At CES 2025, Nvidia announced the next line of its powerful graphics cards. Now, if you know your Nvidia, you’ve likely already been waiting for this, with leaks and rumors attempting to spill the beans early. Well, it’s now been officially confirmed.
The GeForce RTX 5000 series is coming soon. How soon, you ask? Well, if you’ve read the title of this piece, you already have some inkling. According to a recent post on the Nvidia website, you can expect to see the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 “on store shelves” come January 30. Then in February (though no exact date has been given yet), the 5070 and 5070 Ti will launch.
As for price, well the 5090 will be – as you would expect – quite the drain on the ol’ wallet. The RRP for this beast will start (START) at $1,999, while the 5080 will be $999. Naturally, prices go down as we hit the slightly less powerful models. The RTX 5070 Ti will start at $749, while the 5070 will be the cheapest of this lot at $549.
A lot of numbers to throw at us
Of course, this is a new generation, so we’re going to expect an ante-upping of the hardware specifications. Indeed, Nvidia says the RTX 5090 will boast a pretty mighty 32GB of GDDR7 memory and 21,760 CUDA Cores. For comparison, the RTX 4090 – currently the world’s most powerful GPU – has 24GB of RAM and 16,384 CUDA Cores.
Specs run like this for the other models, with some power uptick when compared to their 4000 series counterparts. Nvidia basically says that all new graphics cards will be twice as fast as the current generation. The video above shows the jump in framerate for Cyberpunk 2077 between the 4090 and 5090.
Of course, Nvidia is going to want to hype up these beefier graphics cards. The specifications do look impressive, but proper benchmark testing will say for certain whether it’s worth a full upgrade. There’s also the question of whether an RTX 5090 Ti will ever emerge given that it doesn’t look as though the 4090 Ti is being released, especially with new-gen breathing down our necks.
More upscaling for your buck
This wasn’t the only thing Nvidia announced at CES 2025, either. Along with the RTX 5000 series, the company is also launching the next generation of its Deep Learning Super Sampling upscaling technology.
DLSS 4 will introduce new AI in the form of Multi Frame Generation. Now, DLSS 3 already has single Frame Generation, but this next iteration “combines multiple Blackwell hardware and DLSS software innovations to make generating multiple frames a reality.” Make of that what you will.
MFG will support 75 games out of the door, including Cyberpunk 2077, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and Doom: The Dark Ages.
In a nutshell: Nvidia is releasing brand-new hardware over the coming weeks and, once again, I have to make peace with the fact that I still can’t afford any of this new PC technology that’s emerging. Sigh.
You can check out Jensen Huang’s full CES 2025 keynote speech below if you’re interested.
Published: Jan 7, 2025 05:29 am