Nvidia has finally pulled back the curtain on its next series of graphics cards. If you’ve somehow avoided the mountain of rumors and leaks about Nvidia’s powerful, ridiculous, and power-hungry RTX 50-series GPUs, that’s it and more.
The new Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series includes all the usual suspects, although we will be seeing more powerful cards first. The RTX 5070, 5070 Ti, 5080, and top-of-the-line 5090 are all present and accounted for. This is the first time that Nvidia has decided to release a “titanium” card compatible with the main card, although there is nothing wrong with having more options up front.
They are also the most expensive cards the company has ever produced. The RTX 4090 will retail for $1,600. To clear up the mess, the company also announced that the RTX 5070 will cost $550. The RTX 5070 Ti will cost $750 and the 5080 will be $1,000.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage of the Michelob Ultra stadium at the Mandalay Bay casino and first asked the crowd “do you like my jacket?” You have reason to behave like a celebrity. The company’s AI training chips have made it one of the most profitable companies in the world. AI was the main theme behind his entire presentation. It was one of the main reasons that the new RTX video specs seemed strange.
He went on to say that people picking up the RTX 5070, even on a laptop, can expect performance on par with the RTX 4090. A big part of that, he said, is due to the company’s Tensor cores and the AI ​​that underpins the card’s performance. .
“GeForce has brought AI to the masses,” he said. “Now we’re bringing AI to GeForce.”
The top Blackwell cards will have 380 RT TFLOPS and 125 shader TFLOPS and a memory bandwidth of 1.8 TB/s. We’ll get more word on the exact numbers of CUDA cores and VRAM soon, but it’s safe to say that the RTX 5090 is more than 50% more card than Nvidia’s previous larger, more powerful GPU, the RTX 4090.
Add to all that is a new AI software implementation suggested in DLSS 4. This now includes ray reconstruction and high resolution models aided by AI transformer models.
You’d have to have a big case and big pockets to even consider sticking the RTX 5090 in your case. Meanwhile, the RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 offer more power than their counterparts from two years ago.
The new Blackwell cards should arrive in the next few weeks. What was not heard was the mention of many end-of-budget cards. We’ll have to wait a few months for the RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 Ti to appear.
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