By NVIDIA has officially announced its RTX 50-series GPUs with four of them on the way.
The next-generation RTX Blackwell GPUs range from the RTX 5090 at an eye-watering $1,999 U.S. dollars followed by the RTX 5080 at $999, RTX 5070 Ti at $749 and RTX 5070 at $549. The 5090 and 5080 are available from January 30th.
The selling point of these cards is AI, and more specifically their use of neural networks integrated into rendering technologies as part of the new DLSS 4 to improve performance by a big margin.
Nvidia’s new RTX Neural Shaders replace traditional shaders and can be used to compress textures in games up to 7x – thus saving massive amounts of graphics memory. RTX Neural Faces improves face quality using generative AI. DLSS 4 also moves over to transformer AI modelsthat improve image quality, reduce ghosting, and add higher detail in motion.
There’s also Multi Frame Generation, generating up to three additional frames per traditional frame and they claim can multiply frame rates by up to 8x over traditional rendering.
A 5090 offers more than twice the performance of the prior generation 4090 on some of the more demanding titles out there including “Alan Wake 2” and “Cyberpunk 2077”. If the 3090 was all about 4K/60fps and the 4090 about 4K/120fps, the 5090 is going for 4K/240fps.
This was demonstrated in a clip showing off “Cyberpunk 2077” running without any upscaling and with full ray tracing enabled at 27 fps. With DLSS 2 it was 70 fps, DLS 3.5 it was 142 fps, and with the new DLSS 4 it was 243 fps.
All RTX 50-series cards have GDDR7 memory and are PCIe Gen 5 with DisplayPort 2.1b connectors for 8K/165Hz capacity and HDMI 2.1b connectors.
The RTX 5090 has 32GB of VRAM, a memory bandwidth of 1,792GB/sec, 21,760 CUDA cores, and requires up to 575 watts of power. The RTX 5080 has 16GB of VRAAM, 960GB/sec memory bandwidth, 10,752 CUDA cores and a 360 watts power draw.
Source: The Verge
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