Overclocking.com is at CES 2025, as you probably know, especially if you’re part of our community. The anticipated (and highly hyped) moment was the NVIDIA conference, hosted by its boss Jensen Huang. Until then, NVIDIA had deserted CES in favor of events it controlled from A to Z, and most of the time online. It was therefore an eagerly awaited event, and the entire global tech microcosm rushed into the Mandalay Bay’s immense hall. The first thing we noticed was the delirious anticipation of the crowd awaiting the preaching of the apostle of AI.
A spectacular conference, but a little hollow
Once the wait was over, we were able to attend NVIDIA’s entire conference. The introduction on the evolution of NVIDIA, its birth and development, was pleasant and brought back fond memories for the older attendees. The same goes for the section on the company’s evolution in the world of AI, including a truly surprising “mini PC” (Project DIGITS) which, in our opinion, could foreshadow NVIDIA’s arrival on the PC market.
NVIDIA RTX 50s on show, with a few shock announcements
Now we come to the moment we’ve been waiting for: the RTX 50 announcements. It’s fair to say that NVIDIA’s boss led the way with a “wow moment”. And don’t get me wrong, that moment concerned the price announcement. Yes, by announcing an RTX 5070 with the same performance as a 4090 for $549, there was reason to be positively astonished. As a result, the price of the rest of the range, notably the RTX 5090 at well over 1999 US$ / 2349 €, went through the roof. But not here.
A few hours earlier, many observers had criticized AMD’s conference, pointing to vague figures, a lack of detail and an atmosphere that seemed deliberately nebulous on each of the products. So what can we say about NVIDIA’s announcements?
The performance figures announced by NVIDIA were more than nebulous, with the few figures displayed referring to TOPS data, and the RTX 5070 VS 4090 comparison seemed to us to border on bad faith. An RTX 5070 with DLSS 4 versus a 4090 with DLSS 3, but what about performance if DLSS 4 isn’t available for this RTX 5070 versus the RTX 4090? When a few hours later, the comparison ratios on the NVIDIA site seem to be returning to some form of reality.
So let’s be clear: the RTX 5090, like the other cards in the range, will once again be excellent cards. NVIDIA is still injecting quite a few game-changing technologies. But the state of bliss that seems to prevail among some seems to us at best disproportionate and at worst very unhealthy, especially when it comes to objectively informing an audience that is expecting a lot from the new features of 2025 to change its equipment. Once again, we’ll have to wait until the tests arrive before we can make up our minds. One thing’s for sure, though, and that’s that NVIDIA has pulled it off: everyone’s talking about this next generation of graphics cards!
