GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review: Exploring RTX Blackwell

Just as Nvidia is a leader in artificial intelligence accelerators of knowledge media, NVIDIA has been leader in PC graphics for years and generations of products. When the company announced its next series of GEFORCE RTX 50 graphics cards based on its architecture of GPU Blackwell in CES in Las Vegas this year, there is no doubt about whether Nvidia would have the most resistant product of the market, competitively, when the cards are sent To the players at the end of this month. However, the main points and the nuance of the new geforce RTX 5090, which is the first to be released, had to wait for today’s embargo.

Then, without further ado, he greets the new GEFORCE RTX 5090 FOUNDERS EDITION graphics card for players, enthusiasts and creators in PC, then let’s analyze what is available and what we can expect.

We won’t go into too much detail here, but it’s safe to say that Nvidia has built its RTX Blackwell GPU architecture from scratch to enable complex rendering technologies, such as deep learning super sampling with neural shaders, which use AI for enhanced visuals and performance. In addition, Blackwell’s fourth-generation shelf tracking cores are also designed to take care of popular geometry and megageometry clusters, as well as greater constancy and higher efficiency, while its fifth-generation tensioner cores are now FPfour accurate for doubled flow for DLSS four and AI Char loading in general.

Shader Execution Reordering has been improved in Blackwell by up to 2X, and Nvidia’s new GPU architecture has also been bolstered with a new memory controller that, when coupled with 32GB of GDDR7 memory, offers twice the bandwidth of GDDR6, at up to 1.8TBps (for RTX 5090) with better power efficiency as well. Finally, and not that my short list here is exhaustive, but different blocks of Nvidia’s RTX Blackwell architecture can enter deeper sleep states and wake from those sleep states much faster than the company’s previous gen Ada architecture, with advanced clock gating, power gating and voltage rail gating. In fact, Blackwell’s entire clock tree can be disabled while the GPU is still active, so if other parts of the board like memory are idle, additional power can be saved. Again, these are just a few of the advancements in RTX Blackwell, but if you want an even deeper dive, head on over to my colleague Marco’s coverage at HotHardware for the full download.

There’s been a lot of talk about this topic on the gaming network, so let’s tackle it head-on. NVIDIA has been making ambitious functionality claims for its GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs, with CEO Jensen Huang comparing its new $549 GeForce RTX 5070 to the company’s $1,599 GeForce RTX four090, noting that they offer similar functionality. The caveat here is that the new RTX 5070 will offer this elegance of functionality with complex technologies that are enabled not only in its chip architecture, but also with new AI rendering techniques like DLSS four with multi-frame generation.

Nvidia DLSS 4 Multi-Frame Generation Technology

Simply put, Nvidia’s previous generation DLSS 3 could only render a single AI-generated frame in a game engine, but now with DLSS 4, the neural network can generate up to three additional frames between traditionally rendered surface images. In addition to the complex frame rate of Blackwell’s built-in demo engine, this provides a significant improvement in the functionality of the GeForce RTX 50 series with DLSS four, compared to the popular GeForce RTX 40 integrated single-frame generation hardware. existent. Of course, purists will argue about “false frames” and the latency inherent in interacting with so many AI-generated photographs in the game. And Nvidia’s new generation Reflex 2 aims to alleviate frame-to-reaction latency, game developers want to help DLSS four and Reflex 2 in their game engines.

In the launch, Nvidia was quick to point out that there are 75 games in the market that will be DLSS four with a generation of multiple chassis, and a list will grow over time, as with the many titles that now pass DLSS versions. However, again, some negative purists in the network will argue that there is no replacement for the force of brute force in classical representation. This is true to the letter, however, the challenge is that as game engines with ray tracking and other complex representation effects become more complicated and computationally intensive, throwing silicon to the challenge, without advancing in techniques of rendering with AI and other algorithmic approaches is temporarily achieving a decreasing performance point.

In fact, conversations with all the major players in the PC graphics sector, AMD, Nvidia and Intel point to the long execution of a generation of AI-aided executives as the way to go. Therefore, the query should not know whether, however, rather know when the game developers and the network of players as a whole will get involved.

Breaking down performance of Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 5090 can be carved up fairly cleanly from three high level angles — traditional raster performance, performance with super-resolution and frame generation, and of course for non-gaming applications, AI inferencing and generative AI performance, as well as content creation.

Anecdotally speaking about the creation of content, my experience with the GeForce RTX 5090 in the video rendering found a significant relief in the transcoding times for my final rendering. This is due to the additional encoder integrated in the GEFORCE RTX 5090; While RTX 4090 has two encoders, RTX Blackwell 5090 has 3, the NVEC of ninth generation of Nvidia. And with that covered, let’s take a look at a rapid mounting of sanity in the yield of AI.

NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 5090 Founders Edition Mlperf AI Token Generation Performance

ML Commons recently launched an edition for PC consumers of its MLPERF AI reference point. Here we see that the GeForce RTX 5090 exceeds its sister 4090 of the previous generation in more than 38%. I will also point out that, in addition to this gain in the performance of the Token, the latency time of the first token has also been reduced by approximately 25 %.

Next, let’s step on the performance of state-of-the-art games, starting with the hugely popular action RPG title, Cyberpunk 2077 in its ultra image quality preset.

GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Performance Edition Cyberpunk 2077 with Ray Tracing and DLSS 4

Here we see the full might of GeForce RTX 5090 Blackwell at play, with the top long bar representing its fastest DLSS 4 rendered frame rate with a 4X frame generation setting in the game. This setting actually renders three AI generated frames, along with a single upscaled frame, in order to maximize performance. If we compare the fastest setting for RTX 4090, which is DLSS with single AI frame generation, we see over a 65% performance lift for RTX 5090 comparably, and nearly 3X the performance of a previous gen GeForce RTX 4090 with no frame generation turned on. Looking at performance with frame generation turned off completely, RTX 5090 is over 22% faster than 4090. And AMD’s fastest Radeon GPU currently isn’t even in the hunt with FSR 3 super resolution enabled (sans frame generation, which is not available for Radeon in this game title).

GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Performance In F1 24, No DLSS

GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Performance In F1 24, DLSS With Frame Gen

The Formula 1 racing sim F1 24 shows a tighter spread in performance for GeForce RTX 5090 versus the previous generation RTX 4090, with about a 37% lift when frame generation is enabled, and a 24% edge with no frame AI frame generation. This game title also shows AMD’s best foot forward for the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, since F1 24 does support AMD Fluid Motion Frames frame generation tech, enabling the Radeon to move up the stack significantly, though it is no match for an RTX 5090.

GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition performance in Black Myth: Wukong, DLSS with Frame Gen

To end with a modern game title, lovely and rich in graphics, Black Myth: Wukong tests all the GPU competition with its pre -established film quality adjustment with full -ray layout. Here, the new GEFORCE RTX 5090 is about 33% faster than RTX 4090 in similar configurations with the generation of enabled tables, while if the generation of pictures deactivates, the gap is reduced to around 28%. Merit for RTX 5090. And vice versa, even with the generation of enabled paintings, the Fascheck Radeon card in the market at this time cannot even reach the frequencies of the reproducible pictures with those configurations in this game title.

By the way, Hothardware is balanced by his complete reference points glove with GeForce RTX 5090, so that everything is the image.

That is, there has been a bit of controversy over the new GeForce RTX 50 series of NVIDIA, even more when it comes to the price, which has risen 25%, to $ 1,999 for the RTX 5090 compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 that was sold for $ 1,599 at the time of launch. There is no doubt that a $ 2000 graphics card is too expensive for many players, but if you have the most powerful and rich product in the market and a large investment in engineering is needed to expand it, you can qualify a price for that product that its Main competition simply cannot. It is that simple.

Then again, if it’s all about the value of a GeForce RTX 5090 founder’s edition, I think it’s missing the point.

IO NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 5090 FOUNDERS EDITION WITH 3 PROPEROS ATPORTS 2. 1B AND AN HDMI PORTARRAY . . [] Port 2. 1

And that ultimately is where the rubber meets the road. Folks in the community will debate the merits of Nvidia’s pricey new top dog graphics card, but you can’t argue the merits of the advanced rendering technologies that RTX Blackwell brings, and the performance and visual fidelity they enable. When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang noted the company’s forthcoming $549 GeForce RTX 5070 will be as fast as its previous generation top-end GeForce RTX 4090, it was with specific intention to illustrate the merits of the AI-assisted rendering techniques the company’s has delivered with this family of PC graphics cards, developer tools and software.

The advancement of PC graphics through AI-generated content is an herbal evolution and the way the industry evolves as a whole, not just Nvidia. However, once again, Nvidia is also at the forefront of GPU architectures, as well as the engineering and software needed to open up this new street of innovation. The new GeForce RTX 5090 is the fastest PC graphics card cash can buy right now, and it reaffirms NVIDIA’s dominance in a product and generation category that the company built on all those years ago.

Dave co -founded and is the main analyst at Hottech Vision and Analysis, a study company of the generation industry that specializes in consulting, validation of checks and marketing methods for the main manufacturers of original equipment (OEM) of chips and formulas. Like all analysis companies, HTVA offers payments, studies and consulting services to many chip brands and manufacturers of original equipment (OEM), in addition to the corporations analyzed in this article. However, this does influence its objective coverage.

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