CEO Jensen Huang revealed the company’s highly anticipated next-generation graphic cards at NVIDIA’s keynote speech at CES 2025. After a short introduction starting from NVIDIA’s humble beginnings, the CEO revealed details on the RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070, the new 50-series family of cards.
The NVIDIA Blackwell architecture features Fifth-Gen Tensor Cores, new streaming multiprocessors optimized for neural shaders, and Fourth-Gen Ray Tracing Cores. The series will support the new DLSS 4 and NVIDIA Reflex 2. According to NVIDIA, DLSS 4 brings the new Multi Frame Generation, Enhanced Ray Reconstruction, and Super Resolution, powered by GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs and fifth-generation Tensor Cores.
The CEO stated that each model will perform twice as fast as their respective predecessor, especially when leveraging the multi-frame generation featured in DLSS 4. In fact, the new series is so powerful that the RTX 5070, priced at $549, is said to offer performances closer, if not comparable, to the RTX 4090.
RTX 50 Series Prices
The RTX 5090 will be priced at $1999 and will go on sale starting on January 30, 2025, followed shortly by the RTX 5080 which will be priced at $999. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070, priced at $749 and $549 respectively, are set to launch in February of this year.
These are the quick specs for each card in the 50 series family.
RTX 5090 Specs
- NVIDIA Architecture: Blackwell
- DLSS: DLSS 4
- AI TOPS: 3352
- Tensor Cores: 5th Gen
- Ray Tracing Cores: 4th Gen
- NVIDIA Encoder (NVENC): 3x 9th Gen
- NVIDIA Decoder (NVDEC): 2X 6th Gen
- Memory Configuration: 32 GB GDDR7
- Memory Bandwidth: 1792 GB/sec
RTX 5080 Specs
- NVIDIA Architecture: Blackwell
- DLSS: DLSS 4
- AI TOPS: 1801
- Tensor Cores: 5th Gen
- Ray Tracing Cores: 4th Gen
- NVIDIA Encoder (NVENC): 2x 9th Gen
- NVIDIA Decoder (NVDEC): 2X 6th Gen
- Memory Configuration: 16 GB GDDR7
- Memory Bandwidth: 960 GB/sec
RTX 5070 Ti Specs
- NVIDIA Architecture: Blackwell
- DLSS: DLSS 4
- AI TOPS: 1406
- Tensor Cores: 5th Gen
- Ray Tracing Cores: 4th Gen
- NVIDIA Encoder (NVENC): 2x 9th Gen
- NVIDIA Decoder (NVDEC): 1X 6th Gen
- Memory Configuration: 16 GB GDDR7
- Memory Bandwidth: 896 GB/sec
RTX 5070 Specs
- NVIDIA Architecture: Blackwell
- DLSS: DLSS 4
- AI TOPS: 988
- Tensor Cores: 5th Gen
- Ray Tracing Cores: 4th Gen
- NVIDIA Encoder (NVENC): 1x 9th Gen
- NVIDIA Decoder (NVDEC): 1X 6th Gen
- Memory Configuration: 12 GB GDDR7
- Memory Bandwidth: 672 GB/sec
On a final note, CEO Jensen Huang also revealed a new lineup of laptops powered by the 50 series. The CEO showed on stage a 50 series card and contrasted it with the laptop. He stated that the only way the 50 series managed to fit inside such a small case was thanks to AI. GeForce RTX 50 Series laptops boast up to 40% better battery life thanks to new Blackwell Max-Q innovations, doubling the performance of previous-generation models. They will be available to the public starting in March of this year.
For more details, visit NVIDIA’s main website. You can watch the full NVIDIA keynote here.
Source: CES 2025
