It's been two years since NVIDIA introduced its Ada Lovelace GPUs, kicking things off with the RTX 4090 and finishing up the initial lineup with the SUPER family At CES, the company unveiled its new RTX 50 "Blackwell" family which features a brand new architecture and several changes such as new cores, AI accelerators, new memory standards, and the latest video/display capabilities.

NVIDIA recently released its 5th entry within its "RTX 50" portfolio, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti. The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is positioned in the mainstream segment , with the green team promising great value for gamers at a starting MSRP of $429 for the 16 GB models. Today, we will try out the , which retails for a premium of $100 US with a listed price of $529.99 US.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Gaming Graphics Cards

With Blackwell, NVIDIA is going full-on into the AI segment with loads of optimizations & AI-specific accelerators.

The Blackwell GPU does many traditional things that we would expect from a GPU, but simultaneously breaks the barrier regarding untraditional GPU operations. To sum up some features:

• New Streaming Multiprocessor (SM)
• New 5th Gen Tensor Cores
• New 4th Gen RT (Ray Tracing) Cores
• AI Management Processor
• Max-Q Mode for Desktops & Laptops
• New GDDR7 High-Performance Memory Subsystem
• New DP2.1b Display Engine & Next-Gen NVENC/NVDEC

The technologies mentioned above are some of the main building blocks of the Blackwell GPU, but there's more within the graphics core itself, which we will talk about in detail, so let's get started.