It's probably obvious, but the number one reason most of us are thinking about spending $2,000 on an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is because it's the most powerful consumer-grade GPU on the market right now.

The GeForce RTX 5090 just hit PC Labs for some early benchmarking. How does it stack up against the reigning king of graphics cards? So far, it's a beast.

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 is the fastest PC graphics card money can buy, and it asserts the company’s dominance in a product category that it founded itself on years ago.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 has officially taken the performance crown from the RTX 4090, but with less force than previous generations. When it comes to traditional non-AI gaming performance, the RTX 5090 provides one of the smallest generational uplifts in recent memory.

At a glance Expert's Rating Pros ・By far the fastest gaming performance ever, even ray traced ・DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation makes games so snappy and smooth, they feel like new — it’s truly game-changing ・Huge 32GB of GDDR7 with tons of bandwidth ・Tightly engineered Founders Edition model somehow squeezes into a fairly quiet two-slot design Cons