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Nvidia RTX 50 Series What you need to know

NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards are packed with power and features for gamers and creators. They use the latest Blackwell architecture, which includes advanced AI processing and ray tracing capabilities. This means you can expect stunning visuals, smoother gameplay, and faster performance in your favorite games and creative applications.

The RTX 50 Series offers a range of models to suit different needs and budgets. The flagship RTX 5090 delivers the highest performance, while the RTX 5070 is a more affordable option. All models feature GDDR7 memory for faster data transfer and improved performance.

Here are some key features of the RTX 50 Series:

  • Blackwell architecture: Powers the RTX 50 Series, offering significant performance boosts over previous generations.
  • Fifth-generation Tensor Cores: Optimized for AI performance, enabling features like DLSS 4 and AI-powered upscaling.
  • New Streaming Multiprocessors: Designed for neural shaders, further enhancing AI capabilities.
  • Fourth-generation Ray Tracing Cores: Provide faster ray tracing performance, enabling more realistic lighting and reflections in games.
  • DLSS 4 with Multi-Frame Generation: Generates multiple frames from a single frame, significantly improving performance without sacrificing image quality.
  • NVIDIA Reflex 2 with Frame Warp: Reduces system latency, making games more responsive and competitive.
  • True-to-Life Graphics: Full ray tracing with neural rendering delivers stunning visuals.
  • Digital Humans and AI Assistants: NVIDIA ACE powers the next generation of AI-driven characters and virtual assistants.
  • Accelerated Creativity: NVIDIA Studio tools and technologies help creators work faster and more efficiently.

Overall, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series represents a significant leap forward in graphics technology, offering gamers and creators unparalleled performance, features, and realism.

What does this mean?

Basically these cards are aimed at AI being used for Frame generation (how elese would it work) with the feature of DLSS4 which is game dependent of course. What is DLSS4?

DLSS 4 is a powerful new technology that can significantly improve the gaming experience on NVIDIA’s latest GPUs. It uses AI to generate additional frames, which can boost frame rates and make games look smoother.

Here’s a breakdown of DLSS 4 Multi-Frame Generation:

  • Generates multiple frames: DLSS 4 can generate up to three additional frames per traditionally rendered frame, effectively multiplying frame rates by up to 8X.
  • Improved image quality: DLSS 4’s Super Resolution technology ensures that the generated frames look sharp and clear.
  • Reduced latency: DLSS 4’s Multi-Frame Generation is designed to minimize input latency, making games feel more responsive.

DLSS 4 Multi-Frame Generation is exclusive to NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards and is supported by over 75 games at launch.

Now this is of course great especailly if you running on high resolutions and high refreshrates on your monitor especially for 2K and 4K users can now play some games are a smoother framerate to match the Hz on the monitor espcially if you running above 120Hz.

Example of Frame generation ~ source Nvidia

As you can see the quality is still holding pretty well since its technically upscaling from a lower resolution much like Consoles have been doing it since the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 days where they could only render up to 720p/900p and use a upscaling chip to upscale to 1080p mainly cause the hardware could not handle most games natively in 1080p and 30-60 frames (90% was 30 frames)

Now since users are demanding higher frames especially for competitive gaming as a frame drop can cost you a kill on games such as Apex/Call of Duty / Valorant etc. however this doesnt matter to much on single player games (in our honest opinion) where even 60 framesĀ  is sufficient to run a Single player game although personally prefer 80-100frames mainly due to the monitor we using is 165hz.

Now besides this of course is that the specs of these cards arent fully out yet especially if you see Gigabyte / Asus / MSI and of course the others most of the clock speeds are showing TBD (To Be Determined) especailly now with a new Spec called AI Performance.

