NVIDIA announced the Blackwell family of video cards, which can truly be called long-awaited. GeForce RTX 5090 costs not as much as the leaks claimed.
At CES 2025, NVIDIA introduced four desktop video cards: RTX 5090 with a recommended price of $1999, RTX 5080 ($999, price of RTX 4080 Super), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), and RTX 5070 ($549). The new generation features PCIe 5.0 interface, GDDR7 memory, and DisplayPort 2.1a. All RTX 50xx cards have a 16-pin power connector, as anticipated.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 received the GB202 graphics processor with 21,760 CUDA cores — the first GeForce video card to exceed the 20 thousand cores mark. The flagship video card is the only model equipped with a 512-bit memory bus and 32 GB of GDDR7 memory. It consumes 575 watts — 125 watts more than the RTX 4090.
The flagship received a new Founders Edition design. Interestingly, despite its power and enormous energy consumption, the RTX 5090 occupies only two slots with the new 3D Vapor Chamber cooling system design and a relatively small printed circuit board.
RTX 5080 received GPU GB203 with 10,752 CUDA cores — the full configuration of the chip. NVIDIA equipped it with 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus. Notably, it is the only model in the RTX 50 series with the fastest memory speed of 30 Gbps. RTX 5080 has a TDP of 360 watts — 40 watts more than its predecessor.
NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti features GB203 with 8960 CUDA cores and 16 GB of GDDR7 memory. NVIDIA also announced the video card RTX 5070, which it called “twice as fast as RTX 4070”. According to the company, it achieved “RTX 4090 performance” in artificial intelligence tasks for a third of the price of the latest model. The youngest of the presented video cards will have 12 GB of memory and a throughput of 572 GB/s. Its chip GB205 contains 6144 CUDA cores.
The new video processors are manufactured using TSMC’s 4NP process. NVIDIA RTX 5090 and 5080 will be released on January 30, while both RTX 5070 models will appear in February. Blackwell video cards will exclusively get DLSS 4.
Sources: VideoCardz, Tom`s Hardware
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