NVIDIA AT CES 2025
Jensen Huang’s keynote at CES 2025 didn’t disappoint, but it was only when we saw live demos using the new Nvidia cards that we appreciated what the company had achieved
Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs were arguably the biggest news of CES 2025, encompassing four desktop cards – the RTX 5090 ($1,999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749) and RTX 5070 $549) – plus equivalent chips for laptops. But to get a true taste for what the cards could do, I went behind the scenes at a private Nvidia event.
DLSS 4 IS THE KEY
“Can it run Cyberpunk 2077?” has become the 2020s equivalent of “can it run Crysis?”, and boy, can the RTX 5090 run Cyberpunk 2077. At maxed-out settings, I saw a peak of around 265fps and a low of 245fps. Every detail is crisp, the fidelity incredible and smoothness fantastic – and much is thanks to Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) 4. This uses a machine learning model trained on the game to boost resolution and improve frame rates.