ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 TUF 32GB

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 is one of the first consumer graphics cards in the GeForce RTX 50 Series, which is based on the Blackwell architecture. This top-end model offers a large boost in performance over the previous-generation RTX 4090, and includes 33% more VRAM (32GB vs 24GB), but all of that comes at the cost of a substantial increase in power consumption and heat output. The RTX 5090 is rated for up to 575W, which is 125W higher than its predecessor, and that increase will make multi-GPU configurations much more difficult to achieve.

Alongside the rise in performance and power, the RTX 5090 also includes several major feature upgrades. There are improved video encoding and decoding capabilities, with added support for 4:2:2 chroma subsampling, as well as new generations of CUDA, tensor, and ray tracing cores. The 32GB of VRAM is also made up of new, high-speed GDDR7 memory. For detailed performance info across a wide range of professional applications, check out our RTX 5090 Content Creation Review.

This version of the RTX 5090, from ASUS, uses a triple-fan cooling layout. It works very well for keeping the GPU cool - a few degrees lower than the Founders Edition under load in our testing! However, it is quite large, and that size plus the massive amount of heat it puts off means that just one of these can be installed in most systems... and smaller form factor computers probably can't fit it at all.

Finally, in regards to connectivity, there are one HDMI 2.1a and three DisplayPort 2.1 plugs supporting a total of up to four displays at a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 (8K).