NVIDIA announce 'Blackwell' GeForce RTX 50 Series, DLSS 4 and brings AI to Shaders with RTX Neural Shaders

NVIDIA had some pretty big announcements at CES 2025 for gamers and game developers, like the announcement of the new 'Blackwell' GeForce RTX 50 Series, DLSS 4 and bringing AI to Shaders. There was also the Steam Deck getting full GeForce NOW support.

“Blackwell, the engine of AI, has arrived for PC gamers, developers and creatives,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Fusing AI-driven neural rendering and ray tracing, Blackwell is the most significant computer graphics innovation since we introduced programmable shading 25 years ago.”

Here's the new cards that were announced:

The GeForce RTX 5090 GPU ($1,999) and the GeForce RTX 5080 GPU ($999) will be available on January 30th. While the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU ($749) and GeForce RTX 5070 GPU ($549) will be available sometime in February.

DLSS 4 was also announced bringing Multi Frame Generation to "boost frame rates by using AI to generate up to three frames per rendered frame". Additionally it introduces "the graphics industry’s first real-time application of the transformer model architecture" to "provide greater stability, reduced ghosting, higher details and enhanced anti-aliasing in game scene" that will be supported on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.

There's also NVIDIA Reflex 2 that brings "Frame Warp" to further reduce latency in games by "updating a rendered frame based on the latest mouse input just before it is sent to the display" which NVIDIA claim can "reduce latency by up to 75%".

Something else that's pretty big and could be quite exciting for both gamers and developers is RTX Neural Shaders, "which bring small neural networks into programmable shaders" that includes these:

• RTX Neural Texture Compression uses AI to compress thousands of textures in less than a minute. Their neural representations are stored or accessed in real time or loaded directly into memory without further modification. The neurally compressed textures save up to 7x more VRAM or system memory than traditional block compressed textures at the same visual quality.
• RTX Neural Materials uses AI to compress complex shader code typically reserved for offline materials and built with multiple layers such as porcelain and silk. The material processing is up to 5x faster, making it possible to render film-quality assets at game-ready frame rates.
• RTX Neural Radiance Cache uses AI to learn multi-bounce indirect lighting to infer an infinite amount of bounces after the initial one to two bounces from path traced rays. This offers better path traced indirect lighting and performance versus path traced lighting without a radiance cache. NRC is now available through the RTX Global Illumination SDK, and will be available soon through RTX Remix and Portal with RTX.