NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
GPUs

GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition

NVIDIA

Released Jan 1, 2025 · Analysis updated Mar 4, 2026

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition scores 83/100 based on 4 expert reviews in the gpus category. Coverage includes reviews from Pcmag, Tomshardware, Pcper, and Gamersnexus.

Critic Score

What's this?
83

based on 4 expert reviews

PcmagTomshardwarePcperGamersnexus

Low confidence · only 4 reviews

Where to buy

amazon$3,795.00

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Pros

  • 32gb of gddr7 memory(3)

Cons

  • High idle power consumption at 46w(2)

4 Expert Reviews

90
Jan 29, 2025

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is exceptionally powerful but forbiddingly expensive.

85
Jan 23, 2025

Nvidia's RTX 5090 marks the debut of the new Blackwell architecture, with new features, higher performance, more memory, and a lot more bandwidth.

85
Jan 23, 2025

NVIDIA's RTX 5090 Founders Edition delivers excellent performance gains and impressive engineering in a dual-slot design, though the 25% price increase and high power consumption may give some buyers ...

72
Jan 24, 2025

The RTX 5090 offers solid 20-50% performance gains over the 4090 at 4K but suffers from misleading marketing, warm memory temps, and diminishing returns at lower resolutions.