Nvidia Announces New GeForce RTX 50 Series Graphics Cards

In the midst of CES 2025, Nvidia has revealed its new generation of PC and laptop graphic cards. The RTX 50 series is the quickest lineup of GPUs Nvidia has ever created. The price point is intriguing for consumers, starting at just $549 for the RTX 5070. Nvidia asserts that the 5070 performs on par with the previous generation’s flagship GPU, the RTX 4090, which retailed  at $1,599. Set to debut in February with the RTX 5070, the RTX 5070 Ti will be priced at $749. Becoming available starting January 30th, the RTX 5080 will cost $999 and the RTX 5090 will come in at $1,999. 

The RTX 50 series transitions to GDDR7 video memory, that’s a big upgrade from the GDDR6X utilized in most RTX 40 series cards because it is significantly faster and more power efficient. With G7 memory, Blackwell GPUs can deliver up to 1.8TB/s of memory bandwidth. Besides the horsepower increase, the most significant amid the new features in the RTX 50 series cards is DLSS 4. It expands on Nvidia’s earlier versions of Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS), which are custom-built to improve gaming performance by making certain visual compromises– thus decreasing rendering resolution or using AI to generate frames for a seamless gameplay. As the tech evolves, these compromises are becoming increasingly difficult to detect. Nvidia praises that, to allow games to look high-grade and operate faster, DLSS 4 utilizes AI even more by generating three frames with trained AI for every one rendered on the GPU. Nvidia claims that the effectiveness of its RTX 50 series GPUs is due to their substantial dependence on Tensor AI cores.

The current industry standard GeForce RTX 4090 generates Flux.1[dev] images in 15 seconds using 24GB of VRAM. The GeForce RTX 5090 boasts generations at just over 5 seconds, leveraging its 32GB of VRAM. The RTX 5090 is the closest a consumer can get to the high powered H100 which has 80GB of VRAM, costing around $25,000 per GPU. 

In light of this, consumer hardware will be more than capable to run full sized AI models, making utilization of consumer hardware in distributed networks increasingly valuable. As consumer grade graphics cards continue to increase in power, effectively leveraging them for enterprise systems becomes far more feasible. Gamers and computer aficionados who integrate the new RTX 50 series GPUs into their machines can seek to turn their idle minutes into passive income by joining a distributed network such as DistributeAI. Those with RTX 50 series GPUs are bound to be among top recipients of rewards on such a network.

Read more about the new 50 series GPUs directly from Nvidia.