Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 50-series GPUs today. After months of leaks and rumors, the next-generation RTX Blackwell GPUs are now official, and there are four of them coming.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed the RTX 50-series GPUs during the CES keynote this evening, announcing the $1,999 RTX 5090, $999 RTX 5080, $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and $549 RTX 5070.
The RTX 50-series GPUs will be available starting in January and include a new design for the Founders Edition, featuring only two double flow-through fans, a 3D vapor chamber, and GDDR7 memory.
Surprisingly, the RTX 5090 Founders Edition will be a two-slot GPU and will be able to fit inside small form factor PCs. It has 32GB of GDDR7, 1,792GB/second of memory bandwidth, and 21,760 CUDA cores. It all adds up to a GPU that Nvidia says will be up to twice as fast as the RTX 4090 thanks to DLSS4 and Blackwell architecture.
Nvidia demonstrated cyberpunk 2077 Running at 238fps on the RTX 5090 with DLSS 4, while running at 106fps on the RTX 4090 with DLSS 3.5. Both GPUs are running the game with full ray tracing enabled.
The RTX 5080 is designed to be twice as fast as the RTX 4080, and will include 16GB of GDDR7 memory, 960GB/second of memory bandwidth, and 10,752 CUDA cores. As a result Nvidia is promising big performance gains with the RTX 5080 compared to the previous RTX 4080 model.
Huang demonstrated Nvidia's RTX Blackwell GPU with a real-time rendering demo at the beginning of the company's CES keynote today. The demo included new RTX Neural Materials, RTX Neural Faces, Text to Animation, and even DLSS4. “The new generation of DLSS can generate beyond the frame, it can predict the future,” Huang says. “We used GeForce to enable AI, and now AI is revolutionizing GeForce.”
Nvidia's new RTX Neural Shaders can be used to compress textures in games, while RTX Neural Faces aims to improve facial quality using generative AI. According to Nvidia, the next generation of DLSS includes Multi Frame Generation, which generates three additional frames per traditional rendering and can increase frame rates up to 8 times compared to traditional rendering.
DLSS 4 also includes real-time application of Transformers to improve image quality, reduce ghosting and add higher detail in motion.
Nvidia's RTX 50-series is announced after more than two years RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 announcedBased on Nvidia's Ada Lovelace architecture. Nvidia's RTX 40-series GPUs focused on improving ray tracing with Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) version 3, and the RTX 4090 provided some Really impressive performance gains More than the previous RTX 3090 GPU.