At CES 2025, Nvidia announced the next line of its powerful graphics cards. If you know your Nvidia, you’ve probably already been waiting for this, with leaks and rumors trying to reveal the truth early on. Well, now it has been officially confirmed.
The GeForce RTX 5000 series is coming soon. How soon, you ask? Well, if you read the title of this article, you already have some premonitions. According to a recent entry on Nvidia websiteyou can expect the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 to appear on store shelves on January 30. Then in February (although no exact date has been announced yet), the 5070 and 5070 Ti models will be released.
As for the price, well, the 5090 will – as you might expect – be quite a burden on the aged wallet. This beast will start at MSRP (START) for $1,999, while the 5080 will cost $999. Prices, of course, drop when we get models with slightly weaker power. The RTX 5070 Ti will start at $749, and the 5070 will be the cheapest in the lineup at $549.
Lots of numbers to throw at us
This is, of course, a modern generation, so we will expect an boost in hardware specifications. Indeed, Nvidia claims that the RTX 5090 will boast a pretty massive 32GB of GDDR7 memory and 21,760 CUDA cores. For comparison, RTX 4090 – currently the most powerful graphics processor in the world – has 24 GB of RAM and 16,384 CUDA cores.
The specifications of the remaining models look similar, with some boost in power compared to their 4000-series counterparts. Nvidia is basically saying that all modern graphics cards will be twice as brisk as the current generation. The video above shows the frame rate spike for Cyberpunk 2077 between 4090 and 5090.
Of course, Nvidia will want to promote these more powerful graphics cards. The specs do look impressive, but proper benchmarks will tell you for sure whether it’s worth the full upgrade. There’s also the question of whether there will ever be an RTX 5090 Ti, considering it doesn’t look like the 4090 Ti will be released, especially with the modern generation breathing down our necks.
More scaling for your buck
That’s not the only thing Nvidia announced at CES 2025. With the RTX 5000 series, the company is also launching the next generation of Deep Learning Super Sampling scaling technology.
DLSS 4 will introduce modern artificial intelligence in the form of multi-frame generation. Currently, DLSS 3 already enables single frame generation, but the next version “combines many innovations in Blackwell hardware and DLSS software to make multi-frame generation a reality.” Make of it what you want.
MFG will support 75 out-door games incl Cyberpunk 2077, Indiana Jones and the Great CircleAND Doom: The Dark Ages.
In compact: Nvidia will be releasing brand modern hardware in the coming weeks and once again I have to come to terms with the fact that I still can’t afford any of the modern computing technologies that are emerging. Sigh.
If you’re interested, you can check out Jensen Huang’s full CES 2025 keynote below.
