The RTX 50-series of GPUs were announced early this month, at CES 2025. And now, we have performance specs that, while they’re good, they are nothing like what NVIDIA promised us. The 50-series, or what was announced, began with the RTX 5070, and then the 5070 Ti, the 5080, and 5090. Interestingly, they only revealed the higher-end cards, excluding the 5050 and 5060 cards.
The 5090 is the highest-end card of the lineup, with the “best” specs and best features. it comes with the new “Blackwell” GPU architecture, compared to the last gen’s “Ada Lovelace” architecture. It comes equipped with 32 GB of GDDR7 VRAM, an improvement over the 4090’s 24 GB GDDR6X. NVIDIA has claimed that the 5090 can double the 4090’s performance, but most reviewers have disagreed, finding it has a roughly 20-30% performance boost, and that scales with the new price of the 5090, starting at $1,999 compared to the $1,599 price of the previous card.
Moving on to slightly less budget-breaking cards, the 5080 is much closer to its older counterpart, the 4080, than the 5090 is to the 4090. it has the same amount of VRAM, 16 GB, but it has faster memory, with it also being upgraded to GDDR7. It also has upgraded bandwidth, being about 30% faster. Along with the improved performance, it also has an improved price, starting at $999, instead of the $1,199 of the 4080.
The 5070 Ti is cheaper yet than the 5080, but has close specs to it. The 5070 Ti has 16 GBs of GDDR7 VRAM, 4 GB more than the 4070 Ti. It also has more bandwidth than its 40-series counterpart, with roughly 45% more bandwidth. Along with the better specs, it has a lower price, from $799 on the 4070 Ti to $749 for the 5070 Ti.
The final and cheapest card released this month is the 5070, and is both cheaper and better than its predecessor, the 4070. While it does not have more memory than the 4070, it does have the faster GDDR7 generation of VRAM, improving performance. It also has more bandwidth, roughly 25% to be precise. Along with these performance improvements, it is also cheaper, from $599 on the 4070 to $549 for the 5070.
Along with all of the improvements listed, there are also across-the-board improvements, such as next-gen Ray Tracing cores, Tensor cores, and other hardware improvements. On the software side, the 50-series gains several new improvements, such as DLSS 4, AI Neural Shading, and next-gen frame generation. NVIDIA also seems to have (mostly) learned how to price things, so it is easier to afford their GPUs!
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https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/50-series/
https://wccftech.com/getting-nvidia-rtx-50-series-gpus-at-msrp-would-be-a-surprise/
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