The Consumer Electronics Show – better known as CES – is just around the corner and that means it’s time for Nvidia to lift the lid on its latest and greatest desktop and laptop graphics card lineup. The company held its annual presentation at CES today, bringing the first official details about its RTX 50 series graphics cards, including price, release date and any new features.

Nvidia’s RTX 50 series graphics cards – consisting of the RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 and 5070 Ti models – were introduced during the presentation and promise a significant upgrade over their 40 series counterparts. The new cards are based on Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture, with fifth-generation Tensor cores and fourth-generation RT cores, which Nvidia says will “bring breakthroughs in AI-driven rendering, including neural shaders, digital human technologies, geometry and lighting.” “. .”

“Blackwell, the engine of AI, has arrived for PC gamers, developers and creators,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. “By combining AI-driven neural rendering and ray tracing, Blackwell is the most significant computer graphics innovation since the introduction of programmable shading 25 years ago.”

According to Nvidia, the 5090 is the fastest RTX GPU to date with 92 billion transistors, capable of executing over 3342 trillion AI operations per second. What does that mean exactly? Well, if the numbers are to be believed, the 5090 should offer performance up to twice that of the RTX 4090 before it. The rest of the series looks pretty solid too, with Nvidia claiming that the 5070’s performance should be on par with the 4090, despite the price being much lower.

Part of this performance increase is thanks to DLSS 4, which has a new feature on 50-series cards called Multi Frame Generation. This is an extension of the frame generation seen in DLSS 3 on the 40-series cards and is capable of using AI to generate up to three additional frames per frame rendered, compared to just one frame in previous generations of technology. Combined with an improved Nvidia Reflex 2, this should enable significantly higher frame rates while – hopefully – keeping input latency low. We’ll have to see how this plays out when the cards get into players’ hands.

The release date for the RTX 5090 and 5080 is set for January 30, 2025, while the 5070 and 5070 Ti will be released in February 2025. Laptops with the 5090, 5080 and 5070 Ti will be available from March 2025. Laptops with the regular 5070 will be available in April.

As for pricing, those interested in the top tier will have to pay a whopping $1999 for the RTX 5090, while other cards in the series are significantly cheaper. The RTX 5080 costs $999, the 5070 Ti costs $749, and the 5070 costs $549. Admittedly, these prices are for the reference versions of the cards, so cards from other manufacturers could (and probably will) cost more.

Here are the full specs for the RTX 50 series cards, courtesy of Nvidia: