The true performance of the GeForce RTX 5090, NVIDIA's latest flagship GPU based on the "Blackwell" architecture, will be fully revealed a couple of days before its official release, on January 24, while the performance of the GeForce RTX 5080,

Learn what makes the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series tick in our RTX Blackwell graphics arcitecture deep dive.

The new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 looks very expensive and very good, but the RTX 5070 Ti is what really catches my eye.

Not only does the VRAM jump up from 24GB to 32GB in the RTX 5090, but it gets a lot faster too with GDDR7 memory. You’re getting both more of it and a faster speed at 32 Gbps.

Nvidia improves DLSS for RTX 40 and 50 series to boost performance and reduce VRAM usage. Users with RTX 40 series GPUs benefit from the DLSS update despite RTX 50 series launch. Nvidia's ongoing DLSS development benefits gamers with RTX 40 series cards,

Nvidia says the RTX 5090 is “2X Faster Than The GeForce RTX 4090;” the RTX 5080 is “Twice As Fast As The GeForce RTX 4080;” the RTX 5070 is “2X Faster Than The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti;” and the RTX 5070 is as fast as the RTX 4090.

The new GeForce RTX 5090 is the top of the line and the star of the show (so much so that it actually leaked just hours before it was officially unveiled), but Nvidia is actually launching four new 50-series GPUs at CES 2025, with the desktop models starting to ship this month and laptop versions arriving in March.

Nvidia is planning to have reviews of the GeForce RTX 5090 launch a week ahead of the flagship GPU’s release date. That’s according to Videocardz, which points out that the release dates for the RTX 5090 and 5080 shifted slightly in the lead-up to CES 2025 as Nvidia’s add-in board (AIB) partners prepared their models for release.