The true performance of the GeForce RTX 5090, NVIDIA's latest flagship GPU based on the "Blackwell" architecture, will be fully revealed a couple of days before its official release, on January 24, while the performance of the GeForce RTX 5080,

Not only does the VRAM jump up from 24GB to 32GB in the RTX 5090, but it gets a lot faster too with GDDR7 memory. You’re getting both more of it and a faster speed at 32 Gbps.

Nvidia has made the GeForce RTX 5090 official during its CES 2025 keynote, and the next-gen graphics card will arrive on January 30 for $1,999. Naturally, it'll also be joined by sibling models like the RTX 5080 and RTX 5070, and while the latter would suit my personal budget, I know you're all waiting to hear more about the new GPU monarch.

The new GeForce RTX 5090 is the top of the line and the star of the show (so much so that it actually leaked just hours before it was officially unveiled), but Nvidia is actually launching four new 50-series GPUs at CES 2025, with the desktop models starting to ship this month and laptop versions arriving in March.

Nvidia improves DLSS for RTX 40 and 50 series to boost performance and reduce VRAM usage. Users with RTX 40 series GPUs benefit from the DLSS update despite RTX 50 series launch. Nvidia's ongoing DLSS development benefits gamers with RTX 40 series cards,

Nvidia is planning to have reviews of the GeForce RTX 5090 launch a week ahead of the flagship GPU’s release date. That’s according to Videocardz, which points out that the release dates for the RTX 5090 and 5080 shifted slightly in the lead-up to CES 2025 as Nvidia’s add-in board (AIB) partners prepared their models for release.