Nvidia introduces new AI-powered RTX 50 graphic chips─starting prices revealed
Promotional illustration shows an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card. (Photo via nvidia.com)
U.S.-based tech giant Nvidia introduced its new series of graphics chips powered by artificial intelligence (AI), RTX 50 at CES 2025, a major annual tech conference held in Las Vegas, on Tuesday.
- GeForce RTX 5090: Fastest GPU with 92 billion transistors, offering 3,352 trillion AI operations per second (TOPS) at $1,999.
- GeForce RTX 5080: 1,800 AI TOPS at $999.
- GeForce RTX 5070 Ti: 1,400 AI TOPS at $749.
- GeForce RTX 5070: 1,000 AI TOPS at $549.
GeForce Blackwell comes to laptops with all the features of desktop models, bringing a considerable upgrade to portable computing, including extraordinary graphics capabilities and remarkable efficiency.
Powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, fifth-generation Tensor Cores and fourth-generation RT Cores, the GeForce RTX 50 Series delivers breakthroughs in AI-driven rendering, including neural shaders, digital human technologies, geometry and lighting.
| Specs | RTX 5090 | RTX 5080 | RTX 5070 Ti | RTX 5070 |
| NVIDIA Encoder (NVENC) | 3x 9th Gen | 2x 9th Gen | 2x 9th Gen | 1x 9th Gen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Decoder (NVDEC) | 2x 6th Gen | 2x 6th Gen | 1x 6th Gen | 1x 6th Gen |
| Memory Configuration | 32 GB GDDR7 | 16 GB GDDR7 | 16 GB GDDR7 | 12 GB GDDR7 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 1792 GB/sec | 960 GB/sec | 896 GB/sec | 672 GB/sec |
The latest GPUs feature Nvidia’s proprietary Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) 4 technology, including a newly developed multi-frame generation function. DLSS improves gaming performance by lowering a scene’s internal rendering resolution and using AI to upscale the image in real-time, allowing for smoother, faster gameplay without a noticeable drop in image quality.
Nvidia’s RTX 50 series to be put on market in first half
In a news release, Nvidia said DLSS 4 and multi-frame generation will be exclusive to the RTX 50 Series and enable ray-traced gaming at 4K resolution with up to 240 frames per second, marking a major advancement in graphics performance.
Laptops with GeForce RTX 5090 and other 50 series models will be available starting in the first half of 2025 from several manufacturers, including Acer, ASUS, Dell, GIGABYTE, HP, Lenovo, MECHREVO, MSI and Razer.
Nvidia first introduced its GeForce RTX series in September 2018 as the world’s first graphics chips capable of real-time ray tracing─a technique that simulates how light behaves in the real world.
In December, another tech giant, Google, introduced a quantum chip called Willow that can complete a benchmark computation in under five minutes, a task that would take today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years, the company claimed.
This breakthrough highlights the potential to overcome current computational limits, enabling advanced AI models to tackle previously insurmountable challenges.
As companies produce AI-based and quantum-related technologies for everyday life technologies, people are likely to see many more high-tech products entering their lives at more affordable prices.
