In a packed Las Vegas arena, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang stood on stage and marveled over the crisp real-time computer graphics displayed on the screen behind him. He watched as a dark-haired woman walked through ornate gilded double doors and took in the rays of light that poured in through stained glass windows.

Nvidia has finally pulled the curtain off its next series of graphics cards. If you somehow avoided the mountain of rumors and leaks about Nvidia’s powerful, humongous, and energy-hungry RTX 50-series GPUs, that are all that and more.

With more AI acceleration than ever even the RTX 5070 is claimed to offer RTX 4090-level performance for $549.