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.

Nvidia’s laptop lineup is fleshed out from the get-go, with the RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and the RTX 5070 arriving in March. It’s the RTX 5070 variant that caught my eye. Huang claims that these laptops will start at $1,

At CES on Monday night, Nvidia unveiled its long-awaited next generation of GeForce RTX graphics cards based on its latest Blackwell microarchitecture, and the race will soon begin by AI outfits training large language models and PC gamers alike to gobble up these new cards as soon as they are released.