Nvidia is giving away a custom Hogwarts Legacy-themed GeForce RTX 5090 to celebrate the game’s new DLSS 5 update, and the competition has become one of its most shared posts of the week. The Japanese GeForce account’s version, posted on 9 November, had passed 1.4 million views and more than 16,000 replies by Tuesday. Entering looks simple, since people are asked to follow the account, share the post and reply with #RTXON. The catch for many of our readers sits in the official rules, which leave India off the list of eligible countries.
The sweepstakes is run by Nvidia’s US parent company and covers its official GeForce accounts on X, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, with one entry allowed per person across all of them. According to the official rules, it opened at 6am Pacific Time on 5 November and closes at 11:59pm PT on 12 November. That deadline works out to 1:29pm IST on 13 November. Only one card is up for grabs, and Nvidia plans to pick the winner in a random draw on or about 13 November.
Who can enter Nvidia’s Hogwarts Legacy RTX 5090 giveaway
The rules limit entry to legal residents aged 18 or over in 18 countries and regions. They are Australia, Austria, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Some areas are carved out, including Quebec, Puerto Rico and other US territories, and four Australian states and territories. India is not on the list, and neither is any other South Asian country, so entries from Indian residents will not count even though the post is open to everyone on X.
The prize is an RTX 5090 Founders Edition with a custom Hogwarts Legacy wrap, which Nvidia values at $2,599 in total. That figure breaks down as $1,999 for the card and $600 for the wrap. The prize cannot be exchanged for cash, and the winner is responsible for any taxes. Nvidia says it will contact the winner by private message within five business days of the draw, after which the winner has five days to reply or lose the prize.
What DLSS 5 changes in Hogwarts Legacy
The giveaway marks the arrival of DLSS 5 in Hogwarts Legacy, through an update released on 5 November. According to Nvidia’s announcement, DLSS 5 adds what the company calls 3D-Guided Neural Rendering, a final stage in the graphics pipeline that uses AI to add lighting and material detail. It builds on the game’s own geometry, textures and lighting data, and players switch it on with a single “Neural Rendering” option in the settings. Nvidia built the update together with Avalanche Software, the studio that developed Hogwarts Legacy.
The new feature is limited to Nvidia’s newest hardware. Nvidia says DLSS 5 works on all GeForce RTX 50 Series desktop and laptop GPUs, on RTX Spark PCs and on the Ultimate tier of GeForce NOW, so RTX 40 Series owners miss out. Our guide to GeForce NOW’s plans in India explains which tiers are offered locally. Nvidia also claims up to 300 frames per second at 4K on an RTX 5090, with maximum settings, ray tracing and 6X Multi Frame Generation, a figure that has not been independently tested.
More DLSS 5 games are on the way this month. War Thunder is due to add DLSS 5 with its Eagle’s Shadow update in mid-November, and Where Winds Meet follows on 23 November. The update comes a few months after DLSS 4.5, covered in our guide to DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction. It also lands in an uncomfortable week for Nvidia, as chief executive Jensen Huang faces questions over the affair at the centre of our Megaspeed explainer.
How to spot fake winner messages in the RTX 5090 giveaway
Large social media giveaways regularly attract impersonators, who reply to entrants claiming they have won and then ask for a delivery fee, bank details or a click on a link. Nvidia’s rules state that “no purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to enter or win this promotion”, so any message asking for money is not from Nvidia. The company will also list the result on its official contest winners page. Entries close at 11:59pm PT on 12 November, and the draw is due on or about the following day.
