As anticipated, Nvidia Monday kicked off its CES 2025 keynote by unveiling the new RTX Blackwell family of GPUs. The centerpiece of the line is the RTX 5090. The card bears a striking resemblance to its predecessor, but now sports, 92 billion transistors, 4,000 AT TOPS, 380 ray-tracing TFLOPS, and 1.8 TB/s bandwidth.
The 5090 offered up some truly impressive real-time demos at the evening’s keynote, featuring deeply detailed graphics with complex textures and full ray tracing. CEO Jensen Huang called the line, “the most significant computer graphics innovation since we introduced programmable shading 25 years ago.”
The RTX 5090 runs a whopping $2,000. The RTX 8050, 5070 Ti, and 5070, meanwhile, run $999, $749, and $549, respectively. Indeed, there will be laptops running the 5070 that will cost hundreds less than the standalone 5090.
If you want to pick up a laptop with the top end Blackwell GPU, meanwhile, that will be available starting at just under $3,000.
After years of supply chain issues and increased AI driven demand, Huang insists that the Nvidia is getting out in front of the manufacturing this time out. The CEO noted that “Blackwell is in full production,” adding that the GPUs are set to go on sale later in January.
“We used GeForce to enable AI,” Huang noted, “and now AI is revolutionizing GeForce.”
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