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The $1999 Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 makes the rest of the RTX 50 series look suspiciously sensibleThere’s a trick going on here, and it ain’t just DLSS 4
There’s a trick going on here, and it ain’t just DLSS 4
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Image credit:Nvidia
Last night, atCES 2025, Nvidia finally announced their RTX 50 seriesgraphics cards, and can I just say that I am wise to the RTX 5090’s tricks. A GPU that eats up to 575W and costs £1939 / $1999? Yeah, nice try, Geoffrey N. Vidia, but such a mad card couldn’t possibly exist in reality. It’s clearly only here to make the other ones, the RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070, look like better deals.
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Here’s the key specs and the pricing, which with the exception of the RTX 5090, actually stoops lower than each model’s RTX 40 series equivalent. TheRTX 4080, for instance, launched at £1269 / $1199, while theRTX 4070started from £589 / $599. Only the RTX 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti get VRAM capacity upgrades, though all four are switching to the newer, faster GDDR7.
Given that theRTX 4090currently struggles with precisely nothing, even the enforced ray tracing ofIndiana Jones and the Great Circleat 4K, it’s hard to see the RTX 5090 as anything other than a two-grand solution to a problem that never existed. The rest, though? Could be worse, could be worse. It took the RTX 40 series half a generation to fix its affordability mistakes with a new batch of RTX Supers, and these new GPUs are either cheaper or no more expensive. They’re all a damn sight less than the RTX 5090, at any rate. Ah, there, see, they did it again.
Much like how the RTX 40 series got you exclusive usage of DLSS 3, the RTX 50 series also enables DLSS 4, which adds a ‘Multi-Frame Generation’ feature that can essentially create up to three AI frames for every rendered one. As opposed to DLSS 3, which can just generate up to one extra frame per regular frame. It’s already set for support in 75 games, a decent majority ofthose that currently work with DLSS 3, and its proposed benefits come down to simple maths: more generated frames equals higher framerates, and in turn, better visual smoothness.
Black Myth: Wukong | DLSS 4 Announce Video - Captured on GeForce RTX 5090Watch on YouTube
Black Myth: Wukong | DLSS 4 Announce Video - Captured on GeForce RTX 5090
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Reflex 2 will launch alongside the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 when they release on January 30th, though future updates will add support for older RTX graphics cards. Hopefully more games as well, as onlyThe Finalsand Valorant currently have Reflex 2 ‘coming soon.’.
Still, there are worse things to do with generative AI. Like, uh, PUBG Ally, the creepily subservient “Co-Playable Character” built with theNvidia ACENPC toolkit that lets you bring the Dead Internet theory directly into your battle royales.
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I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
