Nvidia Geforce RTX 50 Series Graphics Cards: Price, Specs, and Everything Else

Nvidia has announced its latest generation of Geforce RTX graphics cards, based on its Blackwell architecture of GPUs. The RTX 50 series is launching at the end of January, with four tiers of cards announced at the event. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also announced other additions to the company's products like Geforce NOW coming to Steam Deck, Nvidia Broadcast app updates, and more during the presentation.

You can check out our high-level breakdown of Nvidia's CES announcements, but if you're here just to know how each new GPU stacks up, keep on reading.

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Nvidia Geforce RTX 50 GPUs: specs explained

The RTX 50 series is based on the Blackwell architecture, utilizing ninth-generation NVENC encoders, fifth-generation Tensor cores, and fourth-generation ray tracing cores. Nvidia announced four graphics cards at the event: RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070.

Nvidia's highest-tier consumer-level graphics card is the RTX 5090, which is claimed to be twice as fast in AI-enhanced gaming performance as the RTX 4090. With 3352 AI TOPS and 21760 CUDA cores, the RTX 5090 is a formidable GPU, sipping up 575W of total graphics power. That's what packing 92 billion transistors performing over 3342 trillion AI operations per second will do.

The RTX 5070, the lowest-tier card announced at CES, has 988 AI TOPS and 6144 CUDA cores. Compared to the previous generation RTX 4070, the 5070 has more than twice the TOPS, resulting in much faster performance in AI applications.

"Blackwell, the engine of AI, has arrived for PC gamers, developers and creatives," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "Fusing AI-driven neural rendering and ray tracing, Blackwell is the most significant computer graphics innovation since we introduced programmable shading 25 years ago."

Nvidia Geforce RTX 50 GPUs: prices and availability

Here are the prices and release windows for the announced RTX graphics cards:

• Nvidia Geforce RTX 5070 - $549, releasing February 2025
• Nvidia Geforce RTX 5070 Ti - $749, releasing February 2025
• Nvidia Geforce RTX 5080 - $999, releasing January 30
• Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090 - $1,999, releasing January 30

Nvidia Geforce RTX 50 series uses DLSS 4

The Geforce RTX 50 series uses a new model of DLSS upscaling and super resolution to achieve improved performance compared to the previous generation. This is because DLSS 4 uses what Nvidia calls Multi Frame Generation, which "generates up to three additional frames per traditionally rendered frame".

Multi Frame Generation via DLSS 4 will be exclusive to the Blackwell family of graphic cards, although general improvements to DLSS functions will be made available to existing cards. This is because the new DLSS features are powered by a transformer-based model, replacing the Convolutional Neural Network model. DLSS 4 is claimed to be "40% faster" while using "30% less VRAM".

A total of 75 games have been confirmed to support DLSS 4 at launch, with more on the way. Nvidia has also announced Reflex 2, an improved version of its latency-reducing technology. Reflex 2 uses "Frame Warp technology" to reduce latency by up to 75%. The feature will debut in The Finals and Valorant.

Geforce RTX 50 GPU owners can force DLSS 4 in unsupported games

A new Nvidia app update will let RTX 50 GPU owners force games to use the latest DLSS model using Multi Frame Generation even if the game officially isn't supported. This will be available following the release of a new GeForce Game Ready Driver, which will arrive alongside the RTX 5090's launch.

Owners of previous generation Nvidia RTX 40 GPUs can also use the override feature, though they won't be able to use DLSS 4's Multi Frame Generation. Nvidia confirmed that upcoming games like Doom: The Dark Ages and Avowed will launch with DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation at launch.

At CES, AMD also announced its new Ryzen Z2 processors for the Lenovo Legion Go, while Acer launched the Nitro Blaze 8 and 11 handhelds. Atari is also revealing a new handheld console called the Gamestation Go at the convention.