Nvidia announces RTX 50 graphics

The new Blackwell promises big performance gains

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang used Electronics the Consumer Show to announce the first batch of RTX 50 GPUs. Four models will deploy the company's latest Blackwell graphics architecture. The flagship RTX 5090 Founders Edition is a two-slot GPU with 32GB of GDDR7 RAM, memory bandwidth of 1,792GB/sec, and 21,760 CUDA cores. It's currently priced at $1,999.

Nvidia began its Blackwell demo by showcasing gameplay of a next-gen Assassin's Creed game to demonstrate the architecture's ray tracing features. It has also shared a benchmarking video of Cyberpunk 2077. Using the RTX 5090, it ran at 242fps, compared to 109fps on the RTX 4090, at least with DLSS used.

The RTX 5080 has a more modest price, the same $999 as the RTX 4080 Super. It comes with 16GB of GDDR7 memory with a bandwidth of 960GB/sec, and 10,752 CUDA cores, the latter representing an uptick over the 10,240 cores of the 4080 Super.

As for the new GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and GeForce RTX 5070, they're priced at $749 and $549. However, both midrange graphics cards bring modest at best spec bumps.