Today ends the information embargo on tests of Nvidia’s top-tier GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card. It delivers extreme performance but at the cost of unprecedented power consumption and the highest price yet. Even so, it is expected to attract immense interest from gamers and professionals for its 32 GB of memory and exceptional performance.
Operating characteristics in F1 24
I measured the operating characteristics in the F1 24 benchmark at a resolution of 3840 × 2160 pixels with Ultra settings and DLAA anti-aliasing. With these settings, the graphics chip is fully loaded. This is a benchmark with five laps on the Singapore map in wet conditions.
The frame rate hovers just above 100 frames per second.
The card’s clock speed holds steady just above the boost value, starting slightly above 2500 MHz and oscillating between 2450 and 2500 MHz after warming up.
With these settings, the card usually runs at the 575 W limit.
The speed of both fans is the same and stays around 1750 rpm after warming up, at which the measured noise level reaches around 44 dBA. That’s a bit higher than the average for cheaper cards on the higher performance side and similar to the RTX 4090, but we’ll have a more accurate comparison with the same build after measuring a few more cards.
To add at least a little bit from the CPU to the graphics card data, it doesn’t really suffer from the fact that the graphics card is running properly hot in the case. It also held steady at 5.2 GHz.
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