CES 2025: Leo reacts to Nvidia RTX 50 keynote

Leo was in attendance at Las Vegas for Nvidia's CES keynote. Now that there has been some time for the announcements to settle in, Leo shares his thoughts on the latest announcements, including the RTX 50 series graphics cards. 

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GeForce Blackwell GPUs bring two new feature upgrades to Nvidia's suite of technologies – DLSS 4 and Reflex 2. DLSS 4 allows for Multi-Frame Generation to create an extra three frames for every rendered frame, supercharging performance even further compared to DLSS 3. These GPUs also support Nvidia Reflex 2, which introduces Frame Warp, a new technique to reduce latency by updating a rendered frame based on the latest mouse input. According to Nvidia, Reflex 2 can reduce latency by as much as 75 percent.

The table below shows the specs of each new RTX 50 GPU, next to the RTX 4090 for comparison purposes:

	RTX 5090	RTX 5080	RTX 5070 Ti	RTX 5070	RTX 4090
NVIDIA Architecture	Blackwell	Blackwell	Blackwell	Blackwell	Ada Lovelace
DLSS	DLSS 4	DLSS 4	DLSS 4	DLSS 4	DLSS 3
AI TOPS	3352	1801	1406	988	1321
Tensor Cores	5th Gen	5th Gen	5th Gen	5th Gen	4th Gen
Ray Tracing Cores	4th Gen	4th Gen	4th Gen	4th Gen	3rd Gen
NVIDIA Encoder (NVENC)	3x 9th Gen	2x 9th Gen	2x 9th Gen	1x 9th Gen	2x 8th Gen
NVIDIA Decoder (NVDEC)	2x 6th Gen	2x 6th Gen	1x 6th Gen	1x 6th Gen	1x 5th Gen
Memory Configuration	32 GB GDDR7	16 GB GDDR7	16 GB GDDR7	12 GB GDDR7	24 GB GDDR6X
Memory Bandwidth	1792 GB/sec	960 GB/sec	896 GB/sec	672 GB/sec	1008 GB/sec

The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards will be available starting on the 30th of January, with prices starting at $1999.99 and $999 respectively. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will land in February, priced at $749 and $549.

KitGuru Says: What did you all think of Nvidia's RTX 50 launch? Are you planning on picking up a new-gen GPU this year? 

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