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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Linux Benchmarks: Stay Tuned

Following the unboxing embargo earlier this week for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, today the review embargo lifts for the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition.

While having the GeForce RTX 5090 FE review sample in advance thanks to NVIDIA, it turns out the Linux packaged driver isn't quite ready yet. Besides introducing GeForce RTX 50 series support, it will be interesting to see what other new features and improvements might be found in this next NVIDIA Linux driver release. That at least is one benefit of the open-source driver stacks from AMD and Intel is not having to worry about any "preview" driver builds but rather simply relying on the very latest upstream open-source code within the Linux kernel and Mesa -- sans of course the exceptions when firmware blobs aren't yet published or other caveats of years passed when the support hasn't been quite baked for launch-day.

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