Nvidia announces its RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: RTX 5090 ($1,999) and RTX 5080 ($999) launching on January 30, and RTX 5070 Ti ($749) and RTX 5070 ($549) launching in February.
Launch cadence accelerated in 2025 but the pattern inverted — the most important releases were infrastructure, not consumer products. Nvidia's Blackwell architecture, custom silicon from Google and Amazon, and open-weight models from Meta and Mistral reshaped what was possible. Consumer launches increasingly felt like features rather than products.