The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 has emerged as the most powerful consumer GPU on the market. Although with this generation Nvidia has prioritized software updates, AI features, and DLSS 4 technology to improve gameplay performance, the 5090 still boasts an impressive 25%-30% uplift over the RTX 4090 in hardware-based raster performance. If you want the absolute best performance for your gaming PC, there is literally no other option from any other brand.
The 5090 is also the gold standard for anyone who works with AI doesn't want to get a workstation graphics card. That's because it has 32GB of VRAM, the most of any consumer graphics card. The RTX 4090, by comparision, has 24GB of older GDDR6 VRAM and the RTX 5080 has even less at 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM. A dedicated Nvidia workstation card has even more memory, but they are also egregiously expensive (several thousand dollars) and not meant for gamers.
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