On the same day that NVIDIA briefly became the world’s most valuable company, CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage at CES 2025 to announce the company’s long-awaited new Blackwell graphics card family. The first mass launch of RTX 50-series GPUs is expected to arrive in January, with prices starting at $549 for the RTX 5070 and topping out at an astonishing $1,999 for the flagship RTX 5090. In between them is the $749 RTX 5070 Ti and the $999 RTX 5080. A laptop version of the desktop GPU will follow in March, with prices starting at . $1,299 for a 5070-equipped PC.
In terms of specs, the RTX 5090 Founders Edition packs 32GB of GDDR7 RAM and 21,760 CUDA cores. Depending on the game, NVIDIA says the 5090 will deliver up to twice the relative performance, with RT-intensive titles like Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 benefiting the most.
NVIDIA kicked off the Blackwell portion of its CES presentation with a demo of its next-generation Assassin’s Creed game, featuring the most realistic ray-traced graphics in the series’ history. “This is all a GeForce-built house using AI,” said Huang, wearing a new snakeskin-like jacket instead of his signature leather one. “Now AI is back on GeForce.”
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