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Blackwell has arrived. At CES on Monday night, Nvidia unveiled its long-awaited next generation of GeForce RTX graphics cards based on its latest Blackwell microarchitecture, and the race will soon be on with AI teams training both big language models and PC gamers. to devour these new cards. as soon as they are released.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage in Las Vegas and announced four new GeForce RTX desktop GPUs: the flagship RTX 5090 along with the RTX 5080, 5070 Ti, and 5070.
The GeForce RTX 5090 is twice as fast as the previous RTX 4090, according to Huang, thanks to the new Blackwell architecture and DLS 4. It has 92 billion transistors capable of performing more than 3,352 trillion AI operations per second. DLSS 4 introduces multi-frame rendering that improves frame rates by using AI to generate up to three frames per rendered frame. DLSS 4 will be supported in more than 75 games and apps on launch day.
And launch day is coming soon. The RTX 5090 and 5080 will begin shipping on January 30, with the 5070 Ti and 5070 following in February. Here is the price:
- RTX 5090: $1,999
- RTX 5080: $999
- RTX 5070 Ti: $749
- RTX 5070: $549
In addition to Nvidia’s Founders Edition cards, versions using GPUs will be available through Nvidia’s usual partners, including Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, PNY, and Zotac.
Laptops with mobile versions of the RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, and 5070 are scheduled to begin shipping in March.
In this era of AI, Huang focused on the AI TOPS numbers of new GPUs rather than CUDA cores. Here are the AI TOPS counts of the four new desktop GPUs:
- RTX 5090: TOP 3,352
- RTX 5080: TOP 1,801
- RTX 5070 Ti: 1,406 TOPS
- RTX 5070: 988 TOPS
And AI is in the new graphics cards. In addition to DLSS 4, Nvidia’s new RTX Neural Shaders use AI to compress textures for greater memory efficiency, and RTX Neural Faces uses AI to improve the quality of character faces in games.