AI Performance are we not going overboard with AI or the push for AI in the last 3 years well AI has been around for decades mostly in the form of preprogramming and reactions to specific inputs especially in gaming or commonly in gaming. However a few years ago there was Machine Learning from Apple on their phones such as the iPhone 7 which had Machine learning to better enhance your phone to be as fast as possible by learning how you operate your phone and it will have the battery performance goes with the CPU performance on the tasks you need it to be. Now even iPhones are getting AI although not sure what Apple is doing with that just yet except they call it Apple Intelligence (Marketing right).

Anyway with Ai we bet that this will be used to learn the games your playing and better focus where the raw power is going to especially with different game engines. The issue is that Developers may get lazy in my honest opinion and what is that we referring to is un-optimized games. However these cards may help with that. A good Example was Silent Hill remake orginally people complained that the games performance is really terrible well the game has Fog in the original game mainly to keep the draw distance low so that the PlayStation 1 could handle the large maps. now with this game it is still the case for the game itself however the games engine is still drawing great distances if you using a MOD to take the fog away you can see its drawing the distances in detail however you don’t see it so its using unnecessary amount of GPU power killing your frames or in that games case VRAM etc.

Now not all games focus on graphics like that games like Valorant which is online etc does run on low spec computers even at high framerates. So its not am must for everyone unless you want to play at really high framerates then yes that is then for you.

But the bigger thing about these cards is that Nividia claims this that the RTX 5090 is twice as powerfull than the RTX 4090 and same goes for RTX 5080 being twice as fast than the RTX 4080 now on AMD Side cant compare a RTX X090 to a Radeon just doesnt exist even the RX 790XTX..ish mainly price wise if you wanted Ray tracing on that side youd go for RTX 4090 then. but even so once benchmarks come out with these new cards we can compare with what Radeon has currently before the RX 9070 and RX 9070XT but we will see closer to that time however we believe that the RTX 50 series will kill that competition time will tell as AMD only showed off RX 9070 non and XT not sure if there will be a RX 9090 (Thanks for the renaming AMD) but more about that in upcoming future blogs.

Source~Nvidia

https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/geforce/news/rtx-50-series-graphics-cards-gpu-laptop-announcements/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-performance-chart-editors-day.jpg

 

Now this is a bit of a jump which is still great for a next generation of GPU’s besides gaming even video edition has a bit of a leap forward. Now of course Nvidia states this would or could be different in a real environment however still a increase in performance.

Who would use a RTX 5090 besides enthusiast gamers would be anyone in some form of production weather it be video edition or machine learning, and being for gamersĀ  that would be gamers that just want high frame rates at large resolutions if you gaming on a 1080p monitor and using a 90 card please upgrade or at least something like a 180hz and up.

Now for the RTX 5080 vs RTX 4080

https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/geforce/news/rtx-50-series-graphics-cards-gpu-laptop-announcements/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5080-performance-chart-editors-day.jpg

 

In comparison not as much of a jump compared to the RTX 5090 but still a good jump.

Now not releasing just yet (Sometime in February) will be the RTX 5070 cards including a Ti from what we gathered online.

https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/geforce/news/rtx-50-series-graphics-cards-gpu-laptop-announcements/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5070-ti-performance-chart-editors-day.jpg

 

https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/geforce/news/rtx-50-series-graphics-cards-gpu-laptop-announcements/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5070-performance-chart-editors-day.jpg

 

Card designs

It will be worth noting that instead of massive cards they have scalled them down a bit this of course depends on the manufacture not looking at founders edition. instead of 3 Slots they will be 2 Slots (some) specifically for RTX 5090.

 

Now with this being the case its worth noting that the RTX 50 series cards will be a consumer favorite or so time will tell.

These Cards should release month end of January should there be no change or delay.

Pricing and models to be put on the site once the cards have landed in South Africa we cannot show what is coming or pricing as of yet.

Brands to look out for

Asus, Gigabyte and MSI

 

Side note for potential buyers.

You may need to upgrade your Power supply as they are using the 12VHP Pin however the adapters (to be confirmed with some models) will come with the units but it is advisable to use a Power supply with a 12VHP connector.