GEFORCE RTX 50: Everything you need to know about Nvidia's new graphics card

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Recently, NVIDIA hosted a highly anticipated event where it unveiled its new generation of graphics cards, the RTX 5000 series. This event attracted the attention of technology enthusiasts and gamers around the world, promising profound innovations in performance and efficiency.

The event was broadcast live on January 6, 2025 and was attended by NVIDIA executives, who addressed the new cards with enthusiasm. During the presentation, the technological innovations that the 5000 series provides were discussed, including significant improvements in graphics performance and energy efficiency.

RTX 5090: the power of the new generation

The most powerful graphics card in the 50 series. At the event, the RTX 5090 was a highlight because it is possibly the best graphics card on the current market, making its rival, AMD Redeon branded graphics cards, stay behind.

The announced card is aimed at gamers who seek the true power that games can provide and it is no surprise that it was announced for a price of 2,000 dollars. Below are the board specifications:

Source: Nvidia Website/RTX 5090 Performance

DLSS is an exclusive feature of Nvidia graphics cards that uses deep learning to render the latest generation graphics and at the same time deliver performance that reduces the loss of frames per second (FPS) and is not demanding so much on the hardware. of your computer. DLSS 4.0 is the new technology that is present in the new cards and received a lot of attention during the event due to the high amount of FPS that its preview showed. In the Cyberpunk 2077 game, Nvidia's new feature showed an incredible increase in FPS, going from 26 FPS to 235 FPS, a very considerable increase.

NVIDIA CUDA cores: 21,760

Tensor Cores (IA): 3,352 AI TOPS 5th Generation

Ray Tracing Cores: 318 TFLOPS 4th Generation

Clock Boost: 2.41 GHz

Base Clock: 2.01 GHz

Standard Memory Configuration: 32GB GDDR7

Memory Bus Width: 512 bits

NVIDIA Architecture: Blackwell

Technologies that are supported: DLSS 4, Super Resolution, DLAA, Ray Reconstruction, Frame Generation, Multi Frame Generation, Reflex 2, PCI Express Gen 5, Resizable BAR, RTX Remix, among others.

Maximum Digital Resolution: 4K at 480 Hz or 8K at 120 Hz (with DSC - Display Stream Compression)

Standard Video Connectors: 3x DisplayPort and 1x HDMI

Multiple Monitor Support: Up to 4 simultaneous monitors

Length: 30.4 cm

Width: 13.7 cm

Thickness: 2 slots

 Here's a preview video of the new DLSS being tested in Cyberpunk 2077:

RTX 5080: great improvement compared to its predecessor

The RTX 5080 is a big leap compared to the RTX 4080. However, the memory configuration of this new card has the same amount as its predecessor, being 16 GB, but being a GDDR7 instead of GDDR6X. The advertised price abroad would be US$999. Below are the specifications comparing the two cards:

Source: Nvidia website/RTX 5080 card specifications

RTX 5070: Same or better performance than the 4090?

And finally, the RTX 5070. This card attracted a lot of attention at the event because it was supposedly better than the 4090, even though the announced price was lower than the last card in the 40 series family. The announced price was US$549, which was more cheaper than a 4090 which is in the range of 1,599 dollars on the Nvidia website.

But is it really better or equal to the RTX 4090? According to the Nvidia website, the 5070 graphics card presents a large increase compared to the RTX 4070, reaching double when DLSS is activated together with Full RT. Below are the specifications of the RTX 5070 compared to the 4090:

The specification card that Nvidia provides shows that the RTX 5070 features a higher DLSS, Tensor Cores, Ray Tracing Cores, NVENC and NVDEC compared to the 4090. However, the new graphics card loses in AI Tops, Memory Configuration and the Memory Bandwidth.

The RTX 5070 Ti, on the other hand, presents a configuration that surpasses most of the 4090's specifications, losing only in memory space and bandwidth. The Ti version was only presented in the 5070 and cost US$749, two hundred dollars more than its basic version. Seeing this data, We were able to conclude that the specifications of the cards, according to the Nvidia website, are superior in several aspects compared to the last card in the 40 series, which could mean that the RTX 4090 may depreciate over time due to being inferior. in several aspects compared to new generation cards.

Source: Nvidia website/RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti card specifications

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