One reason why Nvidia has maintained such a dominant lead for so long is that it continually pushes the envelope with new features. Popular games and game engines implement those features, which may only work on Nvidia's hardware,

CEO Jensen Huang takes the stage tonight in Las Vegas, where he's expected to debut the RTX 5000 series. But will the next-generation graphics cards break the bank?

As for specs, the RTX 5090 Founders Edition will feature 32GB of GDDR7 RAM and 21,760 CUDA cores. Depending on the game, NVIDIA says the 5090 will deliver as much as twice the relative performance, with RT-intensive titles like Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 seeing the largest gains.