Results are in from the only site I really trust - no DLSS4 mumbo-jumbo, and still very impressive results for the 5090:
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-founders-edition/34.html
That's a 33% performance increase from the RTX 4090, which already is very fast. And it's 133% faster than my RTX 3090, and that will usually translate to about twice the speed in VR games and apps. Going from GTX 1080 to RTX 3090 was much the same 130% uplift.
There's one caveat though - and I thought the RTX 3090 was bad for a green planet, lol:
That's a massive 600 watts in sustained power consumption - these are not peak consumptions, but average numbers.
TechPowerUp used a 1000 w PSU for the testing.
Maybe the 5080 will be a sweeter spot for many, possibly delivering RTX 4090 performance and much lower power consumption than the 5090. I'm not holding my breath though 🙂
All in all - 5090 is 33% faster than 4090, and 5090 uses 43% more power than the 4090, and the latter is not very impressive.
