the games, and most of those that did not, caught up to 90 FPS. Also, be prepared to pay for electricity — RTX 5090 can consume over 600 Watts in heavy modes.