Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs are just around the corner, with the first releases — the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 — dropping on January 30th. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will follow that with their own releases in February, but some are already getting a sneak peek at the software benefits of the GPUs through DLSS 4.

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 is the most brutally fast graphics card ever introduced, augmented by new DLSS 4 technology that feels like magic. But you pay dearly for it.

The most powerful of Nvidia's newest Blackwell graphics cards is a " beast ." Review after review has brought up benchmarks showcasing that when it comes to gaming, the RTX 5090 blows its predecessors and other graphics cards away. However, it appears that for many consumers, the RTX 5090 is overkill.

It’s disappointing to see Nvidia has stuck with 16GB of VRAM on the RTX 5080. AMD’s RX 7900 XTX offers 24GB, and while the RTX 5080 delivers better performance for now, it may well hit video memory limits in 4K gaming in the future.

DLSS 4 is perhaps the biggest improvement in NVIDIA's RTX 5000 series, and it promises big improvements in framerates and overall performance for all of your games. The RTX 5000 series cards are already out,

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 are real, and well, they’re not as spectacular as many gamers hoped at first glance – at least when you aren’t using DLSS 4. I’m worried about what that means for the $550 RTX 5070 PC that gamers seemed so jazzed about,