A first look at Nvidia’s flagship RTX 5090 compared to the RTX 4090

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 vs. RTX 4090. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card is arriving later this month, and we’ve managed to unbox one and compare its design to the RTX 4090. Just like our first look at the RTX 5090, this isn’t a review. Performance figures, benchmarks, and impressions beyond the hardware are coming later.
The first thing that’s notable about the RTX 5090 is the packaging design has totally changed si