With the launch of the RTX 5090 just around the corner, we’re going to be hearing more and more rumors and news about it. Just recently, we heard hints about the GPU‘s surface area, up on the 4090, and now we’re hearing about its performance. Of course, these are just rumors, so watch out for extravagant percentages!
50 to 70% more performance for the RTX 5090?
In broad terms, the RTX 5090 will represent the future spearhead of the NVIDIA range. With this card, we can expect all the latest in GPU technology, including DLSS4 support. In fact, the card should benefit from a PCIe 5.0 x16 bus (enough to justify its usefulness on recent motherboards), GDDR7 memory (32 GB) offering high bandwidth, etc. In fact, the card’s specifications are quite impressive, with 170 SM and 21,760 cuda core, up 32.8% on the RTX 4090.
Of course, the price is likely to sting. While the RTX 4090 had a starting price of $1,599, the newcomer’s price could be as high as $2,000. In short, this point is still being debated, so we’ll see what happens at launch in late January 2025, or at CES if the price is announced.
Finally, let’s talk about the card’s performance, which in rasterization should be 50-70% higher than the current-generation RTX 4090. As for ray tracing, performance is said to be 2 to 3 times better. In short, to be taken with a pinch of salt.
