NVIDIA officially unveiled the RTX 50 series graphics processors at CES 2025. The company promises a 2x performance increase, thanks to AI, neural shaders, and DLSS 4.
The new graphics cards are compact, equipped with only two dual fans and a 3D Vapor Chamber. All cards in the RTX 50 series feature PCIe Gen 5 and DisplayPort 2.1b ports, allowing connection to displays with up to 8K resolution and a 165Hz refresh rate.
The prices for the new Nvidia graphics cards will be as follows: RTX 5090 — $1999, RTX 5080 — $999, RTX 5070 Ti — $749, and RTX 5070 — $549. The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 models will be available for sale on January 30, while the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will be available only in February.
As expected, the flagship RTX 5090 will be equipped with 32 GB of GDDR7 memory, a bandwidth of 1792 GB/s, and 21,760 CUDA cores. Thanks to the new DLSS 4 technology and the Blackwell architecture, the RTX 5090 delivers double the performance compared to the RTX 4090.
NVIDIA demonstrated the difference using Cyberpunk 2077 as an example.
However, this level of performance comes at the cost of increased power consumption. The RTX 5090 will have a total power draw of 575 W and will require a 1000 W power supply, which is 125 W more than the RTX 4090.
The RTX 5080 will be equipped with 16 GB of GDDR7 memory, a bandwidth of 960 GB/s, and 10,752 CUDA cores. The total power consumption of the GPU will be 360 W, and NVIDIA recommends using a power supply with 850 W. The company promises to double the performance compared to the RTX 4080.
The RTX 5070 Ti will feature 16 GB of GDDR7 memory, a bandwidth of 896 GB/s, and 8,960 CUDA cores. The total power consumption of the GPU will be 300 W, and a 750 W power supply will be required.
The RTX 5070 will have 12 GB of GDDR7 memory, a memory bandwidth of 672 GB/s, and 6,144 CUDA cores. The RTX 5070 will require 250 W of power, with a recommended 650 W power supply.
NVIDIA’s CEO, Jensen Huang, stated during the presentation that even the smallest RTX 5070 model would be able to achieve the performance of the RTX 4090 thanks to DLSS 4 technology.
NVIDIA also unveiled a series of RTX 50 graphics cards for laptops: the RTX 5090 for laptops will have 24 GB of GDDR7 memory, the RTX 5080 will have 16 GB of GDDR7, the RTX 5070 Ti will feature 12 GB of GDDR7, and the RTX 5070 will have 8 GB of GDDR7.
The first laptops with RTX 50 series GPUs from various manufacturers will be available in March 2025.
By the way, the company also demonstrated new technologies achieved in the RTX 50 generation. According to Jensen Huang, DLSS 4 is capable of rendering images in the background ahead of time, which is expected to reduce the number of graphical artifacts. The new Multi Frame Generation technology generates up to three additional frames for every traditional frame, potentially increasing the frame rate up to 8 times compared to conventional rendering.
DLSS 4 will also be available on previous generations of RTX graphics cards, starting from the RTX 20 series.
