NVIDIA BLACKWELL RTX DEEP DIVE

The biggest changes all revolve around AI

IT TOOK A BIT LONGER than we were expecting, but Nvidia’s Blackwell RTX architecture and GPU family have finally arrived. We reviewed the RTX 5090 last issue, and test the RTX 5080 in this issue, but there’s a lot more to say about everything that’s going on under the hood. Blackwell RTX differs in several key areas from the data center Blackwell architecture, just as the Hopper architecture differed from Ada Lovelace design. As expected, AI and machine learning lands front and center for all the new GPUs coming out this year, which can be both good and bad. Beside the core architectural changes relative to the prior generation, Nvidia has overhauled its Founders Edition design, created new software tools and features, doubled down on frame generation as a way…

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