As expected, Nvidia on Monday kicked off its CES 2025 keynote by unveiling the new RTX Blackwell family of GPUs. The centerpiece of the lineup is the RTX 5090. The card bears a striking resemblance to its predecessor, but now sports 92 billion transistors, 4000 AT TOPS, 380 TFLOPS of ray tracing, and 1.8 TB/s bandwidth.
The 5090 delivered some truly impressive real-time demos at the evening’s keynote, featuring deeply detailed graphics with complex textures and full ray tracing.
Nvidia claims the new premium GPU is able to outperform the 4090 by up to 2x.
The RTX 5090 costs $2000. Meanwhile, the RTX 8050, 5070 Ti, and 5070 cost $999, $749, and $549, respectively. Indeed, there will be laptops using the 5070 that will cost hundreds less than the standalone 5090.
The company adds that the 50 series, “brings advances in AI-driven rendering, including neural shaders, digital human technologies, geometry and lighting.”
If you want to get a laptop with the latest Blackwell GPU, meanwhile, it will be available starting at just under $3,000.
The 5090, 5080 and 5070 Ti laptops will be available starting in March. RTX 5070 laptops arrive next month. Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI and Razer. You have all the laptops designed with GPU.
After years of supply chain issues and AI-driven demand growth, CEO Jensen Huang insists Nvidia will get ahead of production this time.
“Blackwell, the AI engine, has arrived for PC gamers, developers and creators,” adds the executive. “Bringing together AI-driven neural rendering and ray tracing, Blackwell is the most important computer graphics innovation since we introduced programmable shading 25 years ago.”
“We used GeForce to enable AI,” Huang noted casually, “and now AI is revolutionizing GeForce.”
