After months of waiting, Nvidia has finally announced its new line of graphics cards, led by the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 at CES 2025. And while there are only a couple graphics cards at the Las Vegas tech show, the rest of the lineup should filter out over the next few months.
The star of the show is obviously the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090, succeeding the massively powerful RTX 4090. And even if you can't fork over the cash for the RTX 5090, you can grab the RTX 5070, which allegedly provides RTX 4090 performance for $549.
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 will come out later in January, for $1,999. The RTX 5090 will be accompanied by the RTX 5080 for $999, the RTX 5070 Ti for $749 adn the RTX 5070 for $549.
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Kept Us Waiting, Huh?
While we all kind of knew a new graphics card is on the way, the RTX 4000 series graphics cards had one of the longest runs in a while. Usually, new graphics cards come out on a roughly 2-year cycle, coming out every other fall. However, Nvidia totally missed that mark – as did AMD – and delivered its cards about four months later than I would expect.
Likely a big part of that wait came down to the competition – or lack thereof. Right up until Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at CES, the RTX 4090 reigned as the most powerful dekstop graphics card on the market, with nothing from AMD or Intel even coming close. Perhaps that's why it remained a $2,000 graphics card through its entire lifespan.
Of course, with the RTX 5090 getting even more expensive, it seems like Nvidia is betting that this generation is going to follow the same shape as the last, with this flagship card having a wide lead on anything else on the market. Unfortunately, that also means more expensive graphics cards all around. It's possible that we'll see Nvidia launch an affordable 50-series graphics card over the next year or so, likely with the RTX 5060, but keep in mind that the RTX 4060 came out in June 2023 – a whopping 8 months after the RTX 4090 hit the market in October 2022.
Either way, with games like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle adopting high-end tech like full ray tracing, a graphics card like the RTX 5090 is going to go a long way to making sure your gaming PC is up to snuff for years to come – or at least until the next Nvidia graphics cards come out.
Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor at IGN and the PC components queen. You can follow her @Jackiecobra
