Nvidia's dominance over the latest generation of graphics cards ends today. AMD might have surrendered the high end of the GPU market, but its new $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 RX 9070 XT look set to bring Nvidia back to reality, at least in the midrange.

After a disappointing $549 RTX 5070, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti that's near impossible to buy for anything less than $899, and a $1,999 RTX 5090 whose only competition is other Nvidia cards, AMD's next-gen GPUs look perfectly timed and deliver on performance and price.

The RX 9070 is around 17 percent faster than Nvidia's RTX 5070 in 4K without upscaling enabled, cruising past Nvidia's card for …

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The RTX 50-series launch hasn't gone smoothly so far. Severely limited stock, high prices, and manufacturing issues have left PC gamers frustrated. Now, Nvidia is trying to get things heading in the right direction with the RTX 5070, a GPU that it promised would deliver $1,599 RTX 4090-like performance for $549.

It doesn't, and it was never going to. It's about 20 percent faster than the RTX 4070 and a bare 4 percent faster than last year's RTX 4070 Super. It's a solid card for 1440p gaming, just like the RTX 4070, but as with the rest of the 50-series cards, Nvidia's performance claims rely on Frame Generation rather than meaningful improv …

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Nvidia's new RTX 5070 Ti graphics card is the most intriguing entry in the 50-series lineup so far, promising to outperform last-gen cards that were even more expensive. At $749, it comfortably beats AMD's $899 RX 7900 XT, trades blows with the $999 RX 7900 XTX, and is closer than I was expecting to Nvidia's own $999 RTX 5080. It's a capable card for a relatively good price, and that makes the RTX 5070 Ti an ideal choice if you're tempted to move to 4K gaming or want a card that can deliver high frame rates for 1440p.

But like the rest of the 50-series cards, the RTX 5070 Ti is not as much of an upgrade as we've come to expect from Nvidia. …

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Nvidia's new RTX 5080 graphics card isn't as exciting as I was hoping it would be. While the sleek new Founders Edition redesign dramatically shrinks the size of the card compared to the RTX 4080 and RTX 4080 Super, you're getting the same 16GB of VRAM and only small performance improvements over the previous generation of cards.

The RTX 5080, which arrives January 30th for $999, is about 15 percent faster than the RTX 4080 at 4K without the use of any AI-powered upscaling tricks. While the RTX 4080 managed to beat the RTX 3090, and the RTX 3080 dethroned the RTX 2080 Ti, the RTX 5080 isn't enough to topple the RTX 4090. Nvidia has built up …

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Nvidia's RTX 4090 was a beast of a graphics card. It was a huge GPU that delivered true 4K gaming for those who really wanted it and a huge jump in performance over the previous-generation RTX 3090. Naturally, the company's latest top-of-the-line GPU, the GeForce RTX 5090, now has a lot of expectations riding on it when it arrives on January 30th.

But at $1,999, the RTX 5090 is steep - $400 more than the RTX 4090 Founders Edition at its launch. (It could run you even more in the form of a new power supply or higher electricity bills, especially if you want to run games like Cyberpunk 2077 in 4K.)

For those extra dollars, you're getting har …

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I had high hopes for the RTX 4070 Ti Super after the RTX 4070 Super impressed me earlier this month. Nvidia's first RTX 40-series Super card provided some solid performance boosts at both 4K and 1440p - around 15 percent and 17 percent, respectively. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about the RTX 4070 Ti Super.

While the pricing remains the same $799 as the original RTX 4070 Ti it's replacing, so does the performance. At 1440p on the RTX 4070 Ti Super, I initially found nearly 3 percent better performance over the original RTX 4070 Ti and around 5 percent at 4K. Nvidia had promised 10 percent, so something had clearly gone wrong here.

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When I reviewed the RTX 4070 last year, there were a few things that held it back. The original card shipped with 12GB of VRAM, its 4K performance didn't quite match the RTX 3080, and overall, it didn't feel like a big generational leap. The RTX 4070 Super corrects most of those issues at the same $599 price point.

While Nvidia has stuck to the same 192-bit memory bus and 12GB of G6X memory with the RTX 4070 Super, the big bump to CUDA cores puts its performance a lot closer to the RTX 4070 Ti. The RTX 4070 Super feels like a generational leap, delivering even better 1440p and 4K performance than before.

I wasn't expecting quite the bump i …

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