The TSMC N4P manufacturing process allows for 92.2 billion transistors on a 750 mm² die. To draw everything on your screen, the GPU uses 21,760 CUDA Cores, 680 Texture Mapping Units, and 176 Render Output Units. It also has 170 Ray Tracing Cores for realistic lighting and reflections, plus 680 Tensor Cores to accelerate AI features.

To handle high-resolution textures, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 comes with 32 GB of GDDR7. Its 512-bit bus delivers 1,792 GB/s of memory bandwidth, ensuring the GPU stays fed at high settings. The Founders Edition boost clock is up to 2,407 MHz.

Blackwell upgrades the graphics pipeline with fourth-gen RT Cores (Mega Geometry), fifth-gen Tensor Cores with DLSS 4 Multi-Frame Generation, Raytracing (RT) Cores, and an AI (Tensor) Processor to coordinate on-GPU AI workloads. For creators, ninth-gen NVENC adds AV1 quality and speed gains and supports up to three encoders and two decoders.

Before you buy, check your case specs. The Founders Edition is 304 mm long and uses a 2-slot design. Display outputs are 3× DisplayPort 2.1b and 1× HDMI 2.1b, with support up to 4K 480 Hz or 8K 165 Hz via DSC (monitor-dependent). Power is via one 16-pin PCIe Gen5 cable (adapter included). The card’s total graphics power is 575 W and a 1000 W PSU is recommended.