Now let's dive into the most important aspects of Blackwell. There's both good and bad here. The GeForce RTX 5090 is outrageously expensive, as expected, priced at $2,000. Meanwhile, the RTX 5080, with half the GPU hardware, is priced at $1,000 – less extreme than many rumors suggested, though still quite expensive.

While the Blackwell GPU is impressive, DLSS 4 is what truly gets RTX 50-series to 2X better performance over 40-series. There are some impressive visuals on display, but in games without DLSS 4 support the gains are far smaller.

Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards have been officially revealed and they are beastly. The RTX 5090 will cost $2,000 and require a recommended power supply of 1kW, or roughly the equivalent of running a belt sander non-stop.