Nvidia announces RTX 50-series GPUs: Price, AI features, and more you need to know

Nvidia has unveiled its next-generation RTX 50-series graphics cards. These were officially announced at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. The brand claims that the new GPUs take a leap forward with their high-powered performance and advanced AI features.

The RTX 50-series is equipped with the Blackwell architecture that will allow the players to experience a new approach towards gaming with AI-powered experiences, and more. We explored Nvidia’s latest innovation, and here is everything you need to know about it.

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Key features of the Nvidia RTX 50-Series explored

At the heart of the RTX 50-series lies the Blackwell architecture. It features up to 92 billion transistors, which is the most for any consumer GPU. Besides, this architecture introduces Neural Rendering. The specialty of this feature is that it uses Artificial Intelligence for real-time image generation and improved visual textures.

It also has an enhanced ray tracing that comes with 2x the ray-triangle intersection rate for better lighting and reflections. The GDDR7 memory speeds it up to 30Gbps for demanding tasks.

Below is what the brand highlighted about the Blackwell architecture in an official press release:

"The NVIDIA RTX Blackwell architecture has been built and optimized for neural rendering. It has a massive amount of processing power, with new engines and features specifically designed to accelerate the next generation of neural rendering."

It also adds,

"The Blackwell streaming multiprocessor (SM) has been updated with more processing throughput, and a tighter integration with the Tensor Cores in order to optimize the performance of neural shaders"

The Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) 4 technology is another core feature of the new GPU series. It is featured with Multi Frame Generation and uses AI to boost frame rates by up to 8x. This ensures smoother gameplay with better image quality.

Neural Shaders further improve graphical appeal by compressing textures and enabling cinematic visuals. Neural Faces, a generative AI-based feature, uses the same technique to enhance character realism.

Here is how the brand is presenting Neural Shaders and Neural Faces:

"RTX Neural Shaders will drive the next decade of graphics innovations. They can be used to compress textures by up to 7X, saving massive amounts of graphics memory. And be used to create cinematic-quality textures, and even more advanced lighting effects in games."

"RTX Neural Faces offers an innovative, new approach to improve face quality using generative AI. Instead of traditional rendering, Neural Faces takes a simple rasterized face plus 3D pose data as input and uses a real-time generative AI model to infer a more natural face."

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Breaking down the Nvidia RTX 50 lineup

The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 desktop GPUs will be made available to the public on January 30, 2025. The 5070 Ti and 5070 will follow in February 2025. Pricing ranges from $549 to $1,999.

For laptops, major brands like ASUS, Lenovo, Dell, and Razer will integrate these GPUs, starting in March 2025. Below is a detailed preview of the key details of the upcoming Nvidia GPU series.

Desktop GPUs

RTX 5090

• Price: $1,999
• Features: 21,760 CUDA cores, 32GB GDDR7 memory, and a 512-bit memory bus.
• Power Consumption: 575W

RTX 5080

• Price: $999
• Features: 10,752 CUDA cores, 16GB GDDR7 memory.
• Advantage: 34% faster memory bandwidth than its predecessor

RTX 5070 Ti

• Price: $749
• Features: 8,960 CUDA cores, 16GB GDDR7 memory.

RTX 5070

• Price: $549
• Features: 6,144 CUDA cores, 12GB memory.
• Advantage: Twice the speed of the RTX 4070.

Laptops

• RTX 5090 Laptop GPU: 24GB GDDR7 memory, 10,496 CUDA cores
• RTX 5080 Laptop GPU: 7,680 CUDA cores.
• RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU: 5,888 CUDA cores.

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Keep an eye on the official pages for more updates.

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