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Nvidia finally has he drew the curtain their next series of graphics cards. If you have somehow avoided the mountain of rumors and leaks about Nvidia powerful, humongousand power-hungry RTX 50-series GPUs, which are all that and more.
The new Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series includes all the usual suspects, although we will see the most powerful cards first. The RTX 5070, 5070 Ti, 5080, and the top-of-the-line 5090 are all present and accounted for. It is the first time that Nvidia has decided to release a “titanium” edition card alongside the main card, although there is nothing wrong with having more options on the front.
They are also the most expensive cards the company has ever produced. The RTX 4090 will sell for $1,600. To make the point, the company also said that the RTX 5070 will go for $ 550. The RTX 5070 will cost you $ 750 and the 5080 will be $ 1,000.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang came on stage at the Michelob Ultra arena in the Mandalay Bay casino and first asked the crowd “do you like my jacket?” He has a reason to act like a celebrity. The company’s AI training chips have made it one of the most profitable in the world. AI was the main theme behind his entire presentation. It was one of the big reasons that the new specifications of RTX video cards seemed so extravagant.
He also stated that people who get an RTX 5070, even in a laptop, can expect performance equivalent to the RTX 4090. A big part of this, he said, is because of the company’s Tensor cores and it’s AI that support paper performance. .
“GeForce brought AI to the masses,” he said. “Now we’re bringing AI to GeForce.”
The flagship Blackwell cards will have 380 RT TFLOPS and 125 shader TFLOPS plus a memory bandwidth of 1.8 TB/s. We’ll have more word on the exact numbers of CUDA cores and VRAM soon, but it’s safe to say that the RTX 5090 is 50% more card than Nvidia’s previous massive and ultra-powerful GPU, the RTX 4090.
Adding to all that is a new AI software suite upscaled in DLSS 4. This now includes updated ray reconstruction and super resolution models aided by AI transformer models.
You have to have a big case and big bags to even think about sticking an RTX 5090 in your case. Meanwhile, the RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 offer a power beyond their counterparts from two years ago.
The new Blackwell cards should arrive in the next few weeks. What did not catch the air was the mention of more budget cards. We need to wait a few months for the RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 Ti to appear.
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