Nvidia's new RTX 5070 will deliver 'RTX 4090 performance at $549' when it launches in February

During today's Nvidia CES 2025 keynote, Jen-Hsun Huang announced the new RTX Blackwell GeForce GPUs, with the RTX 5070 propping up the new range, offering "RTX 4090 performance at $549."

That's a pretty spectacular statement, with a previous gen GPU many tiers above the RTX xx70 level being superseded by a card costing a third less. The RTX 4090 was a $1,599 GPU at best, and generally costed far more throughout its lifetime, but is now being matched by a $549 card.

But, it is worth...