NVIDIA unveiled the RTX 5000 Blackwell GPUs at its CES 2025 keynote, with four models launching later in the first quarter. The RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti are aimed at the mid-range, with NVIDIA touting breakneck gains for both cards – the brand says the 5070 will deliver equivalent performance to the RTX 4090 thanks to the benefits achieved through DLSS 4 multi-frame generation technology.
The RTX 5070 debuts at $549, while the RTX 5070 Ti debuts at $749. Both cards will go on sale sometime in February. But it’s the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 that are of more interest, as both variants offer significant improvements over their predecessors.
The RTX 5080 debuts at $999, which is the same price as the 4080 Super last year, but you’ll get 2x the performance. Meanwhile, the RTX 5090 will be available for $1,999, making it NVIDIA’s most expensive GPU to date. The RTX 4090 was released at $1,599 in October 2022, but the RTX 5090 is touted to be twice as powerful as its predecessor.
It has 32GB of GDDR7 memory over a 512-bit bus, delivering an incredible 1.8TB/s of bandwidth. You also get 92 billion transistors, 21,760 CUDA cores, 380 teraflops with ray tracing, 4,000 AI TOPS, and a 575W TDP, so you’ll need at least a 1000W power supply if you want to use it.
The RTX 5080 features 16GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus with 960GB/s bandwidth, 10,752 CUDA cores and a TDP of 360W.
NVIDIA is also introducing DLSS 4, which is capable of inserting three additional frames into each rendered frame while using less video memory than previous models.
As in previous years, NVIDIA is releasing Founders Editions for the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, and they will be available starting January 30th. You can also purchase AIB cards from ASUS, Colorful, Gainward, GALAX, Gigabyte. , INNO3D, KFA2, MSI, Palit, PNY and ZOTAC starting January 30, and RTX 5090 and 5080 laptops will be available starting March 2025 when Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, MECHREVO, MSI and Razer will present new products.