The RTX 5080 is, on paper, a weaker card than the RTX 4090, with around 50% fewer CUDA cores, fewer RT and Tensor cores (albeit from a later generation), 50% less memory, and a narrower memory bus.

Nvidia RTX 4090 vs RTX 3090 (and Ti): Price and availability. The GeForce RTX 4090’s $1,599 MSRP is significantly less than the $1,999 whopper of a price that the RTX 3090 Ti launched with.

The RTX 4090 is a rare sight indeed—it's a GPU that offers a massive generational leap, and it stands far, far above the rest of the lineup. The RTX 4080 Super is not without its perks, though.

With RTX 4090 cards in short supply, even the most hardcore gamers have a reason to wait for the market to shake up. And, as we'll discuss further down, you don't really need a 4090 to get great ...

That might make the RTX 4090 sound like overkill, and it kind of is, but there are so many high refresh rate 4K monitors coming out that will really take advantage of the power on offer here, and ...

The lowest spec new RTX Blackwell GPU is capable of frame rates akin to the $1,599 RTX 4090 of the previous generation, though likely only through new DLSS 4 AI smarts.

The RTX 4090 certainly isn't a slough compared to the rest of the graphics card market, but the RTX 5090 is simply out ahead on its own, performance-wise. Winner: Nvidia RTX 5090; ...