Interview: Nvidia explains RTX 5090 Founder’s Edition radical redesign

If you’re a PC gamer, and you have a lot of room in your budget, the biggest news to come out of CES 2025 is almost certainly Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 GPU. That’s figuratively big, not literally, because the Founder’s Edition of this $2,000 beast is shockingly small at just two PCIE card slots. Adam Patrick Murray cornered Nvidia’s Senior Director of Products Justin Walker to talk about it.

Walker says that Nvidia prioritized a smaller volume for the high-end card specifically to help it...