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 Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards have been officially revealed and they are beastly. The RTX 5090 will cost $2,000 and require a recommended power supply of 1kW, or roughly the equivalent of running a belt sander non-stop. The latest line of GPUs comes as Nvidia rushes to fill demand in the current AI rat-race.

The new GPUs promising to take PC gaming rigs to the next level were revealed onstage at CES 2025 on Monday night by CEO Jensen Huang. You’re probably familiar with DLSS, Nvidia’s upscaling technology that squeezes even better resolutions at higher framerates out of existing computing resources, but the company is now also touting RTX Neural Shaders which will use machine learning to compress textures and free up even more processing power for other stuff.

The 5080 and 5090 are both available later this month, while the 5070 and 5070 Ti will ship in February. Here are the prices:

The big thing to note here is that Nvidia is promising big results even from the low-end budget card. All cards are supposed to be twice as fast on average as their corresponding predecessors, and Huang even claimed that this year’s $550 RTX 5070 would be as effective in practice as the previous $1,600 RTX 4090, seemingly due to machine learning and other optimizations.

At the high end, Nvidia showed a graph promising double the performance of the RTX 4090 from the newer (and only $400 more expensive) RTX 5090 across games like Alan Wake 2 and Black Myth: Wukong. The company even showed Cyberpunk 2077 running at over double the framerate with full raytracing enabled, because one can never have too many frames when navigating Night City’s treacherous underworld.

But while the 5090 is a power hog, it’s not quite the hulking big boy that it’s predecessor was. The 4090 founder’s edition was a three-slot card that weighed over five pounds. The 5090 will only be two slots, allowing it to fit into more compact PC builds at launch.

After a combined two divorces, a rumored affair, and months of tabloid gossip, Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster have finally made their glossy paparazzi debut. Per People, the former Music Man co-stars were photographed holding hands on Monday night, as they waltzed down the streets of Santa Monica laughing and staring into each other’s eyes. Actually, they look so carefree and in love I’m almost inclined to believe they’re blissfully unaware of all the drama surrounding their relationship. Almost.

Let’s recap the couple’s timeline, shall we? In December 2021, Jackman and Foster hit Broadway to premiere their revival of the 1957 classic, The Music Man. They spent nearly two years onstage together playing Professor Harold Hill and Marian Paroo, and sources later told “Page Six” that the actors spent “all of their free time together” and “[snuck] around.” (Neither has commented on rumors of an affair.) In 2023, Jackman and his now ex-wife Deborra-lee Furness announced that they had decided to mutually end their 27-year marriage. The following year, Foster filed for divorce from her husband of ten years, Ted Griffin. And now, Foster and Jackman have hard launched their love with totally candid, definitely not pre-arranged photos in People. Who said romance was dead?

On Saturday, Jackman was also reportedly spotted in the audience of one of the final performances of Foster’s Once Upon a Mattress at Los Angeles’s Ahmanson Theatre. He sat next to Carol Burnett, who originated Foster’s role in the 1959 production of the show. Cute! Messy origins aside, I will begrudgingly root for Wolverine and his new paramour. I need something to believe in anyways, and soulmates finding each other later in life seems like a small miracle I can get behind.