Recently at CES 2025, NVIDIA unveiled their most advanced GPUs for gamers, creators and developers – the GeForce RTX 50 Series.
Powered by their new NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, fifth gen Tensor cores and fourth-generation RT cores, RTX 50 Series aims to deliver further breakthroughs in gaming performance and AI-driven rendering and lighting.
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA said, “Blackwell the engine of AI, has arrived PC gamers, developers and creatives. Fusing AI-driven neural rendering and ray tracing, Blackwell is the most significant computer graphics innovation since we introduced programmable shading 25 years ago.”
At the high end of the RTX 50 Series is the RTX 5090 GPU, the fastest GeForce RTX GPU to date. It features a whopping 92 billion transistors, which provide 3,352 trillion AI operations per second (TOPS) of computing power. Other architecture advancements with Blackwell and performance boosting DLSS 4 mean that the GeForce RTX 5090 promises to outperform the GeForce RTX 4090 by up to 2X.
In addition to their lineup of discrete desktop graphics cards, Blackwell graphics make their way to laptops. These mobile versions pack in all the same great features as the desktop models, bringing another great performance improvement to mobile computing. Max-Q technology extends battery life by up to 40% and keeps laptops thin and light with sleek designs that don’t sacrifice any performance. These mobile RTX 50 Series graphics will be available in our upcoming Tracer 9 laptops. Stay tuned for further details on our latest generation of Tracer laptops.
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New to RTX 50 Series: DLSS 4
The latest generation of DLSS, DLSS 4, debuts new multi frame generation to boost framerates using AI to generate three frames per rendered frame. Frame generation works alongside the other performance boosting DLSS technologies to increase performance by 8x over traditional rendering – with extra sharp responsiveness thanks to NVIDIA reflex technology.
New to DLSS 4 is also the graphics industry’s first real time application of transformer model architecture. Transformer based DLSS Ray Reconstruction and Super resolution models us more parameters and more compute power that provides greater stability, reduces ghosting, ensure higher details and enhanced anti-aliasing in game scenes.
NVIDIA says that DLSS 4 will be supported on GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards with over 75 games and apps on launch day. As we have seen, DLSS is tremendously popular so expect future game releases to take advantage of DLSS 4’s next gen features.
With NVIDIA Reflex 2, Frame Warp is introduced. This is a new technique to reduce game latency by updating a rendered frame based on the most recent mouse input just before it has been sent to the display. The result is latency reduced by up to 75%. Better responsiveness gives gamers a competitive edge in multiplayer games where every millisecond counts.
NVIDIA Touts Neural Rendering as “Next Era of Computer Graphics”
The first example of NVIDIA using neural rendering was DLSS. It input frames at a lowered resolution in to a neural network, which was trained to then output the full target resolution frame. DLSS has gotten more advanced with each iteration and improvement – as we see with current DLSS that can generate entire frames with improved shadows, lighting, and reflections.
DLSS 4’s multi frame generation is able to multiply frame rates by up to 8X while providing image quality that can be better than native rendering.
Despite all these advancements and performance improvements, NVIDIA says this is just the beginning of neural rendering.
Neural networks have now been integrated inside of programmable shaders – which NVIDIA dubs “neural shaders”. It’s these RTX neural shaders that they say will drive the next decade of graphics innovations (Source).
How can they be used? NVIDIA says they can compress textures by 7X, which would save massive amounts of graphics memory. They could also be used to utilize more advanced lighting techniques in games.
Another innovation using RTX neural rendering is “RTX Neural Faces” – which aims to improve facial quality in games using generative AI.
Blackwell Architecture Improvements
Blackwell is the most powerful consumer GPU ever created with up to 92 billion transistors. Improved streaming and tighter integration with Tensor cores optimizes RTX 50 series GPUs to unleash the performance of neural shaders.
Blackwell features brand new Raytracing cores designed to trace massive amounts of highly detailed geometry.
Blackwell also touts enhanced PCIe Gen5 and DisplayPort 2.1b UHBR20 – allowing for display up to 8K 165Hz.
With GeForce RTX 50 Series Laptops, like our upcoming Tracer 9 Gaming Laptops, improved Max-Q technologies like Advanced Power Gating, Low Latency Sleep, and Accelerated Frequency Switching work in tandem to increase battery life.
Lastly, Blackwell is equipped with blazing fast memory. GDDR7 with speeds of up to 30 Gbps that can deliver up to 1.8TB of memory bandwidth.
GeForce RTX 50 Series Graphics Cards – When are they Available?
The GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080 will be available for sale on January 30th.
The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and GeForce RTX 5070 arrive later, starting in February.
Stay tuned for specific sale details as we get closer to launching these new graphics cards in our gaming desktops. As usual they will be available in both our custom built and prebuilt gaming PCs.
The RTX 5090 is touted by NVIDIA as 2X faster than the GeForce RTX 4090, so a new king of GPUs is on the way.
The RTX 5080 is twice as fast as the RTX 4080 thanks to new Blackwell architecture and the performance boosting power of DLSS 4.
The RTX 5070 Ti is 2X faster than the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti.
The RTX 5070 is 2X as fast as the RTX 4070.
For laptops graphics, the mobile versions of the RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 Ti will be available in our Tracer 9 Laptops starting in March. RTX 5070 laptops will be available later in April. Stay tuned for more announcements about our RTX 50 Series powered gaming laptops.
With new and improved performance versus previous generation GPUs, improved laptop battery life, and a whole suite of neural rendering techniques that boost performance and visual quality – we are so excited to get to work building gaming desktops and laptops with GeForce RTX 50 Series products.
As we move closer towards the official launch date’s of the NVIDIA RTX 50 Series graphics cards, stay tuned for sales information from us specifying exactly when our systems featuring the new GPUs are available! Head to our website to see currently available gaming PCs.