The wait is over: Nvidia’s next-gen RTX 50-Series GPUs are here

Blackwell has arrived. in CES On Monday night, Nvidia unveiled its long-awaited next generation of GeForce RTX graphics cards based on the latest Blackwell microarchitecture, and the race will soon begin for AI groups training large language models and PC gamers alike to pick up these new cards as soon as possible. maybe. They were released.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage in Las Vegas and announced four new GeForce RTX desktop GPUs: the flagship RTX 5090, along with the RTX 5080, 5070 Ti, and 5070.

The GeForce RTX 5090 is twice as fast as the previous RTX 4090, according to Huang, thanks to the new Blackwell Architecture and DLSS4. It includes 92 billion transistors capable of more than 3,352 trillion artificial intelligence operations per second. DLSS 4 offers multi-frame creation that optimizes frame rates using AI to create up to three frames for each displayed frame. DLSS 4 will be supported in more than 75 games and apps on launch day.

The launch day is coming soon. The RTX 5090 and 5080 will start shipping on January 30, with the 5070 Ti and 5070 following sometime in February. Here’s the pricing:

• RTX 5090: $1,999
• RTX 5080: $999
• RTX 5070 Ti: $749
• RTX 5070: $549

In addition to Nvidia’s Founders Edition cards, versions using GPUs will be available from Nvidia’s usual partners, including Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, PNY, and Zotac.

The RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti and 5070 mobile edition laptops are scheduled to begin shipping in March.

In this age of AI, Huang focused on the AI ​​TOPS numbers of the new GPUs rather than the CUDA cores. Here are the AI ​​TOPS numbers for the four new desktop GPUs:

• RTX 5090: 3,352 points
• RTX 5080: 1,801 points
• RTX 5070 Ti: 1,406 points
• RTX 5070: 988 pcs

And artificial intelligence is present in new graphics cards. In addition to DLSS 4, Nvidia’s new RTX Neural Shaders use AI to compress textures to increase memory efficiency, and RTX Neural Faces use AI to improve the quality of character faces in games.