
NVidia announced their new generation of GPUs at the beginning of this year, at CES in Las Vegas. The first of those “Blackwell” architecture based cards are now hitting the market, starting with the top end 5090, and the second tier 5080, which I have had the opportunity to test. The next steps down, the 5070 and 5070 Ti, will be available in February. The new Blackwell cards are the first to support PCIe 5.0, for faster interface with the host system, and DDR7 for greater memory bandwidth and lower power consumption. NVidia also announced laptop versions of the Blackwell lineup, which should be coming soon as well.
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