The Cards

At CES Las Vegas, NVIDIA announced four new desktop GPUs in the RTX 50 series: the RTX 5070, 5070 Ti, 5080, and the flagship 5090.

RTX 5090

The RTX 5090, in particular, stands out as an incredibly powerful option for gamers. Thanks to advancements in neural rendering and DLSS, the 5090 can handle demanding games smoothly, achieving amazing FPS rates (with upscaling and framegen). The GPU is equipped with a massive 32 GB of GDDR7 memory, the fastest memory available, running across a 512-bit memory interface. This provides an astounding 1.8 terabytes per second of memory bandwidth. All Blackwell GPUs support PCI-Express 5.0.

The number of GPU cores is 21,760, which is a +33% increase vs RTX 4090, which has 16,384 cores. The memory bus on RTX 4090 was 384-bit, so the 512-bit on RTX 5090 will result in additional performance improvements.


NVIDIA also highlighted the enhanced efficiency brought by DLSS 4. With DLSS on, gamers not only enjoy improved frame rates but also reduced latency, when considering absolute milliseconds. In direct comparisons with previous-generation models, the RTX 5090 shows 30-40% performance increase without DLSS 4, and more than +100% when multi-frame-gen is enabled. Do wait for our reviews though.


The thermal design of the RTX 5090 has been completely revamped to improve airflow and reduce noise. The GPU features a dual airflow design, which enhances cooling efficiency and reduces fan noise, even at high power levels. This new design is made possible by a smaller, more compact PCB, which allows for better airflow and greater overall system efficiency. As far as I know, the FE is the only card with such a small PCB and the custom designs from the various board partners use more traditional designs.

RTX 5080

The RTX 5080 comes with 16 GB of GDDR7 memory running at an impressive 30 Gbps clock rate. The number of cores is 10,752, which is a 5% improvement over RTX 4080 Super (10240 cores) and +10% more than RTX 4080 (9728 cores).


At raster, the performance uplift over RTX 4080 is small, like 10 to 15%. With DLSS 4, things look much better though.


RTX 5070 Ti has 16 GB of GDDR7 memory with 8960 shaders (RTX 4070: 7680 shaders, RTX 4070 Ti Super: 8448). Unlike the other three cards listed here, for the RTX 5070 Ti there will be no Founders Edition


Around +20% without DLSS 4, +100% with DLSS 4 enabled.


RTX 5070 comes with 12 GB of GDDR7—this is probably the card that AMD's RX 9070 will go up against.


Similar performance gains as RTX 5070 Ti.


With DLSS 4 multi-frame-generation enabled, the RTX 5070 reaches the same FPS levels as RTX 4090 (which supports only DLSS 3 Frame Generation).


The 50 series also supports PCI Express Gen 5 and DisplayPort 2.1, ensuring compatibility with the latest high-speed peripherals and displays. With up to three new encoders and two next-gen decoders.


Here's the pricing for the GeForce 50 cards: RTX 5090 = $2000, RTX 5080 = $1000, RTX 5070 Ti = $750, RTX 5070 = $550.

GeForce RTX 50 Laptops

NVIDIA's innovations are not limited to desktops. The company also introduced the RTX 50 series for laptops, focusing on power efficiency without compromising performance. The new architecture enables laptops to deliver 4090-level gaming performance while consuming significantly less power, extending battery life across various use cases.

The RTX 50 series laptops offer up to twice the AI performance of previous models, enabling faster processing of larger AI models. Additionally, video editing tasks, such as those in DaVinci Resolve, are up to 40% faster. Battery life has also seen a major boost, with many laptops now offering up to 40% more efficient power usage for gaming and content creation.