Platform for gamers: Nvidia
GeForce RTX 50 Series
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The GeForce 50 series is a series of consumer graphics processing units developed by Nvidia as part of its GeForce line of graphics cards, succeeding the GeForce 40 series.
On January 6, 2025, the GeForce 50 series was officially announced for both desktop and mobile devices during Nvidia’s CES keynote in Las Vegas. The pricing announcement was met with surprise as the RTX 5080 at $999 was the same price that the RTX 4080 Super released at a year earlier despite the anticipated price increases. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claimed that the RTX 5070 could reach “RTX 4090 performance at $549” despite a heavy reliance on DLSS 4 upscaling and multi-frame generation rather than raw performance.
The GeForce 50 series is powered by the Blackwell microarchitecture which continues AdaLovelace’s emphasis on high graphics frequencies and large L2 caches. The Blackwell architecture introduces Nvidia RTX’s fourth-generation RT cores for hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing and fifth-generation Tensor Cores for AI compute and performing floating-point calculation
Equipped with a massive level of AI horsepower, the RTX 50 Series enables new experiences and next-level graphics fidelity. Multiply performance with NVIDIA DLSS 4, generate images at unprecedented speed, and unleash your creativity with NVIDIA Studio.
The GeForce 50 series uses the 16-pin 12V2×6 connector which is a revision of the 12VHPWR connector featured on the GeForce 40 series. There were problems with the 12VHPWR connector melting on some RTX 4090 GPUs due to the connector not being fully seated and connector design flaws that did not implement a high enough safety and error tolerance.[14] The 12V2×6 connector revision, published by PCI-SIG in July 2023, addressed this by shortening the four sense pins so the connector will not push any power if it has not been fully seated.[15] The 12VHPWR design would still draw up to 150W of power even if the sense pins were not making full contact. 12V2×6 is backwards compatible with existing 12VHPWR cables and adapters.
