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NVIDIA had one of the biggest announcements out ofCES 2025, revealing itsnew 50-series RTX graphics cards.
This left everyone wondering about actual native performance with the cards when DLSS is not enabled.
A render of NVIDIA’s upcoming RTX 5090.
NVIDIA performed this test with a 1440p resolution and max parameters.
That number stays flat when you add DLSS 3 without ray tracing.
The RTX 5070’s Ti sibling represents a similar performance uplift compared to its RTX 4070 Ti predecessor.
A look at RTX 5070 performance compared to the RTX 4070.
The story is the same with DLSS 4 running, with select games tipping the 2x performance comparison.
Closing the comparisons is the RTX 5090.
NVIDIA is claiming a 30% performance increase compared to the RTX 4090 with DLSS disabled.
RTX 5070 Ti performance compared to the RTX 4070 Ti.
That’s the biggest jump out of all the 50-series GPUs, but it doesn’t come cheap.
That’s roughly a 22% price bump compared to its predecessor.
It also boasts 32GB of faster GDDR7 VRAM, up from 24GB of GDDR6 in the RTX 4090.
A look at the RTX 5080’s performance compared to the RTX 4080.
It doesn’t matter how many frames your GPU creates if it can’t deliver them on time.
In a separate slide, NVIDIA quelled some fears on this front.
All of the information NVIDIA shared here is appreciated, and it no doubt puts some fears to rest.
NVIDIA RTX 5090 performance compared to the RTX 4090.
A look at latency on the RTX 5090 with and without DLSS enabled.
