Now let's dive into the most important aspects of Blackwell. There's both good and bad here. The GeForce RTX 5090 is outrageously expensive, as expected, priced at $2,000. Meanwhile, the RTX 5080, with half the GPU hardware, is priced at $1,000 – less extreme than many rumors suggested, though still quite expensive.

As rumors suggested, the RTX 5090 comes with 32G of GDDR7 memory, and it packs a power draw of 575 watts. Nvidia is still able to deliver that much wattage over a single 16-pin connector, which it has used in the previous two generations of graphics cards.