Up close with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 FE, an incredibly compact flagship video card

We mightiness beryllium skeptical of immoderate Nvidia’s claims, for illustration whether a $549 RTX 5070 will genuinely present the capacity of a $1599 RTX 4090. But it’s almost intolerable not to beryllium impressed by the RTX 5090 Founder’s Edition, wherever Nvidia fresh 575 watts of graphics power, including 21,760 CUDA cores and 32GB of GDDR7 memory, into a video paper conscionable 2 slots wide.

It almost has to beryllium seen to beryllium believed, and we sent my workfellow Antonio astir the CES show level successful Las Vegas successful what was initially a fruitless search. No PC shaper seemed to person an interactive crippled demo moving connected a 5090, overmuch little the two-slot card.

But connected Wednesday, we yet spotted the existent woody astatine Nvidia’s offsite arena — and past some. It’s heavy, and the uniquely desirable $2,000 paper whitethorn upwind up being rare, but it’s here, and it works.

Below, find our pictures of the comparatively compact 5090; its incredibly compact PCB pinch the Blackwell spot connected top; a crippled demo moving connected the 5090; a image of the 5090, 5080, and 5070 Founder’s Editions broadside by side; and immoderate examples of conscionable really bulky each different partner’s cards tin beryllium compared to Nvidia’s own.