Nvidia RTX 5090 Review: Ray Tracing, DLSS 4, and Raw Power

Alan Wake 2 is a 2023 survival horror game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Epic Games Publishing. A sequel to Alan Wake, the story follows best-selling novelist Alan Wake, who has been trapped in an alternate dimension for 13 years, as he attempts to escape by writing a horror story involving an FBI special agent named Saga Anderson. The game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 27 October 2023. (Wikipedia)

Engine: Northlight. We test using the High preset, High Ray Tracing preset, FSR set to Quality upscaling, DXR API.

Moving onto ray tracing performance, there's a clear gulf in class when looking at Alan Wake 2 – only a handful of GPUs can deliver actually playable performance in this game with RT enabled. Of course the 5090 is top of the pile and it comes in 28% faster than the 4090, though the 1% lows are in need of fixing as we mentioned earlier in the review.

Up at 4K, the 5090 manages 55fps and that makes it 30% faster than the 4090, while it's 83% ahead of the 4080 Super.

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