NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series
A new generation of GeForce RTX™ video cards, powered by NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPU architecture, brings the latest in ray tracing, video editing, and AI to gamers and creators.
GeForce RTX 50 Series Powered by NVIDIA Blackwell
At CES 2025, NVIDIA’s founder, Jensen Huang, announced their upcoming consumer video card line: the GeForce RTX™ 50 Series. Four models are included in this initial roll-out, with the top two (RTX 5090 & 5080) slated for release later in January and the other two (RTX 5070 Ti & 5070) following in February.
Some core technologies in this generation are standard fare, like PCI-Express 5.0, resizable BAR, and support for DirectX 12, Vulkan, and OpenGL. There are a number of substantial improvements over the previous RTX 40 Series as well, though:
- Support for CUDA 12.8
- New 4th gen ray tracing (RT) cores and 5th gen Tensor cores
- GDDR7 memory – with higher VRAM capacities at each tier (32 GB on the RTX 5090 vs 24 GB on the RTX 4090, for example)
- DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation
- Upgraded 9th gen NVIDIA encoders (NVENC) and 6th gen decoders (NVDEC) with support for 4:2:2 chroma subsampling
- Smaller physical dimensions for the RTX 5090 Founders Edition compared to the RTX 4090 FE
That last one is less about performance and more about fitting the RTX 5090 in small form factor cases or potentially multiple cards in a larger tower. It is also a pleasant surprise since the RTX 4090 and 3090 had both been massive triple-width cards. Please note that this size reduction is specific to NVIDIA’s own Founders Edition model, so other OEMs may still manufacture larger cards.
While we are focusing on NVIDIA’s desktop video cards here, they will be followed by similarly branded laptop video cards later in the year. As usual, though, the model numbers for desktop and mobile GPUs may be similar but the underlying specs and performance for laptop variants are lower. For example, the GeForce RTX 5090 mobile has a CUDA core count, tensor core TOPS rating, and memory bus width on par with the desktop-class RTX 5080 rather than the 5090.
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series Specs
| GeForce RTX 50 Series | RTX 5090 | RTX 5080 | RTX 5070 Ti | RTX 5070 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CUDA Cores | 21760 | 10752 | 8960 | 6144 |
| 5th Gen Tensor Core TOPS | 3352 | 1801 | 1406 | 988 |
| 4th Gen RT Core TFLOPS | 318 | 171 | 133 | 94 |
| Boost Clock | 2.41 GHz | 2.62 GHz | 2.45 GHz | 2.51 GHz |
| Base Clock | 2.01 GHz | 2.30 GHz | 2.30 GHz | 2.16 GHz |
| Memory Capacity (GDDR7) | 32 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Interface | 512-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 1792 GB/s | 960 GB/s | 896 GB/s | 672 GB/s |
| 9th Gen NVIDIA Encoders | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 6th Gen NVIDIA Decoders | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Total Graphcs Power | 575 W | 360 W | 300 W | 250 W |
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