Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 could be up to 70% faster than the 4090, but the best chips may be reserved for AI
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card has been the subject of many rumors since last year, and the latest gives us two new surprising details about what we can expect from the possible next generation graphics card.
The RTX 5090 will most likely be based on the Nvidia Blackwell architecture and according to the YouTube tech account Moore’s law is dead, could be up to 70% faster than the current generation RTX 4090 graphics card. This is an absolutely huge leap in performance, which would make one of the best PC games on the market today a breeze.
Previous rumors had estimated the performance jump for the RTX 5090 to be almost twice as fast as the RTX 4090, so this is another data point in favor of that piece of speculation. But as with all rumors, some skepticism is warranted until we can measure that performance ourselves.
This performance boost would likely come from a whopping 192 streaming multiprocessors in the RTX 5090 (a 50% increase over the RTX 4090’s 128), giving the card 24,576 CUDA cores, 192 ray tracing cores, and 768 tensor cores. gets nuclei. In other words, if any of these rumors come true, this card will be a real behemoth.
However, this spike in speed between the cards would literally come at a high price. The same report suggests that the 5090 could end up costing between $2,000 and $2,500, with other possible prices including a $1,000 RTX 5080 card, a $700 RTX 5070 card, a $700 RTX 5060 card 400 and then a budget RTX 5050 Ti card for around $300. .
Despite the performance and cost, these might not even be the best cards Nvidia can offer. There’s another prediction that the card most likely won’t have a full-featured die, as Nvidia will almost certainly save its most powerful cards for the booming AI market, the same market the tech giant launched. make a trillion dollars stratosphere last year.
Nvidia seems unchallenged
It will be fascinating to see how Nvidia’s focus on AI this generation will influence the development of graphics cards in this next generation. We could have some obscenely powerful cards coming our way and yet the dice won’t even be fully enabled for the sake of the AI market for gamers, which really boggles the mind.
And then there’s the fact that even knowing this, Team Green can charge as much for this card if AMD fails to produce a graphics card of comparable caliber. And given the speculation that AMD won’t even attempt to enter the premium GPU market with its next-gen RDNA 4 architecture, it doesn’t seem likely that anything will be able to limit the rising prices for Nvidia’s graphics cards.