Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series

AI and Multi Frame Generation are the stars of this release rather than the silicon, but these alone give reasons to buy

DAVE JAMES, JOHN LOEFFLER

Looking for a particular past review? Visit our index at pcpro.link/index RTX 5080 SCORE PRICE Founders Edition, £816 (£979 inc VAT) from nvidia.com RTX 5090 SCORE PRICE Founders Edition, £1,616 (£1,939 inc VAT) from nvidia.com With a trio of major architectural changes, you can see why Nvidia kept us waiting almost two years for an update to its RTX 40-series. First up is its move to a 4nm process from 5nm, while it has also made the jump from PCIe 4 to PCIe 5 (see “Why PCI Express rules the world”, p40). But the biggest hardware change the new Blackwell architecture brings is GDDR7 video memory – and it’s far faster than GDDR6 and GDDR6X. For example, the RTX 5090 has a roughly 33% increase in Gbits/sec over the RTX…

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