After months of rumors, Nvidia debuted its newest technology of desktop and laptop computer graphics playing cards at CES 2025. The RTX 50-series is the quickest lineup of GPUs Nvidia has developed. Beginning with its RTX 5070, Nvidia claims it delivers the equal efficiency to the earlier technology’s prime mannequin, the RTX 4090, at simply $549 as an alternative of the 4090’s $1,599. Shifting on up, the RTX 5070 Ti will price $749, $999 for the RTX 5080, and $1,999 for the RTX 5090. All of those playing cards might be accessible beginning later this month.
The RTX 50-series marks the bounce to GDDR7 video reminiscence (VRAM), which is each extra highly effective and energy environment friendly than the GDDR6x utilized in most RTX 40-series playing cards. Chief among the many new options within the RTX 50-series playing cards — except for their horsepower enhance — is DLSS 4. It builds on Nvidia’s earlier iterations, all of which purpose to extend gaming efficiency whereas making a sequence of visible trade-offs (i.e. decreasing the render decision, utilizing AI to generate new frames to make video games run smoother) which are changing into increasingly tough to identify because the tech improves. Nvidia touts that DLSS 4 faucets into AI much more — producing 3 frames with skilled AI for each 1 rendered on the GPU — to permit video games to look higher and run sooner. Leaning so closely on Tensor AI cores on the GPU is a part of what makes Nvidia’s RTX 50-series extra environment friendly, so says Nvidia.
It was a giant day for brand spanking new gaming GPUs, as AMD additionally introduced some new {hardware} at CES. The corporate’s new RDNA 4 graphics structure and FSR4 upscaling and body technology tech will debut in graphics playing cards coming quickly, together with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and the RX 9070. Pricing and availability haven’t been introduced for these playing cards, although they’ll doubtless compete straight in opposition to the GPUs in Nvidia’s RTX 50-series lineup.
