NVIDIA Announces “Game Changer” GeForce RTX 5000 series GPUs

As we knew they would, NVIDIA has announced their generational update — the RTX 5000 series GPUs for both laptops and desktops during CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote speech at CES.  Specifically, the company is showcasing the RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, and 5070, as well as their performance improvements.  These new cards are bringing a whole stack of new technologies including new Fifth-Gen Tensor cores, a new streaming multiprocessor for neural shaders, 4th-Gen Ray Tracing cores, multi-frame AI-enhanced frame generation with DLSS 4, an update to their responsiveness tech with NVIDIA Reflex 2, neural rendering, and a whole lot more.   It’s always a massive leap between generations, and this one is no exception.  How much of a leap?  Well, based on the stats shown, an RTX 5070 is capable of blowing the doors off of the previous flagship RTX 4090.  In fact, team green is claiming a staggering 2X improvement in Black Myth Wukong, with similar improvements for Cyberpunk 2077 and Alan Wake 2.  It’s not all just “1X and 2X” talk either, they also gave us a brief look at some of these games in motion running the new hardware and DLSS 4.

In this first video we see Cyberpunk 2077 running native at 4K with maximum detail, barely able to squeak out 28fps with DLSS disabled.  With DLSS 4, that number jumps to an eye-watering 242 fps with RT enabled.  See for yourself!

The team also gave us our first look at Reflex 2 with Frame Warp, along with a short video to agains demonstrate the new tech (though latency is always a tricky one to showcase without feeling it for yourself).  If you’re unfamiliar with the previous or this new tech, Reflex links up the graphical pipeline of the card with mouse input, synchronizing them to try to reduce latency.  We won’t get our first look at Frame Warp (or really know what it is) yet as it’s marked as “coming soon”, but I’ll let the video speak for itself:

If you’re curious where your current card lines up against the RTX 5000 series, you can find a dropdown to go line by line right here at the official announcement.  Here’s a brief overview to get you rolling:

The question that always hits hardest is cost, and these are gonna set you back a bit.  The GeForce RTX 5090’s retail launch price $1,999, the RTX 5080 at $999, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti at $749, and then finally the GeForce RTX 5070 coming in at $549.  Given that the rumored prices were far, far higher than that, it’s a relief to see such reasonable pricing, given the inarable impact tariffs are having on our economy thanks to a whole group of folks who have no idea how tariffs work being voted into office.   We’re also starting to see some pricing around laptops, with an RTX 5070-equipped laptop coming in at $1299 already.  At the top end we see 5090 laptops at $2899, 5080s at $2199, 5070 Tis at $1599, to round things out.

DLSS 4 is also coming to over 200 games at launch, and we’ve already got at least our first glimpse at what that’ll look like in terms of performance gains.  The multi-frame acceleration is, unsurprisingly, exclusive to the 5000 series cards, but with anywhere between a 5.6X and 8X improvement to framerate, it’s kinda hard to argue.

You know those 400+ Hz monitors we all laughed at?  Well…guess the joke’s over — we’ve got hardware to drive it now.  How does it work?  Well, we don’t have to look far for an extremely thorough explanation:

We’re gonna have a LOT more to say about these cards and the technology behind them very shortly, so stay tuned — it’s about to get technical.

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