GeForce RTX 50 & RDNA 4: What are your first impressions of the graphics innovations at CES? 219 comments
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The most important news at CES for PC gamers and therefore for a large part of the Techconseil community are the new gaming graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD. Looking back, what is the mood like from the presentations and the six new GPUs? Today’s Sunday question is intended to provide some insight.
Table of Contents What is your first impression of the graphics innovations at CES? An exciting week for GPU enthusiasts What does the community think of the GeForce RTX 50 and Radeon RX 9000? What new graphics cards are successful? Already considering buying? Participation is expressly welcomeThe last ten Sunday questions in the overview of motivation and data use
An exciting week for GPU enthusiasts
As expected, Nvidia presents the GeForce RTX 50 series at CES 2025 with GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 for desktops and laptops, as well as the new DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation and Reflex 2 with Frame Warp introduced. Over the past week, no other piece of content on Techoutil has received as many visits and comments as the GeForce presentation – by far.
Nvidia RTX 50 vs RTX 40: Technical data of the graphics cards in comparisonGeForce RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 (Ti): Custom designs at a glanceNvidia DLSS 4: Multi-frame generation and a new neural networkNvidia DLSS 4: These 75 games receive multi frame GenerationNvidia Reflex 2 in detail: here’s how frame warping reduces latency in all scenarios
In the Techconseil CB-Funk podcast, Jan and Fabian analyze what is already known and what is not known about the new generation and, in addition to the well-founded first considerations about the performance of the rasterizer, also discuss the many new software functions available. appear for older RTX graphics cards.
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AMD, in turn, surprisingly decided not to showcase the new RDNA 4 Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 graphics cards in the live stream. There was some advance information for the press, but the graphics cards will ultimately only be shown at a separate event. Meanwhile, aside from the initial key data, rumors and speculation dominate the debate over RDNA 4 and the new AI FSR 4 supersampling.
Radeon RX 9070 (XT) and RX 9060: These custom designs are already known AMD Radeon RX 9070 and rumor mill preview price of FSR 4: AMD’s AI oversampling surprises with a very good first impressionAI oversampling: AMD also wants to run FSR 4 on Radeon RX 7000
Several thousand comments on the new graphics cards come from the community through numerous articles and reports; there is a great need for discussion. Today’s Sunday question aims to reflect this – and provide insight into readers’ first impressions.
What does the community think of the GeForce RTX 50 and Radeon RX 9000?
The first two surveys focus on the appearance of Nvidia and AMD and the presentations at CES themselves. So it’s not just the new products themselves that play a role, but also the flood of media reports orchestrated during CES and the details released after the show. How successful do you think Nvidia’s idea was?
And what about AMD’s performance?
It was already mentioned in the introduction that the software features for GeForce and Radeon received at least as much attention at the show as the hardware. In your opinion, is this justified? What are at most three aspects and topics in the context of gaming graphics cards that you find particularly exciting and promising?
AMD’s ultimately announced AI supersampling, in particular, made headlines. Initially, the presentation slides indicated that FSR 4 could only run on the Radeon RX 9070 (XT). Meanwhile, AMD told the press in the run-up to CES that FSR 4 was developed exclusively for RDNA 4 – and therefore for all RX 9000 graphics cards. After the presentation, marketing director Frank Azor admitted that AMD itself does not yet know exactly which FSR 4 graphics cards will be available on. Compatibility for RDNA 3 is being worked on, but the outlook is still uncertain. How serious do you think a gap would be?
Which new graphics cards were successful?
Nvidia has at least comprehensively presented the first four RTX 50 graphics cards, although raw information on expected performance has been largely avoided. This makes an initial evaluation of the products possible. For the Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070, on the other hand, the information situation is much sparser. Thus, only the four new GeForce accelerators are listed in the following surveys.
However, details on memory expansion can be found for all six newcomers. How do you evaluate the amount of graphics memory installed for gaming?
Never before has the gap between the top-end GeForce model and the cheapest graphics card been as big as at Gaming-Blackwell. With the RTX 5090, Nvidia has introduced a GPU that, at least on paper, is twice as powerful as the RTX 5080 – and therefore twice as expensive. There are also superlatives when it comes to power consumption. In your opinion, is this a turning point or a completely unusual development?
Already considering buying?
Finally, the question is a bit hasty if you are already looking at one of the new launches with your wallet out: are you already wondering if you want to buy one of the graphics cards presented at CES?
Participation is expressly desired
As always, the editorial team is happy to receive well-founded and detailed reasons for your decisions in the comments to the current Sunday issue. If you personally have completely different opinions that are not covered by the answer options offered in the article surveys, you can also report them on the forum. Ideas and suggestions for adding content to current or future surveys are also welcome.
Readers who have not yet responded to the previous Sunday’s questions are encouraged to do so, as surveys always take place over a 30-day period. The only condition to participate is a free Techconseil account. There are often still exciting discussions going on on the forum, especially regarding questions from last Sunday.
The last ten Sunday questions at a glance
Christmas Questions: Did you upgrade in 2024 and was there any technology for the holidays? Building a DIY PC: a blessing or a curse? Gaming PC: which manufacturer does the graphics card, SSD and case come from? Mobile communications: How much does your tariff cost and which provider are you with? Audio on your desktop: Are you using headphones, speakers, headphones or a microphone? Idle consumption: What is what is actually “idle” for you and is it relevant?20 years of Half-Life 2: Is Shooter really that good and do you still believe in part 3? RAM: How much RAM do you have, how fast is it, and does it have RGB? TV Setups: How big is your TV and what’s connected to it? AMD and Intel: what processors do you have and how fast will the Core Ultra 200S be?
Motivation and use of data
The data collected within the framework of Sunday Questions is intended solely to make the mood within the community as well as the hardware and software preferences of readers and their development more visible. There is no financial or advertising context and no evaluation for market research purposes or transmission of data to third parties.
Topics: AMD CES 2025 Community GeForce Graphics Cards GeForce RTX 50 Nvidia Nvidia Blackwell Radeon RDNA 4 RX 9070 RX 9070 XT Sunday Question
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