Nvidia teases RTX 5000 series with Hype Meter, GeForce Greats, and LAN 50 promotions

[midian182]

Something to look forward to: Nvidia has once again teased the RTX 5000-series arrival without mentioning the cards by name or officially confirming anything. The company has launched the GeForce Hype Meter, which offers bigger and better prizes the more that users engage in the GeForce Greats promotion.

Nvidia writes that to mark 25 years since the launch of the GeForce 256, it will be taking a nostalgic journey on its social media channels to celebrate the all-time greats of PC gaming.

Nvidia describes this as a "prize-filled adventure" in which people can unlock the prize pool by joining in gaming debates and using the #GeForceGreats tag in social posts. The responses fuel the GeForce Hype Meter, raising it until all prize levels are unlocked – there appears to be at least one custom PC up for grabs.

To enter the GeForce Greats competition, follow Nvidia's GeForce, GeForce NOW, Studio, and AI PC social channels, and be on the lookout for key prompts and instructions. When prompted, use #GeForceGreats across its posts now through January 6.

You can see the current hype level here.

As for the RTX 5000 series, Nvidia writes that the GeForce Greats promotion is taking place "before we look into the future."

It all starts now…

🟢 CELEBRATE 25 Years of GeForce
🟢 PLAY along & join our GeForce LAN 50
🟢 WATCH our NVIDIA Keynote at CES 2025 on 1/6/25#GeForceGreats → https://t.co/LGRaII9HUV pic.twitter.com/enMKzdr5OK

– NVIDIA GeForce (@NVIDIAGeForce) December 13, 2024

Another nod toward the Blackwell consumer GPUs is the GeForce LAN 50 event that starts at 4:30 p.m. PT on January 4. It lasts 50 hours, ending at the exact time that CEO Jensen Huang is delivering his CES keynote speech – 6:30 p.m. PT on January 6. The repeated appearance of the number 50 is a big hint of what's coming, of course.

Those wanting to take part in the GeForce LAN 50 event can do so online or at one of four physical LAN events in Las Vegas, Berlin, Taipei, and Beijing.

To access GeForce LAN Missions, open the Nvidia app, GeForce Experience, or GeForce NOW and login with your Nvidia account, play any of the GeForce LAN missions for 50 continuous minutes, then claim your reward from whichever program you're using.

Huang hasn't made an appearance at CES since 2019, when he introduced the RTX 2060. Nvidia SVP Jeff Fisher has taken over the presenting duties at the event since then, unveiling the likes of the RTX 3060, RTX 4070 Ti, and, most recently, the RTX 4000 Super series. The fact Huang is returning is a clear indication that Nvidia has something big in store.

Nvidia might be trying to raise the hype around the RTX 5000 series, and it sounds like the first cards out of the gate will be incredibly powerful, but many are concerned about the company not learning from the Lovelace mistakes and pricing the GPUs ridiculously high. With AMD admitting it won't be competing with its rival's next-gen flagship products and most of Nvidia's money coming from AI products, Team Green might push the RTX 5090 and 5080 prices through the roof.

A few hours ago, the Witcher 4 trailer debuted at The Game Awards. It was rendered using an unannounced Nvidia GPU, rumored to be an RTX 5090.

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Nvidia teases RTX 5000 series with Hype Meter, GeForce Greats, and LAN 50 promotions

 

[Felusy]

I am expecting a mediocre generation from the leaks I have seen. Looks like they are just ramping up clockspeed and power to deliver a small gain over 4000 series, on the same process node or very close.

Also, 4 months delay minimum. 5090 should have been out in october. I could easily see Nvidia respond to AMD UDNA (2026) with 3nm gaming GPUs later that year, meaning 5000 series will be shortlived.

If Nvidia was under pressure, they would not release 5000 series in this state. Sadly they know AMD only comes with low to mid end solutions and 8800XT is the fastest model. Hopefully it will beat 5070 by 10-20% in raster and maybe even match it in RT as well.

After all 5070 is rumoured to only get 6400 cores. That is almost half of 5080, with a smaller bus too.

5080 tho, will have like half the cores of 5090 too. Huge gap between 80 and 90 next time. Bigger than we have ever seen.

 

[MasterAce]

Who cares about inaccessibly priced Nvidia GPUs.

I spent 1100€ on a 7900XTX when the 4080 was selling for 1500€. I’m sure the 7 series is the new 1000$ GPU going forward. It already is in the €uro land.

 

[airbornex]

Nvidia’s celebrating 25 years of GeForce by making us hype ourselves into spending $2,000 on an RTX 5090. It’s like throwing your own surprise party but charging your friends for entry.

 

[godrilla]

Nvidia’s celebrating 25 years of GeForce by making us hype ourselves into spending $2,000 on an RTX 5090. It’s like throwing your own surprise party but charging your friends for entry.

Unfortunately their in a ideal position in market conditions for Nvidia. The 4090s new are selling for $2500 to $3500. This is being justified by trolls on Nvidia's payroll for LLM training claims, because in 2025 when you can stream 4k 120 hz hdr 10 bit with dlaa and reflex PC gaming via 4080 in the cloud for $10 that there is no cloud solution for llm training oh wait. I sold my 25 month 4090 at the same price I bought it because it will probably not get better equity than it is now.

Nvidia will probably drop higher prices that most are expecting but with current market conditions that they manipulated will seem like it's cheaper than the 4090 at $2500 to $3500 price tag. Nvidia loves smoke and mirrors!

 

[nnguy2]

Nvidia isn't even trying to hide with the Hype Meter LOL

 

[godrilla]

With the Witcher 4 leak claiming running on Unnounced rtx hardware I am surprised that we don't have any leaks yet compared to the rest of the past year.

 

[Eldrach]

Yeah....this will be around 3000 dollars for certain. Which is also why I think they have suge a huge gap between 5080 and 5090 specs. The 5080 will be slightly faster than the 4090, which still makes it the second best card in the market as AMD is only aiming for the midrange cards this round.
I'll still get one, but it will sting to a whole new level in my wallet.

 

[HardwareHunt365]

Thank you AMD for allowing Nvidia to stretch their leadership performance even further! $1499 for a 5080 won't be a surprise.

 

[Starfals]

Thank you AMD for allowing Nvidia to stretch their leadership performance even further! $1499 for a 5080 won't be a surprise.

I wonder who you and all the rest will blame when AMD stops making GPUs, and Nvidia start pricing RTX 7060 for 1500 dollazrzs