Nvidia had a lot of announcements prepared for CES 2025. The company announced its new line of RTX 50 series graphics cards, updates to AI-powered DLSS 4, new Blackwell GPUs, and updates to Geforce NOW, its cloud game streaming service.
Here is everything you need to know about Nvidia’s CES 2025 announcements.
Nvidia launches Geforce RTX 50 series graphics cards
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holds a Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU (L) and a RTX 5000 laptop as he delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on… Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holds a Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU (L) and a RTX 5000 laptop as he delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 2025. Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images
Nvidia president and CEO Jensen Huang kicked off the presentation by announcing the RTX 50 series graphics cards. Powered by the latest Blackwell GPU architecture, the RTX 50 series includes fifth-generation Tensor Cores and fourth-generation Ray Tracing Cores.
Here are the graphics card announcements from Nvidia:
- Nvidia Geforce RTX 5070 – $549, releasing February 2025
- Nvidia Geforce RTX 5070 Ti – $749, releasing February 2025
- Nvidia Geforce RTX 5080 – $999, releasing January 30
- Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090 – $1,999, releasing January 30
Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture supports GDDR7 memory, enhanced PCIe Gen 5, and DisplayPort 2.1b UHBR20 ports. The GPU also introduces neural shaders, which can help in compressing game texture data by a massive amount. Nvidia also confirmed that the impressive Witcher 4 reveal trailer was pre-rendered in Unreal Engine 5 on a GeForce RTX 5090.
The flagship RTX 5090 includes 21760 CUDA cores, 3352 AI TOPS, 318 TFLOPS, 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM and can boost up to 2.41GHz. The lower-end RTX 5070 includes 6144 CUDA cores, 988 AI TOPS, 94 TFLOPS, 12GB of GDDR7 VRAM and can boost up to 2.51GHz.
Nvidia features announced for Nvidia Broadcast and content creators
For AI evangelists and content creators, the RTX 50 series’ new NVENC encoders can encode HEVC and AV1 video up to 5% faster. The upgraded Nvidia Decoder can decode and playback up to “eight 4K60 4:2:2 video streams” simultaneously. The RTX 50 series also supports 4:2:2 pro-grade color format, multiview-HEVC (MV-HEVC) for 3D and virtual reality (VR) video, and a new AV1 Ultra High-Quality mode. These features will be available for use in Davinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro, Capcut, and Wondershare Filmora starting in February 2025.
The Nvidia Broadcast app is also getting upgraded with two new effects: Studio Voice and Virtual Key Light. Livestreamers using Streamlabs can now deploy an AI agent powered by NVIDIA ACE and Inworld AI to interact with and manage the stream. There are many more AI announcements that you can read about on the official
Late last year, Nvidia showed me the future of AI in gaming, but I wasn’t convinced. It looks like the company’s push for more AI features in core gaming might change my opinion.
DLSS 4 includes multi-frame generation, exclusive to RTX 50 series
DLSS 4 adds support for what Nvidia calls multi-frame generation, a technique that “generates up to three additional frames per traditionally rendered frame” to produce over double the frames compared to DLSS 3.5.
All of Nvidia’s DLSS features such as ray reconstruction and super resolution will be powered by a transformer-based model, replacing the Convolutional Neural Network model. Nvidia confirmed that 75 games will support DLSS 4 at launch, including Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Marvel Rivals. RTX 40 series GPU owners can also reap the benefits of enhanced DLSS frame generation. According to the company, its latest frame-generation model is “40% faster” and “uses 30% less VRAM”.
In one example scene from Cyberpunk 2077, enabling DLSS 4 frame generation produces 246fps over 141fps on the GeForce RTX 5090, almost twice the improvement.
RTX 50 series owners can also force DLSS 4 features like multi frame generation for unsupported games through the Nvidia app. DLSS 4 will be available in upcoming games like Doom: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening, and Black State at launch.
Nvidia also announced Reflex 2 with “Frame Warp technology” which is claimed to reduce latency by up to 75%. In an example from The Finals, Reflex 2 reduces PC latency from 27ms to 14ms over the previous version. The latency-reducing technology will debut in Valorant and The Finals first on RTX 50 series GPUs, coming to older generation RTX GPUs later.
GeForce RTX 50 series gaming laptops get improved battery life and performance
The new laptops powered by GeForce RTX 50 series mobile graphics will benefit from up to “40% better battery life” thanks to improvements in efficiency Blackwell Max-Q. The mobile Geforce RTX 5090 includes 7,680 CUDA cores, 1,334 AI TOPS, and 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM, which is a big step down from its desktop counterpart.
The RTX 5070 laptop GPU will include 4,608 CUDA cores, 798 AI TOPS, and 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM, significantly cut down from the desktop RTX 5070 GPU.
Laptops powered by Geforce RTX 50 series GPUs will launch in March, with new models from popular manufacturers like Acer Predator Helios 16 AI, Alienware 16 Area-51, and more.
Geforce NOW cloud gaming is coming to Steam Deck and India
Geforce NOW, the cloud game streaming service, is coming to Steam Deck. Nvidia announced that a native Geforce NOW Steam Deck app is in development, with support for 4K 60fps gameplay with HDR. The Steam Deck OLED was already the best PC handheld, and it’s going to get even better with native cloud streaming. You’ll also be able to connect the Deck to an external supported monitor to play games at 1440p 120fps through Geforce NOW.
Nvidia is also launching GeForce RTX 4080-powered data centers in India and Latin America, with the former getting Geforce NOW in the first half of 2025. The service is also adding new games at launch, including Obsidian’s Avowed and id Software’s Doom: The Dark Ages.
The service is also expanding to more VR devices with increased capability, starting with the Meta Quest 3 and 3S, Pico headsets, and Apple Vision Pro.
That’s not all in the world of handhelds, as AMD also announced its new Ryzen Z2 processors for the Lenovo Legion Go, and other handhelds at CES. Atari is also revealing a new handheld console called the Gamestation Go at the convention.
You can watch the full Nvidia CES 2025 presentation on YouTube or below.
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is taking place at the Las Vegas Convention Center from January 7-10, 2025.
