Nvidia launch their RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 at CES 2025
Nvidia transforms the GPU market with their RTX 50 series of graphics cards
If you are a PC gamer, Nvidia’s RTX 50 series launch will likely be your highlight of CES 2025. Today, Nvidia has revealed four new desktop graphics cards: the RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070.
With these GPUs, Nvidia has utilised its new Blackwell GPU architecture. This new architecture includes new hardware features, tighter integration for tensor cores, and enhancements to innovations like Shader Execution Reordering. Blackwell’s new Tensor cores now support FP4. Furthermore, Nvidia’s new RT cores enable two times as many ray triangle intersections as before. Additionally, Blackwell now supports DisplayPort 2.1b with full bandwidth, enabling support for 8K 165Hz displays.
DLSS Transformed
With Nvidia’s RTX 50 series and Blackwell GPU architecture, Nvidia has launched a new version of DLSS. DLSS 4 has arrived, and it replaces Nvidia’s Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with a new transformer model. This enables increased quality for all versions of DLSS, be it DLAA, Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction, or Frame Generation.
Exclusive to the RTX 50 series is support for DLSS 4 Multi-Frame Generation. This allows three AI-generated frames to be created for every real frame. This enables a huge boost in gaming framerates, making ultra-high refresh rate gaming displays more useful.
Below, we can see the impact of DLSS 4 and how it transforms the performance of Nvidia’s high-end GPU lineup. With DLSS 4 enabled, Nvidia’s RTX 5090 is two times faster than Nvidia’s RTX 4090. This is with full RT enabled in Cyberpunk 2077.
RTX 5090 Performance and Pricing
With their new RTX 5090, Nvidia has promised up to a 2x performance boost over their RTX 4090. However, this is only in games where DLSS 4 and full ray tracing are implemented. For other games, performance gains are smaller.
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 features 32GB of GDDR7 memory, 1792 GBps of total memory bandwidth, and 21,760 CUDA cores. This GPU also has 680 5th generation Tensor Cores and 170 4th generation RT cores.
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 will be available on January 30th, and the pricing will start at $1,999.
RTX 5080 Performance and Pricing
Like the RTX 5090, Nvidia promises up to a 2x performance gain with its RTX 5080 over its predecessor, the RTX 4080. Again, this is in selected titles with full RT and DLSS 4.
Nvidia’s RTX 5080 has 16GB of GDDR7 memory and offers users 34% more bandwidth than an RTX 4080.
RTX 5080 Pricing
Nvidia’s RTX 5080 will be available starting on January 30th, with pricing starting at $999.
RTX 5070 Ti Performance and Pricing
Again, Nvidia promises a 2x performance boost with their RTX 5070 Ti over its immediate predecessor. Again, this is in selected titles with full ray tracing and DLSS 4. It will also have 16GB of GDDR7 memory, like the RTX 5080.
Nvidia’s RTX 5070 Ti will have an MSRP of $749.
RTX 5070 Performance and Pricing
Finally, we have Nvidia’s RTX 5070, which Nvidia claims once again is 2x faster than its predecessor. Do I need to say it this time? Yes, this is only in selected titles with DLSS 4 and full ray tracing enabled. This GPU will have 12GB of GDDR7 memory and a total bandwidth of 672 GBps.
Nvidia’s RTX 5070 will have an MSRP of $549
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