Nvidia Geforce RTX 50 Series Graphics Cards: Price, Specs, and Everything Else,

Nvidia has announced its latest generation of Geforce RTX graphics cards, based on its Blackwell architecture of GPUs. The RTX 50 series is launching at the end of January, with four tiers of cards announced at the event. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also announced other additions to the company's products like Geforce NOW coming to Steam Deck, Nvidia Broadcast app updates, and more during the presentation.

You can check out our high-level breakdown of Nvidia's CES announcements, but if you're here just to know how each new GPU stacks up, keep on reading.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 50 GPUs: specs explained

The RTX 50 series is based on the Blackwell architecture, utilizing ninth-generation NVENC encoders, fifth-generation Tensor cores, and fourth-generation ray tracing cores. Nvidia announced four graphics cards at the event: RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070.

vidia's highest-tier consumer-level graphics card is the RTX 5090, which is claimed to be twice as fast in AI-enhanced gaming performance as the RTX 4090. With 3352 AI TOPS and 21760 CUDA cores, the RTX 5090 is a formidable GPU, sipping up 575W of total graphics power. That's what packing 92 billion transistors performing over 3342 trillion AI operations per second will do.

The RTX 5070, the lowest-tier card announced at CES, has 988 AI TOPS and 6144 CUDA cores. Compared to the previous generation RTX 4070, the 5070 has more than twice the TOPS, resulting in much faster performance in AI applications.

	RTX 5090	RTX 5080	RTX 5070 Ti	RTX 5070
AI TOPS	3352	1801	1406	988
CUDA Cores	21760	10752	8960	6144
NVENC	3x 9th Gen	2x 9th Gen	2x 9th Gen	1x 9th Gen
NVDEC	2x 6th Gen	2x 6th Gen	1x 6th Gen	1x 6th Gen
Memory	32 GB GDDR7	16 GB GDDR7	16 GB GDDR7	12 GB GDDR7
Memory bandwidth	1792 GB/sec	960 GB/sec	896 GB/sec	672 GB/sec
Total Graphics Power	575W	360W	300W	250W

"Blackwell, the engine of AI, has arrived for PC gamers, developers and creatives," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "Fusing AI-driven neural rendering and ray tracing, Blackwell is the most significant computer graphics innovation since we introduced programmable shading 25 years ago."