The Nvidia RTX 5090 is easily the best graphics card on the market right now, offering fantastic performance for gaming, creating, and AI workloads that few other cards can compete with. There is one card that can hold its own against Nvidia's latest high-end card, and that's Nvidia's last-gen flagship, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090.

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.

Recent benchmark leaks have provided insights into the performance of NVIDIA's forthcoming RTX 5080 GPU. The RTX 5080 is set to be released alongside the RTX 5090 on January 30 and was identified in Geekbench under OpenCL and Vulkan benchmark tests.

That extra processing power naturally translates to better performance, making the RTX 5090 the new king of 4K gaming. It’s a $1,999 GPU for anyone who wants the best 4K gaming experience, developers interested in AI performance, and creators who want to accelerate video editing.

With an early MSI Suprim Liquid RTX 5090 graphics card in hand, we ran some early benchmark tests and overclocked the most extreme version of the Nvidia flagship.

A leaked 3DMark benchmark suggests that the Nvidia RTX 5080 is 15% faster than the RTX 4080 Super, but 11% slower than the RTX 4090.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is one of the most powerful (and expensive) graphics cards ever, and uses AI to further enhance its gaming performance.