As expected, Nvidia kicked off its CES 2025 keynote on Monday by unveiling the new RTX Blackwell family of GPUs. The centerpiece of the line is the RTX 5090 The card bears a striking resemblance to its predecessor, but now sports, 92 billion transistors, 4,000 AT TOPS, 380 ray-tracing TFLOPS and 1.8 TB/s bandwidth.
The 5090 offered some truly impressive real-time demos in the evening's keynote, featuring deeply detailed graphics with complex textures and full ray tracing.
Nvidia claims that the new premium GPU is capable of performing 2x better than the 4090.
The RTX 5090 runs a whopping $2,000. The RTX 8050, 5070 Ti, and 5070, meanwhile, run $999, $749, and $549, respectively. In fact, there will be laptops powered by the 5070 that cost hundreds less than the standalone 5090.
If you want to pick up a laptop with a top-end Blackwell GPU, it can be found starting at just $3,000.
Laptops featuring the 5090, 5080, and 5070 Ti will be available in early March. The RTX 5070 laptop arrives next month. Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and Razer. All designed notebooks have GPU integrated.
After years of supply chain issues and AI-driven demand growth, CEO Jensen Huang insists that Nvidia is getting out on the manufacturing front this time.
“Blackwell, the engine of AI, has arrived for PC gamers, developers and creatives,” added the executive. “Fusing AI-powered neural rendering and ray tracing, Blackwell is the most significant computer graphics innovation since we introduced programmable shading 25 years ago.”
“We used GeForce to enable AI,” Huang pointed out, “and now AI is revolutionizing GeForce.”