Nvidia unveiled its long-awaited GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 Ti at its CES 2025 keynote this week.

The GeForce RTX 5090 just hit PC Labs for some early benchmarking. How does it stack up against the reigning king of graphics cards? So far, it's a beast.

If you're sticking with the RTX 40 series for now, there's some good news: you're not being left out.

Accomplished with the product design concept "Evolution of Ten", GIGABYTE's GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards improve thermal performance by up to 10% and reduce overall card volume by up to 10% for a more compatible PC-building experience.

And here's also why we're not getting the same sort of big frame rate bump we got out of the RTX 40-series: hardware is hard.