Leaked reports suggest that GPU prices, including the NVIDIA RTX 5090 potentially reaching $5,000, will rise significantly in 2026 due to increased demand for AI-capable GPUs and rising memory costs, impacting the gaming and hardware markets.
The Outer Worlds 2, powered by Unreal Engine 5, supports NVIDIA DLSS 4 and Ray Tracing on PC. Benchmarks on an NVIDIA RTX 5090 reveal that Ray Tracing improves visuals but causes significant performance drops and noisy shadows, making it less recommended. DLSS 4, especially with Frame Gen, helps achieve playable frame rates at 4K, with the best performance using DLSS 4 Performance Mode. Overall, DLSS 4 offers good visual quality and performance, while Ray Tracing's drawbacks suggest disabling it for smoother gameplay.
The game Keeper, built on Unreal Engine 5, runs at 60FPS in native 4K only on medium settings with the NVIDIA RTX 5090, due to demanding Lumen technology. Using DLSS 4 improves performance significantly, but the game's high GPU requirements and lack of fallback options make it less accessible, raising concerns about the efficiency of UE5's tech for mainstream gaming.
The article reviews the performance of Cronos: The New Dawn on high-end PC hardware, highlighting the impact of Ray Tracing and DLSS 4 features, with significant FPS improvements using DLSS 4 Frame Generation modes on an NVIDIA RTX 5090, and notes the game's demanding early scene and default use of Hardware Lumen for Ray Tracing.