NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review & Benchmarks: Gaming, Thermals, & Power
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The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs launch next week, but reviews can go up today. This benchmark and review of the RTX 5090 Founders Edition video card evaluates the gaming performance vs. the RTX 4090, RX 7900 XTX, RTX 3090 Ti & 3090, RTX 2080 Ti, and more. AMD has an RX 9070 and 9070 XT coming up, which will likely aim to compete in some capacity with NVIDIA's Blackwell RTX 5070 and/or 5070 Ti. For launch though, NVIDIA will ship the RTX 5080 and 5090 on the same day. These benchmarks look at rasterized gaming performance, ray tracing, power consumption and efficiency, thermal testing, acoustics, and Schlieren imaging of the 5090 Founders Edition cooler.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU Review and Benchmarks
01:46 - A Lot of Testing Plans
02:46 - Founders Edition Design
04:10 - RTX 5090 Price, Alternatives
06:05 - Testing Methodology and Bench
06:43 - Founders Edition Thermal Benchmarks RTX 5090
08:16 - Acoustic Testing, Noise Levels, Sample
09:42 - Schlieren Imaging and Airflow
12:18 - IT WORKS - Schlieren
13:36 - Frequency Validation
14:28 - Gaming Benchmarks: FFXIV 4K
16:13 - FFXIV 1440p GPU Benchmarks (RTX 5090 vs 4090)
16:43 - FFXIV 1080p GPU Comparison
17:35 - Black Myth Wukong 4K Test
18:53 - Black Myth Wukong 1440p Benchmarks
19:23 - Black Myth Wukong 1080p Graphics Card Comparison
20:11 - Starfield 4K RTX 5090 vs RX 7900 XTX, RTX 3090 Ti
20:56 - Starfield 1440p RTX 5090 vs 2080 Ti, 3090
21:19 - Starfield 1080p
21:36 - Dragon's Dogma 2 4K Benchmarks
22:30 - Dragon's Dogma 2 1440p Benchmarks
22:50 - Dragon's Dogma 2 1080p Benchmarks
23:10 - Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty 4K Ultra Benchmarks
24:11 - Cyberpunk 1440p RTX 5090 Benchmark
24:48 - Dying Light 2 4K Benchmarks
25:41 - Dying Light 2 1440p
26:00 - Resident Evil 4 4K Benchmarks
26:29 - Resident Evil 4 1440p
26:59 - Resident Evil 4 1080p
27:22 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth 4K Upscaling
28:19 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth 1080p Benchmarks
28:54 - Ray Tracing: Dragon's Dogma 2 4K
29:23 - Ray Tracing: Dragon's Dogma 2 1440p, 1080p
30:00 - Ray Tracing: Dying Light 2 4K Upscaling
30:37 - Ray Tracing: Dying Light 2 1440p
30:58 - Ray Tracing: Dying Light 2 1080p
31:24 - Ray Tracing: Resident Evil 4 4K, 1440p
31:50 - Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 4K Ultra, Medium
32:30 - POWER: Idle
33:45 - POWER: FFXIV 4K Efficiency
34:35 - POWER: FFXIV 1440p Efficiency
35:01 - POWER: F1 24 RT 4K RTX 5090 Efficiency
35:38 - Conclusion, Marketing BS
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Steve Burke: Writing, Test Lead
Patrick Lathan: Testing
Mike Gaglione: Testing, Editing
Jeremy Clayton: QC, Testing
Tim Phetdara: Camera