After months of speculation and anticipation, Nvidia finally lifted the cover off its latest lineup of consumer graphics cards, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 series, starting with the flagship RTX 5090.

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?

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,