NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang officially unveils the GeForce RTX 50 series at CES 2025 keynote
The US$549 GeForce RTX 5070 will be equivalent to the RTX 4090 in performance. Wut?
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Note: This article has been updated with local pricing (Singapore).
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NVIDIA has officially announced its highly anticipated GeForce RTX 50 series at CES 2025.
During his keynote, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang showed off a surprisingly slimmer GeForce RTX 5090 (compared to the current GeForce RTX 4090). Apart from key specifications, Jensen also revealed that the US$549 GeForce RTX 5070 will have similar performance to the GeForce RTX 4090. That's an incredible claim, but we'll withhold our judgment until we get our hands on sample cards to benchmark.
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The current stack of RTX 50 series that will be launched this month not only includes the above-mentioned RTX 5090 and RTX 5070, but also the RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti. Interestingly, generationally all of the RTX 50 series cards have a lower launch price compared to their RTX 40 series equivalent. The GeForce RTX 4070 for instance, launched at US$599 and the GeForce RTX 4080 at US$1,199.
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Jensen did not stopped there, as he also revealed the GeForce RTX 50 series Laptop GPU versions, with equivalent performances as the desktop cards to be expected for each stack.
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NVIDIA's CEO also claims that Blackwell architecture’s (which the GeForce RTX 50 series is built upon) innovations and DLSS 4 mean the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU outperforms the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU up to 2x. Meanwhile, here are the local pricings from NVIDIA Singapore's website:
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070: Starting at S$910
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti: Starting at S$1,250
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080: Starting at S$1,660
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090: Starting at S$3,320
It's important to note that the above base pricing are for NVIDIA Founders Edition, and cards from AIB partners like ASUS ROG and Gigabyte are almost guaranteed to cost more.
There are a lot more details to unpacked over the next few days, so stay tuned here.
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