Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Review

Price: Approximately ₹1,67,000

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is a powerful upgrade for multimedia creators, offering significant gains in AI processing and native 4:2:2 encoding support. It provides substantial performance improvements in professional workflows like DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro.

Price: approx. 1,67,500 INR

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is an exceptionally powerful, elite-tier graphics card designed for content creators and high-end gaming. While it delivers unmatched performance, its prohibitive price makes it impractical for most casual gamers.

The Aorus RTX 5090 AI Box is a powerful, high-quality external GPU solution that leverages Thunderbolt 5 to significantly boost notebook performance. While it cannot match a desktop-installed RTX 5090, it offers an excellent, compact, and well-cooled package for users needing mobile AI or rendering power.

Price: 4,25,000 INR

The MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z is an extreme, premium-priced GPU designed for collectors and overclockers seeking maximum power limits. It offers unmatched technical specifications, such as a 1000W TGP and 32GB GDDR7, prioritizing exclusivity and symbolic value over standard gaming efficiency.

So, the performance of NVIDIA’s new GPU is laid bare and accounts for DLSS 4, Frame Generation, Ray Tracing and straight rasterisation. But where does that leave me on the ‘Fake Frames’ debate, and what are my overall thoughts on the card? Let’s start with these so-called fake frames because my conclusion rests on that. There is no doubt that frame generation adds additional latency, especially at its most aggressive 4x setting. This is a bit of a mixed bag, as in Cyberpunk 2077, we saw a 16ms increase versus 2ms in Hogwarts Legacy. That, I would argue, makes it a setting you may want to avoid in titles like Apex Legends and Fortnite, whereby latency is of utmost importance.But, and I might be going out on a whim here, I actually think DLSS 4 is fantastic, and the latency trade-off is worth it for the increase in perceived game smoothness in the vast majority of titles. I turn the fake frames argument around and ask this: Would you rather NVIDIA added ever more VRAM and raw compute power to the GPU for, say, an extra 10% rasterisation performance or built an incredible software stack that increases efficiency and leverages centralised machined learning to deliver a far more sizeable, and far more noticeable, frame rate increase in your favourite title? The best bit is if DLSS 1, 2 and 3 are anything to go by – DLSS 4 will only get better. To be clear, I do want to see NVIDIA continue to deliver rasterised performance gains on a generation-by-generation basis – but it would be wrong to pretend they haven’t done this, too. The RTX 5090 delivers more performance than the RTX 4090 in our rasterised test suite and more in synthetic benchmarks too! Had the RTX 5090 been a repackaged RTX 4090 that only added the extra AI compute needed for DLSS 4 support, I would have been disappointed. But it isn’t, and the frenzy around fake frames frankly feels like it has gone a little far. NVIDIA’s software and hardware stack continues getting better, and if (and it’s a BIG if), the superb performance of the RTX 5090 is to set the tone for the remainder of the RTX 5090 lineup, AMD should be even more worried than they were just a few months back.