Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 50-series GPUs today. After months of leaks and rumors, the next-generation RTX Blackwell GPUs are now official and there are are four of them on the way.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed the RTX 50-series GPUs during a CES keynote this evening, announcing a $1,999 RTX 5090, a $999 RTX 5080, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and a $549 RTX 5070.
The RTX 50-series GPUs will be available starting in January, and include a new design for the Founders Edition, with just two double flow through fans, a 3D vapor chamber, and GDDR7 memory.
Huang demonstrated Nvidia’s RTX Blackwell GPUs with a real time rendering demo at the beginning of the company’s CES keynote today. The demo included new RTX Neural Materials, RTX Neural Faces, text to animation, and even DLSS 4.
“The new generation of DLSS can generate beyond frames, it can predict the future,” says Huang. “We used GeForce to enable AI and now AI is revolutionizing GeForce.”
Nvidia’s RTX 50-series announcement comes more than two years after the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 were announced, based on Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace architecture. Nvidia’s RTX 40-series of GPUs focused on improving ray tracing with Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) version 3, and the RTX 4090 delivered some truly impressive performance gains over the previous RTX 3090 GPU.
