RTX 5090, 5080, and 5070 series GPUs: Everything you need to know

At CES 2025, Jensen took to the stage and announced that he got a new jacket. And also the 50 Series of RTX GPUs.

Now that the 50 Series release dates, tech specs, power requirements, and pricing are confirmed, we’re going to wrap it all up here so you can find out everything you need to know about the RTX 50 Series GPUs.

You can take a look at our dedicated 50-Series webstore page to see how CORSAIR is ready to help you power, house, and cable manage the newest GPUs from NVIDIA. For now though, let's take a look at the 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, and 5070.

Those are the hard and fast tech specs, head over to NVIDIA's website if you want to see all of the software, encoding, and driver-type information.

The power requirements of the 50 Series GPUs turned out to be a little relieving. Many thought the 5090 would absolutely max out the 600W capacity of the 12V2x6 / 12VHPWR standard. Instead, it came in a little lower than that. Find below the TGP/TDP of the 50-Series GPUs, and NVIDIA’s recommended PSU wattages.

Another rumor that thankfully failed to materialise was the speculation about multiple 12V2x6 connections. So, to be clear The 50 Series only needs a single 12V2x6 / 12VHPWR cable. You can learn more about how to power the 50 Series cards with CORSAIR PSUs in our guide.

Our PSU calculator has been updated with the 50-Series GPUs and AMD's new X3D CPUs, too. So if you're planning a new build, let the calculator figure out the right CORSAIR PSU for you.

The all-new 2025 RMe Series of PSUs are great options here. They have the latest 12V2x6 native connection, and include a color-coded cable so you can be sure it's securely seated.

If you're looking for more detailed power-related content, we have a lot of resources for you, peruse the links below at your leisure.

• CORSAIR Power Supplies: Everything You Need to Know
• Native 12V-2x6 vs 8-pin to 12V-2x6 – what is the difference?
• Will my 12VHPWR cable work with 12V-2x6?
• Which CORSAIR PSUs have a 12V-2x6 Connector?
• Which CORSAIR PSUs are Compatible with PCIe 5.0?
• Best PSU for RTX 5090
• Best PSU for RTX 5080
• Best PSU for RTX 5070

In addition to a comprehensive crop of specs, we also have some release dates. At time of writing, however, we only have “February” for the 5070 and 5070 Ti.

• RTX 5090 Release date: Jan 30th 2025
• RTX 5080 Release date: Jan 30th 2025
• RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti Release date: February. (Date TBC).

The prices of the RTX 50 Series turned out to be lower than some feared, which is always a nice surprise.

• RTX 5090 Price: $1,999 / €2329 / £1,939
• RTX 5080 Price: $999 / €1169 / £979
• RTX 5070 Ti Price: $749 / €870 / £729
• RTX 5070 Price: $549 / €649 / £539

Of course, these are just the MSRPs for the FE Nvidia-made cards. Pricing is sure to differ when Gigabyte, ASUS ROG, MSI and others release their versions.

Luckily we were treated to way smaller cards than we were expected. Again, just like the prices, do not expect these dimensions to stay the same when AIB cards come out. In fact, the 4070 Ti will only be made available via ASUS ROG, MSI, etc. As you'll see from the 50-Series dimensions table below.

The 50 Series are not just about pure unbridled compute horsepower, however. There are a few new features exclusive to these “Blackwell” cards that are proposed to increase performance with AI-powered assistance. Here’s a rundown of what’s new and exclusive to the 50-series.

Nvidia DLSS 4 is only available on the 50-series cards and it uses an AI model trained by NVIDIA’s supercomputers to do a few things that can improve performance in-game. The first of which is in pursuit of the noblest of causes: Frames per second.

DLSS Multi Frame Generation basically uses AI to generate up to three frames per actual rendered frame in real-time. So, it’s not like the GPU is working overtime to manually render each frame, more like taking well-educated guesses in the moment and generating additional frames.

The long and short of this is that the 50 series is expected be able to use AI to up the FPS of many games, using DLSS 4. However, we’re yet to see what the gameplay experience is like outside of NVIDIA’s demo video of Cyberpunk 2077.

This one does not directly create more frames with AI. This time, it’s all about the detail, and using AI to generate additional pixels “between sampled rays.”

To show this off, NVIDIA used Cyberpunk 2077 and the demonstration really does look impressive, with a noticeable upgrade as to the detail in reflections. Reflections of course being the things that ray tracing really do help to improve.

Super Resolution is here for pure image quality without tanking the frame rate. Not more polygons or more detailed reflections and textures.

This uses the aforementioned AI to output a higher resolution image, intelligently creating the additional pixels from a low-resolution input. NVIDIA used God of War to show this off.

This time NVIDIA is using the same AI technology that they used in the previous section: Super Resolution. However, this time it’s not using AI to turn a low-res image into something closer to 4K.

This time it stays at the native resolution you’re playing at, using the AI-created graphical headroom to help smooth out awkwardly jagged edges that older games in particular tend to be fraught with. We got to see No Man’s Sky exhibit this technology and this was the most immediately apparent improvement in image quality of the new DLSS 4 features for sure.

Even the AI-sceptics fearful of corrupting the true-nature of their videogames might find Deep Learning Anti-Aliasing hard to argue with.