Nvidia RTX 50-series pushes AI to the forefront
Author: Jarred Walton
TWO YEARS ON from the launch of the RTX 4090, Nvidia officially announced its Blackwell RTX 50-series GPUs, with availability starting January 30. Several of the models offer relatively incremental upgrades over the existing 40-series cards, but the top-end RTX 5090 will provide a big boost to gaming performance, and perhaps a bigger boost to AI workloads. The GB202 chip at the heart of the 5090 comes with 170 streaming multiprocessors, 21,720 CUDA cores, and 32GB of GDDR7 on a 512-bit memory in...