It has been a couple of years since NVIDIA first revealed its 40 series graphics cards, and details of the successors have been trickling through onto the internet over th past year. Now, the GeForce RTX 50 series cards are finally official, and with them the tech that they bring with them, including DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation.
As part of the company’s CES 2025 keynote, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang revealed the GeForce RTX 50 series cards, but the GPU that they use are not exactly new. In fact, the Blackwell architecture used was first unveiled almost a whole year ago, built using a custom 4NP TSMC process. In terms of specs, one of the few things revealed – or rather, confirmed – is that the GPU runs GDDR7 memory and PCIe 5 as well as supporting DisplayPort 2.1b for displays up to 8K and 165Hz.
In terms of raw performance, NVIDIA claims that the GeForce RTX 50 series is twice as good as their RTX 40 counterparts. In other words, you can expect the RTX 5090 to be twice as fast as the RTX 4090, the RTX 5080 to be twice as fast as the RTX 4080, and so on. In fact, the company claims that the RTX 5070 can match the performance of the RTX 4090. All this is claimed to be made possible with AI, rather than pure rasterisation performance.
Speaking of AI, that’s where DLSS 4 and its Multi Frame Generation come in. The long and short of it is, the tech now pushes up to three generated frames per traditionally rendered frame. Up to 75 games will support the tech once the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series cards launch, while also benefitting from reduced VRAM usage.
Moving on to individual cards, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 spec sheet includes 32GB of GDDR7 with a bandwidth of 1,792 GB/s, and 21,760 CUDA cores. The company is pricing this at RM10,390 to start. Next in line is the RTX 5080, with 16GB of GDDR7 with 960GB/s bandwidth, 10,752 CUDA cores, and an asking price that starts from RM5,190.
Then there’s the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 and its Ti variant. The former gets 6,144 CUDA cores, 12GB of GDDR7 at 672 GB/s bandwidth, while the latter has 8,960 CUDA Cores, 16GB of GDDR7 at 896GB/s bandwidth. The company says that they have starting prices of RM2,850 and RM3,890 respectively.
For the graphics cards, the company says that they will be available starting later this month. As for laptops featuring the whole range of RTX 50 series GPU, these will be available starting March.
(Source: NVIDIA [1], [2], [3])
