MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z Review - Up to 1000 W

Name: MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z
Brand: MSI
Price: 5090 USD

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on Feb 12th, 2026,

in Graphics Cards.

Manufacturer: MSI / Product Page

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DLSS 4

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Upscaling & Frame Generation Cyberpunk 2077 RT
Card	Upscaling	Framegen	FPS	Latency	VRAM
RTX 5080	Native	Off	35 FPS	55 ms	13565 MB
RTX 5080	Transformer/DLAA	Off	34 FPS	56 ms	14478 MB
RTX 5080	Transformer/Quality	Off	62 FPS	36 ms	12233 MB
RTX 5080	Transformer/Balanced	Off	74 FPS	32 ms	11917 MB
RTX 5080	Transformer/Performance	Off	86 FPS	29 ms	11832 MB
RTX 5080	Transformer/Ultra Performance	Off	135 FPS	23 ms	11262 MB
RTX 5080	CNN/DLAA	Off	35 FPS	54 ms	15050 MB
RTX 5080	CNN/Quality	Off	66 FPS	34 ms	12832 MB
RTX 5080	CNN/Balanced	Off	78 FPS	29 ms	12544 MB
RTX 5080	CNN/Performance	Off	93 FPS	29 ms	12387 MB
RTX 5080	CNN/Ultra Performance	Off	135 FPS	23 ms	11957 MB
RTX 5080	Native	x2	64 FPS	71 ms	14606 MB
RTX 5080	Native	x3	91 FPS	74 ms	14885 MB
RTX 5080	Native	x4	120 FPS	74 ms	15147 MB
RTX 5080	Native	AMD FSR	61 FPS	N/A	14703 MB
RTX 5090	Native	Off	54 FPS	38 ms	13916 MB
RTX 5090	Transformer/DLAA	Off	54 FPS	38 ms	14891 MB
RTX 5090	Transformer/Quality	Off	92 FPS	29 ms	12434 MB
RTX 5090	Transformer/Balanced	Off	106 FPS	28 ms	12167 MB
RTX 5090	Transformer/Performance	Off	124 FPS	26 ms	12130 MB
RTX 5090	Transformer/Ultra Performance	Off	129 FPS	22 ms	11588 MB
RTX 5090	CNN/DLAA	Off	57 FPS	40 ms	15994 MB
RTX 5090	CNN/Quality	Off	96 FPS	27 ms	13699 MB
RTX 5090	CNN/Balanced	Off	113 FPS	27 ms	13367 MB
RTX 5090	CNN/Performance	Off	128 FPS	25 ms	13307 MB
RTX 5090	CNN/Ultra Performance	Off	126 FPS	23 ms	12842 MB
RTX 5090	Native	x2	105 FPS	45 ms	14734 MB
RTX 5090	Native	x3	151 FPS	51 ms	14896 MB
RTX 5090	Native	x4	196 FPS	48 ms	15164 MB
RTX 5090	Native	AMD FSR	99 FPS	N/A	15046 MB
RTX 4090	Native	Off	43 FPS	59 ms	14714 MB
RTX 4090	CNN/DLAA	Off	42 FPS	50 ms	14813 MB
RTX 4090	CNN/Quality	Off	78 FPS	30 ms	12560 MB
RTX 4090	CNN/Balanced	Off	93 FPS	28 ms	12267 MB
RTX 4090	CNN/Performance	Off	114 FPS	25 ms	12206 MB
RTX 4090	CNN/Ultra Performance	Off	155 FPS	20 ms	11687 MB
RTX 4090	Transformer/DLAA	Off	40 FPS	47 ms	14054 MB
RTX 4090	Transformer/Quality	Off	67 FPS	33 ms	11908 MB
RTX 4090	Transformer/Balanced	Off	80 FPS	30 ms	11643 MB
RTX 4090	Transformer/Performance	Off	97 FPS	26 ms	11570 MB
RTX 4090	Transformer/Ultra Performance	Off	153 FPS	20 ms	10967 MB
RTX 4090	Native	DLSS	74 FPS	57 ms	13714 MB
RX 7900 XTX	Native	Off	21 FPS	N/A	12635 MB
RX 7900 XTX	FSR 3/Performance	Off	59 FPS	N/A	9250 MB
RX 7900 XTX	Native	FSR 3	39 FPS	N/A	13360 MB