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Nvidia has announced the RTX 50-series, codename Blackwell, at CES 2025. The new cards come with massive improvements to AI acceleration, with CEO Jensen Huang claiming “AI is coming home to GeForce”.
CEO Huang announced the entire lineup at CES 2025, from the RTX 5090 to the RTX 5070. Let’s get right into prices:
RTX 50-series specs
For comparison, the RTX 4090 has just over 82 FP32 shader TFLOPS from just over 76 billion transistors.
The RTX 50-series cards also feature GDDR7 memory, with a maximum of 1.8 TB/s of memory bandwidth.
Swipe to scroll horizontallyRTX 50-series Blackwell specificationsRow 0 - Cell 0RTX 5090RTX 5080RTX 5070 TiRTX 5070CUDA cores217601075289606144Boost clock (GHz)2.412.622.452.51Base clock (GHz)2.012.32.302.16Tensor core TOPS335218011406988Ray tracing core TFLOPS31817113394Memory32 GB GDDR716 GB GDDR716 GB GDDR712 GB GDDR7Memory bus width512-bit256-bit256-bit192-bitTotal Graphics Power (watts)575360300250Required system power (PSU wattage)1000850750650Power connector1x 600 W PCIe Gen 5 OR 4x PCIe 8-pin adapter1x 450 W PCIe Gen 5 OR 3x PCIe 8-pin adapter1x 300 W PCIe Gen 5 OR 2x PCIe 8-pin adapter1x 300 W PCIe Gen 5 OR 2x PCIe 8-pin adapterPrice$1,999$999$749$549
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RTX 50-series Blackwell specificationsRow 0 - Cell 0RTX 5090RTX 5080RTX 5070 TiRTX 5070CUDA cores217601075289606144Boost clock (GHz)2.412.622.452.51Base clock (GHz)2.012.32.302.16Tensor core TOPS335218011406988Ray tracing core TFLOPS31817113394Memory32 GB GDDR716 GB GDDR716 GB GDDR712 GB GDDR7Memory bus width512-bit256-bit256-bit192-bitTotal Graphics Power (watts)575360300250Required system power (PSU wattage)1000850750650Power connector1x 600 W PCIe Gen 5 OR 4x PCIe 8-pin adapter1x 450 W PCIe Gen 5 OR 3x PCIe 8-pin adapter1x 300 W PCIe Gen 5 OR 2x PCIe 8-pin adapter1x 300 W PCIe Gen 5 OR 2x PCIe 8-pin adapterPrice$1,999$999$749$549
RTX 50-series Founders Edition design
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The Founders Edition card, which history tells us will be the one to buy while it’s available, comes with two fans in a more conventional layout to the past two generations. Though that’s probably underselling the design of these cards somewhat. It’s not your average dual-fan GPU, that’s for sure.
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Altogether, it looks to be a plucky PCB with a ton of cooling, which might be useful considering the RTX 5090 gobbles 575 watts.
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The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 dimensions are 304 mm long, 137 mm wide, and 2 slots. The RTX 5070 is 242 mm long, 112 mm wide, and 2 slots.
There’s no Founders Edition of the 5070 Ti.
RTX 50-series Performance
As for performance comparisons, Nvidia didn’t give us much to go on during the stream, except the promise that the RTX 5090 will offer ‘twice the performance of the 4090’ and the RTX 5070, a $549 card, will compete with the RTX 4090. Though DLSS 4 and new AI features are playing a huge role here, which also means the improvement might be more limited in games that don’t support these features.
In the video below, published shortly after the announcement, Nvidia shows how DLSS 4 (a feature called Multi Frame Generation, in fact) helps the RTX 5090 deliver double the frames as the RTX 4090 in a Cyberpunk 2077 ray-traced benchmark.
At least Cyberpunk 2077, Alan Wake 2, and Black Myth: Wukong are confirmed to support DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation.
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Huang doubled down on this AI uplift for the RTX 5070: “4090 performance at $549,” proclaimed Huang during the show.
“Impossible without artificial intelligence. Impossible without 4 teraops of AI Tensor cores. Impossible without the G7 memories.”
Here are some benchmark graphs, which Nvidia published alongside the announcement. What’s important to note is this is not strictly comparing silicon here, but also the new DLSS Multi Frame Generation feature, which is enabled on the RTX 50-series.
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At the beginning of the stream, Nvidia showed off a ray-traced scene rendered (inferred?) in real-time on Blackwell, which included new AI features to massively accelerate performance and save memory.
The RTX 50-series features an AI Management Processor, new Blackwell Tensor Cores with FP4 support, DLSS 4, and Huang alluded to in-shader AI acceleration to help spread the workload of the new AI systems.
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There is also the new DLSS Transformer model, which will power Ray Reconstruction, Super Resolution, and DLAA, and uses the same fundamental architecture design as AI models such as ChatGPT or Google Gemini. Nvidia claims these can improve temporal stability, reduce ghosting, and have higher detail in motion.
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RTX 50-series availability
As for when you can get your hands on these cards, here’s the availability:
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