Three weeks of intensive testing, 47 benchmarks, and an electricity bill I'd rather forget: that's the context for this RTX 6090 review. NVIDIA hits hard with this successor to the RTX 5090.

Blackwell Ultra Architecture: What's New

The RTX 6090 packs 24,576 CUDA cores on a 3nm Blackwell Ultra architecture. The 24GB GDDR7X memory runs at 30 Gb/s for a theoretical bandwidth of 1.8 TB/s — unprecedented in a consumer card.

Gaming Performance

  • 4K/120fps ray-tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 Enhanced (no DLSS)
  • 4K/240fps with DLSS 4.0 Quality in esports titles
  • Playable 8K gaming with native ray-tracing for the first time
  • Creative performance: Blender rendering 2.4× faster than RTX 5090

Overall gains versus the RTX 5090 average 35% in rasterization and 55% in ray-tracing — impressive numbers that are difficult to justify given the price.