Part of me thought the rumors about Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs were wrong. But the RTX 5090 is just as insane as everyone said it would be. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage at CES 2025 to officially kick off the show, announcing the RTX 5090, which clocks in at a staggering $2,000.
The monstrous graphics card has been the topic of rumors and speculation for well over a year, as the entire range of Blackwell GPUs seemed to slipped out of a release late last year, as rumors up to that point had suggested. The RTX 5090 marks a $400 increase over the RTX 4090 we saw in the previous generation.
However, Nvidia lowered prices down the stack. The RTX 5080 clocks in at the same price as the RTX 4080 Super, while both the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 are $50 less than their last-gen counterparts. Nvidia says that the RTX 5070 provides performance on the level of an RTX 4090, which Huang attributed to the new GDDR7 memory, which will be available in all four GPUs.
Nvidia says that the GPUs will be available starting in January, though Huang didn’t say how the graphics cards would roll out.
Huang showed off a new design for Nvidia’s Founder’s Edition cards, as well. Unlike the past two generations, the RTX 50-series design comes with two fans on one side of the graphics card, along with rounded corners and an angled 16-pin power connector.
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