Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs Unveiled At CES 2025; Deliver AI-Powered Rendering

Nvidia on Jan. 6 unveiled its most advanced graphics processor units—the GeForce RTX 50 series—for gamers, creators, and developers, at the Consumer Electronics Show 2025.

Powered by the Nvidia Blackwell architecture, fifth-generation Tensor Cores and fourth-generation RT Cores, the GeForce RTX 50 series delivers artificial intelligence-driven rendering, including neural shaders, digital human technologies, geometry, and lighting.

The GeForce RTX 5090 GPU—the fastest GeForce RTX GPU to date—features 92 billion transistors, providing over 3,352 trillion AI operations per second of computing power, Nvidia claimed. With Blackwell architecture and DLSS 4 (a suite of neural rendering technologies), the 5090 outperforms its predecessor 4090 by up to 2x.

The RTX 5090 comes with 32GB GDDR7 memory, 21,760 CUDA cores, and bandwidth of 1,792GB/second.

The RTX 5080 has 16GB GDDR7 memory, 10,752 CUDA cores, and a bandwidth of 960GB/second, doubling its speed from the RTX 4080.

In the mid-range, the RTX 5070 Ti has 16GB GDDR7 memory, 8,960 CUDA cores, and 896GB/second bandwidth, whereas the RTX 5070 has 12GB GDDR7 memory, 6,144 CUDA cores, and 672GB/second bandwidth.

DLSS 4 now features Multi Frame Generation to boost frame rates by using AI to generate up to three frames per rendered frame. It works with other technologies to increase performance by up to 8x over traditional rendering, Nvidia said.

DLSS 4 also has a transformer model architecture, which uses 2x more parameters and 4x more compute to provide reduced ghosting and better stability, detail, and anti-aliasing in game scenes. DLSS 4 will be supported on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs in over 75 games and applications. Frame Warp technology further reduces latency, making gaming more responsive.

Alongside the GeForce RTX 50 series, Nvidia also introduced RTX Neural Shaders, which uses AI to offer film-quality materials and lighting in real-time games. The RTX Neural Faces technology uses generative AI to render a temporally stable, high-quality digital face.

RTX Neural Faces is complemented by new RTX technologies for ray-traced hair and skin, including RTX Mega Geometry, which enables up to 100x more ray-traced triangles in a scene, Nvidia said.

Nvidia is also introducing a suite of new ACE technologies that enable game characters to perceive, plan and act like human players. ACE-powered autonomous characters will be integrated into Krafton’s PUBG: Battlegrounds and InZOI, the publisher’s upcoming life simulation game, as well as Wemade Next’s MIR5.

The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 will be available on Jan. 30 at $1,999 and $999, respectively. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will be available starting February at $749 and $549, respectively.