Nvidia Unveils RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs: A $2000 Flagship and DLSS 4's Ambitious Claims

Nvidia launched its highly anticipated GeForce RTX 50 series at CES 2025, featuring the new Blackwell architecture and DLSS 4. The lineup includes the $2000 RTX 5090, $1000 RTX 5080, $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and $549 RTX 5070. While Nvidia boasts impressive performance claims – notably the RTX 5070 allegedly matching the RTX 4090 with DLSS 4 – real-world benchmarks are needed. The cards feature increased CUDA cores, memory bandwidth, and VRAM, but also significantly higher power consumption. DLSS 4's multi-frame generation raises questions about latency and image quality. Overall, the RTX 50 series shows decent performance improvements and value, although the gap between the top-tier and others is vast, and the RTX 5070's 12GB VRAM might prove limiting.