CES 2025: Nvidia launches RTX 50 GPUs powered by ‘Blackwell’ architecture

After months of leaks and rumours, Nvidia has officially announced the GeForce RTX 50 series of graphics cards. Based on the Blackwell architecture, with new generation Tensor and RT cores, and of course, DLSS 4. 

While rumours anticipated that the RTX 5080 would launch first, Nvidia is actually revealing four SKUs today – the RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti and the RTX 5070. Compared to the RTX 4090, the RTX 5090 offers more than twice the amount of AI TOPS performance, and all of the cards below also see a significant boost in AI capability. This enables features like DLSS 4, which bumps the Frame Generation aspect to ‘Multi Frame Generation', allowing for even higher frame rates, even when using fully ray-traced graphics.

You can see the full specs in the table below:

	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. Board partners like Asus, Colorful, Gainward, Galax, Gigabyte, INNO3D, KFA2, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac will have custom-cooled versions available at varying price points.

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