Nvidia CEO Reveals Cutting-Edge RTX 50-Series GPUs at CES 2025
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RDA Gulf Correspondent - . January 7, 2025
- . Update: January 7, 2025 4:16 pm
On Tuesday, January 7th CEO Jensen Huang of semiconductor giant Nvidia presented the company’s new cutting edge RTX 50-series graphics cards at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The series which uses the Blackwell architecture contains the RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 providing up to twice the performance and significantly increased efficiency to high performance.
The RTX 50-series also focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) characteristics. “Blackwell, the engine of AI, has arrived for PC gamers, developers and creatives,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Fusing AI-driven neural rendering and ray tracing, Blackwell is the most significant computer graphics innovation since we introduced programmable shading 25 years ago.”
DLSS 4 hasFrame rates are increased by up to eight times improving image quality and minimizing visual artifacts. Neural Shaders improves game textures resulting in richer and more realistic visual effects. Neural Faces uses generative AI to create lifelike character expressions.
RTX 50 Series Specifications:
Nvidia claims that the top of the line RTX 5090 delivers twice the performance compared to the RTX 4090 while also being compact making it suited for smaller PC cases. The RTX 5090 which uses NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture and the latest DLSS 4 technology offers 32GB of GDDR7 memory, 21,760 CUDA cores and a bandwidth of 1,792GB/sec. This means the GPU can run Cyberpunk 2077 at 238fps with ray tracing enabled. The catch is that it requires a 1,000-watt PSU and can draw up to 575 watts.
The RTX 5080 on the other hand has 16GB GDDR7 memory, 10,752 CUDA cores and a bandwidth of 960GB/sec making it twice as fast as the previous RTX 4080. However, it requires an 850-watt power supply unit (PSU).
The RTX 5070 Ti features 16GB GDDR7 memory, 8,960 CUDA cores and a bandwidth of 896GB/sec while the RTX 5070 has 12GB GDDR7 memory, 6,144 CUDA cores and a bandwidth of 672GB/sec. These are the more economical, mid range choices, boasting twice the performance of their older counterparts in comparison with the RTX 40-series.
