Nvidia Unveils RTX 50 Series GPUs Led by the Gigantic RTX 5090

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, huge, power-hungry RTX 50 GPUs, it’s all that and more.

The new Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series includes all the usual suspects, although we’ll see the most powerful cards first. The high-end RTX 5070, 5070 Ti, 5080, and 5090 are all present and accounted for. This is the first time Nvidia has decided to release a “titanium” edition card alongside the main card, although there’s nothing wrong with having more options from the start.

They are also the most expensive cards the company has ever produced. The RTX 5090 will cost $2,000. To ease the discomfort, the company also said the RTX 5070 will cost $550. The RTX 5070 Ti will cost $750 and the 5080 $1,000.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Mandalay Bay Casino’s Michelob Ultra Arena and first asked the crowd “do you like my jacket?” » He has a reason to act like a celebrity. The company’s AI training chips have made it one of the most profitable in the world. AI was the main theme of his entire presentation. This is one of the main reasons why the specifications of the new RTX video cards seem so far-fetched.

He further claimed that people using an RTX 5070, even on a laptop, can expect performance on par with the RTX 4090. This is largely due, he said, to the cores Enterprise tensor and AI that safeguards the performance of the card. .

“GeForce brought AI to the masses,” he said. “Now we’re bringing AI to GeForce.”

High-end Blackwell cards will have 380 RT TFLOPS and 125 shader TFLOPS plus 1.8 TB/s memory bandwidth. We’ll have more information on the exact number of CUDA cores and VRAMs soon, but it’s safe to say that the RTX 5090 is 50% larger than Nvidia’s previous massive and ultra-powerful GPU, the RTX 4090.

Add to all this a new scaled AI software suite in DLSS 4. This now includes updated ray reconstruction and super resolution models assisted by AI transformer models.

You’d have to have a big case and big pockets to even think about putting an 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 coming weeks. What hasn’t been brought up is mention of more end-of-budget cards. You will have to wait a few months for the RTX 5050, 5060 and 5060 Ti to appear.

Updated 06/01/25 at 11:23 p.m. PT: This article has been edited to correct the price of the RTX 5090.

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