NVIDIA unveils next-gen graphics cards for gamers, developers
GeForce RTX 50 Series — RTX 5090, RTX 5080 — delivers breakthroughs in AI-driven rendering, including neural shaders, digital human technologies, geometry and lighting
Hyderabad: NVIDIA has unveiled the most advanced consumer graphics processing unit (GPUs) — the GeForce RTX 50 Series Desktop and Laptop GPUs — for gamers, creators and developers.
Powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, fifth-generationTensor Cores and fourth-generation RT Cores, the GeForce RTX 50 Series delivers breakthroughs in AI-driven rendering, including neural shaders, digital human technologies, geometry and lighting, according to a company release.
“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.”
The GeForce RTX 5090 GPU — the fastest GeForce RTX GPU to date — features 92 billion transistors, providing over 3,352 trillion AI operations per second (TOPS) of computing power. Blackwell architecture innovations and DLSS 4 mean the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU outperforms the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU by up to 2 times.
GeForce Blackwell comes to laptops with all the features of desktop models, bringing a considerable upgrade to portable computing, including extraordinary graphics capabilities and remarkable efficiency. The Blackwell generation of NVIDIA Max-Q technology extends battery life by up to 40%, and includes thin and light laptops that maintain their sleek design without sacrificing power or performance.
Blackwell Brings AI to Shaders
Twenty-five years ago, NVIDIA introduced GeForce 3 and programmable shaders, which set the stage for two decades of graphics innovation, from pixel shading to compute shading to real-time ray tracing.
Alongside GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, NVIDIA is introducing RTX Neural Shaders, which brings small AI networks into programmable shaders, unlocking film-quality materials, lighting and more in real-time games.
Rendering game characters is one of the most challenging tasks in real-time graphics, as people are prone to notice the smallest errors or artifacts in digital humans. RTX Neural Faces takes a simple rasterised face and 3D pose data as input, and uses generative AI to render a temporally stable, high-quality digital face in real time, it said.
Availability
GeForce RTX 5090 GPU and the GeForce RTX 5080 GPU will be available on Jan 30 at $1,999 and $999, respectively.
The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU and GeForce RTX 5070 GPU will be available starting in February at $749 and $549, respectively.
The NVIDIA Founders Editions of the GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 GPUs will be available directly from nvidia.com and select retailers worldwide.
