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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review & Benchmarks: Gaming, Thermals, & Power

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Sponsor: Thermal Grizzly Aeronaut on Amazon https://geni.us/e8Oq & Hydronaut (Amazon) https://geni.us/hOQrBAb The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs launch next week, but reviews can go up today. This benchmark and review of the RTX 5090 Founders Edition video card evaluates the gaming performance vs. the RTX 4090, RX 7900 XTX, RTX 3090 Ti & 3090, RTX 2080 Ti, and more. AMD has an RX 9070 and 9070 XT coming up, which will likely aim to compete in some capacity with NVIDIA's Blackwell RTX 5070 and/or 5070 Ti. For launch though, NVIDIA will ship the RTX 5080 and 5090 on the same day. These benchmarks look at rasterized gaming performance, ray tracing, power consumption and efficiency, thermal testing, acoustics, and Schlieren imaging of the 5090 Founders Edition cooler. We have a ton more content coming up on this card, so check back regularly over the next few days and subscribe! Watch our thermal engineering interview with Malcolm Gutenburg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p0MEy8BvYY Find GN's test bench details here: https://gamersnexus.net/features/living-doc-current-test-bench-hardware-list-methodologies 12VHPWR is a Dumpster Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y36LMS5y34A The best way to support our work is through our store: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: http://www.patreon.com/gamersnexus RELATED PRODUCTS [Affiliate Links] NVIDIA RTX 5090 on Newegg: https://howl.link/mcb343fapkti6 NVIDIA RTX 5090 on Amazon: https://geni.us/CGgM6y AMD RX 7900 XTX on Newegg: https://howl.link/mtvba9dgdf7x4 AMD RX 7900 XTX on Amazon: https://geni.us/IOsQ AMD Ryzen 9800X3D CPU on Newegg: https://howl.link/o17puhoclww0v AMD Ryzen 9800X3D CPU on Amazon: https://geni.us/bsS1kFv Intel Arc B570 on Newegg: https://howl.link/cxr7t1sncf18n TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU Review and Benchmarks 01:46 - A Lot of Testing Plans 02:46 - Founders Edition Design 04:10 - RTX 5090 Price, Alternatives 06:05 - Testing Methodology and Bench 06:43 - Founders Edition Thermal Benchmarks RTX 5090 08:16 - Acoustic Testing, Noise Levels, Sample 09:42 - Schlieren Imaging and Airflow 12:18 - IT WORKS - Schlieren 13:36 - Frequency Validation 14:28 - Gaming Benchmarks: FFXIV 4K 16:13 - FFXIV 1440p GPU Benchmarks (RTX 5090 vs 4090) 16:43 - FFXIV 1080p GPU Comparison 17:35 - Black Myth Wukong 4K Test 18:53 - Black Myth Wukong 1440p Benchmarks 19:23 - Black Myth Wukong 1080p Graphics Card Comparison 20:11 - Starfield 4K RTX 5090 vs RX 7900 XTX, RTX 3090 Ti 20:56 - Starfield 1440p RTX 5090 vs 2080 Ti, 3090 21:19 - Starfield 1080p 21:36 - Dragon's Dogma 2 4K Benchmarks 22:30 - Dragon's Dogma 2 1440p Benchmarks 22:50 - Dragon's Dogma 2 1080p Benchmarks 23:10 - Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty 4K Ultra Benchmarks 24:11 - Cyberpunk 1440p RTX 5090 Benchmark 24:48 - Dying Light 2 4K Benchmarks 25:41 - Dying Light 2 1440p 26:00 - Resident Evil 4 4K Benchmarks 26:29 - Resident Evil 4 1440p 26:59 - Resident Evil 4 1080p 27:22 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth 4K Upscaling 28:19 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth 1080p Benchmarks 28:54 - Ray Tracing: Dragon's Dogma 2 4K 29:23 - Ray Tracing: Dragon's Dogma 2 1440p, 1080p 30:00 - Ray Tracing: Dying Light 2 4K Upscaling 30:37 - Ray Tracing: Dying Light 2 1440p 30:58 - Ray Tracing: Dying Light 2 1080p 31:24 - Ray Tracing: Resident Evil 4 4K, 1440p 31:50 - Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 4K Ultra, Medium 32:30 - POWER: Idle 33:45 - POWER: FFXIV 4K Efficiency 34:35 - POWER: FFXIV 1440p Efficiency 35:01 - POWER: F1 24 RT 4K RTX 5090 Efficiency 35:38 - Conclusion, Marketing BS ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: http://www.twitter.com/gamersnexus f: http://www.facebook.com/gamersnexus w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/ Our policies, processes, and ethics statements relating to review samples, advertising, travel, errors, and more are transparently and publicly available on this page: https://gamers.nexus/ethics-statements Steve Burke: Writing, Test Lead Patrick Lathan: Testing Mike Gaglione: Testing, Editing Jeremy Clayton: QC, Testing Tim Phetdara: Camera

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