Ahead of the pending launch of its new RTX 50-series graphics cards. Nvidia released a flood of new details about its GPU architecture and the AI features that will bolster it. Here's a rundown of the highlights.

The new Blackwell architecture holds benefits for gamers as well as generative AI fans. There's just something about a new graphics processor architecture that gets everyone's juices flowing, either to covet it or complain. Or oddly, sometimes both. So happy CES 2025 from Nvidia!

Nvidia says the RTX 5090 is “2X Faster Than The GeForce RTX 4090;” the RTX 5080 is “Twice As Fast As The GeForce RTX 4080;” the RTX 5070 is “2X Faster Than The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti;” and the RTX 5070 is as fast as the RTX 4090.

Nvidia revealed its next generation of graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 50-series, at CES this week. There are four new GPUs in the lineup: the Geforce RTX 5090, 5080, 5070, and 5070 Ti.

We now know more details about Nvidia's upcoming GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070 graphics cards. Here's some broader specs info on every new RTX 5000 GPU.

The new GeForce RTX 5090 is the top of the line and the star of the show (so much so that it actually leaked just hours before it was officially unveiled), but Nvidia is actually launching four new 50-series GPUs at CES 2025, with the desktop models starting to ship this month and laptop versions arriving in March.

I’ve seen the RTX 5090 double the framerate of 4090, though a big part of that is due to DLSS 4 and multi-frame gen. Best of CES 2025 Awards ➜ We may earn a commission when you buy through links on our sites.