At CES 2025, Nvidia has finally unveiled its newest generation of graphics cards. Dubbed the GeForce RTX 50 series, the new GPUs run on Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture, and boast considerable improvements over their previous-generation counterparts.
The company unveiled four graphics cards as part of the new line-up: the RTX 5090, the RTX 5080, the RTX 5070 Ti, and the RTX 5070.
According to Nvidia’s announcement, the new 50-series GPUs are twice as fast as their 40-series counter-parts. The GeForce RTX 5090 is the new flagship graphics card for Nvidia, and boasts 32 GB of GDDR7 VRAM, 1,792 GB/sec memory bandwidth, 21,760 CUDA cores, 680 fifth-generation Tensor cores, and 170 fourth-generation ray tracing cores.
Along with great performance in gaming, the GPU also boasts high performance in generative AI applications. The GeForce RTX 5080 is the second-best GPU launching in Nvidia’s new line-up, featuring 16 GB of GDDR7 VRAM and 960 GB/sec memory bandwidth.
The game boasts double the performance of the GeForce RTX 4080 in games ranging from Far Cry 6 to Alan Wake 2 and Black Myth: Wukong.