Following the excitement of CES 2025, NVIDIA shared additional details about the new 50-series GPUs and what their Blackwell-based architecture can deliver.

We do a lot of benchmarking, and Nvidia is bringing some new features to its RTX 50-series GPUs that require changes in how to collect performance data. Here's what you need to know about Nvidia's "best practices" as well as our plans for future testing of GPUs.

On January 6, 2025, NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang took to the CES 2025 stage to unveil the RTX Blackwell, a new series of graphics cards from the company. This family of GPUs is the RTX 50-series of cards:

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed the RTX 50-series GPUs during a CES keynote this evening, announcing a $1,999 RTX 5090, a $999 RTX 5080, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and a $549 RTX 5070. Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs will both be available on January 30th, with the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 to follow in February.

For many, specs will be the main point of comparison between the RTX 5090 and RTX 4090. That makes sense given that the Blackwell GPU will use a shiny new architecture paired with 32GB of faster GDDR7 VRAM and enhanced AI abilities, but it's worth noting that on-paper figures don't always translate performance-wise.

The standout feature of these gaming laptops is their impressive performance, rivalling that of more expensive last-gen models