The next-generation Nvidia Blackwell GPU architecture and RTX 50-series GPUs are coming, basically on schedule. Nvidia officially detailed the first four cards in the Blackwell RTX 50-series family at CES 2025, during CEO Jensen Huang's keynote on January 6. We expect the various Blackwell GPUs will join the ranks of the best graphics cards, replacing their soon-to-be-prior-generation counterparts.
When we spoke with some people in early 2024, the expectation was that we'd see at least the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 by the time the 2024 holiday season rolled around. But then came the delay of Blackwell B200 along with packaging problems, and that appears to have pushed things back. Now, we're looking at a January 2025 announcement with at least one or two models coming before the end of the month, and perhaps as many as four different desktop cards — and the possibility of laptop RTX 50-series also exists.
Nvidia already provided many of the core details for its data center Blackwell B200 GPU. The AI and data center variants will inevitably differ from consumer parts, but there are some shared aspects between past consumer and data center Nvidia GPUs, and that should continue. That gives some good indications of certain aspects of the future RTX 50-series GPUs.
Things are starting to clear up now, with hard specifications and pricing details for the first four GPUs. There's still no official word on the 5060-class GPUs, but those should arrive at some point in the coming months.
Let's talk about specifications, technology, pricing, and other details. We've been updating this article for a while now, as information became available, and we're now in the home stretch. Here's everything we know about Nvidia Blackwell and the RTX 50-series GPUs.
