The RTX 5090 costs $1,999. The RTX 5080 is $999, the RTX 5070 Ti $749, and the RTX 5070 $549. Nvidia put those numbers on its GeForce RTX 50 series at CES in Las Vegas, on Jan. 6, 2025, and they drew attention straight away.
The RTX 5080 launches at the same $999 the RTX 4080 Super carried a year earlier, which surprised people who expected a price rise. The RTX 5070 got a louder reaction. CEO Jensen Huang said it could deliver “RTX 4090 performance at $549.” Critics called that false, since the figure leaned on DLSS 4 upscaling and Multi Frame Generation and said nothing of the card’s raw speed.
Dates and partners
The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 reach desktops on Jan. 30. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 arrive in February. Laptops with the RTX 5090, 5080 and 5070 Ti start shipping in March, and RTX 5070 laptops in April, from makers including Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Razer.
Founders Editions of the 5090, 5080 and 5070 are sold at nvidia.com and select retailers. Add-in card makers such as ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, PNY and ZOTAC will sell their own versions.
What the silicon does
“Blackwell, the engine of AI, has arrived for PC gamers, developers and creatives,” Huang said. He called the pairing of neural rendering and ray tracing “the most significant computer graphics innovation since we introduced programmable shading 25 years ago.”
The 5090 holds 92 billion transistors and delivers over 3,352 trillion AI operations per second. Nvidia says that with DLSS 4 it beats the RTX 4090 by up to 2x. DLSS 4 will run in more than 75 games and applications on launch day.
Nvidia also showed ACE, which gives game characters the ability to plan and act like human players. It is being built into PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, inZOI and MIR5.
Real-world supply has been rougher than the launch pitch. The RTX 5090, 5080 and 5070 Ti releases were marked by severe availability problems and prices well above the suggested retail price.
Sources
- NVIDIA Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series Opens New World of AI Computer Graphics
- GeForce RTX 50 series – Wikipedia
