I Put Nvidia’s RTX 50-Series Laptop GPU to the Test. Here’s What I Found

Two months after the anticipated desktop RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, the next phase of Nvidia's next-gen graphics card lineup is finally here. I tried out the RTX 5090 mobile onboard the new Razer Blade 16, and while I'll have broader thoughts on the machine soon in a review, I first want to focus on how the RTX 5090 itself feels on a gaming laptop. Nvidia's RTX 50 series has some interesting advances over the preceding RTX 40 series. The open approach to multi-frame generation, which uses artificial intelligence to generate additional frames to offer higher frame rates when gaming, has been fun to tweak. The extra VRAM in these cards is important in delivering smoother graphics too. But the increase in raw graphics performance is disappointingly small, and for a flagship GPU launching an entirely new architecture at the peak of Nvidia's power, it left me wishing there was more on offer. Photograph: Luke Larsen The Laptop Matters Nvidia did provide some caveats when handing over a Razer ... Read full article.