Get up close to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 FE, an incredibly compact flagship video card.

We may be skeptical of some of Nvidia’s claims, such as whether the $549 RTX 5070 will actually deliver the performance of the $1599 RTX 4090. But it’s almost impossible not to be impressed by Nvidia’s RTX 5090 Founder’s Edition, which packs 575 watts of graphics power. Includes 21,760 CUDA cores and 32GB of GDDR7 memory for video. Only two card slots wide.

You have to see it to believe it, so we sent our colleague Antonio to the CES showroom in Las Vegas, but at first it didn’t work out. It appears that no PC manufacturer is offering interactive game demos running on the 5090, let alone a two-slot card.

But on Wednesday we finally found the real deal at Nvidia’s offsite event. A hefty, uniquely desirable $2,000 card may be rare, but it’s here and it works.

Find photos of the relatively compact 5090 below. Incredibly compact PCB with Blackwell chip on top; Game demo running on 5090; There’s a side-by-side photo of the 5090, 5080, and 5070 Founder’s Edition, and some examples comparing how big all the other partners’ cards are compared to Nvidia’s.