Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 unboxing: Up close and personal with the new gaming GPU

While we eagerly anticipate the final release of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 at the end of January, we thought we’d give you a taster of what to expect in terms of physical hardware, as we have a card in the labs right now. The new graphics card comes in a much smaller box than all the RTX 4000 cards, and inside it you’ll find a svelte and slimline card as well.

We can’t definitively tell you if the RTX 5090 is indeed the best graphics card right now, but we can at least show you the card itself. Nvidia has really gone to town on the physical design, implementing a brand new flow-through cooling system that means the new flagship card only takes up two slots. It’s positively tiny compared to the RTX 4090, as you’ll see in a minute.