Nvidia Drops Another RTX 50 Hint Ahead of CES

Nvidia really knows how to tease its products. The graphics card maker appears to have left an RTX 50 Easter egg in its video promoting its upcoming GeForce LAN 50 party – which, incidentally, is also promoting RTX 50. Apparently, a new GeForce Garage video on YouTube displays a darkened PC (think of an informant’s silhouette in a documentary). VideoCardz brightened an image from the video to reveal an unusual graphics card inside. The new RTX 50? It’s hard to tell, but that wouldn’t be surprising, given the timing.

Of course, a tease like this—assuming that Nvidia intended the image to stir up a buzz in the first place—is going to give us absolutely no firm details and plenty of questions. One of our questions is: What’s with the power cable? Its position and shape are unusual. And which card is it? As VideoCardz points out, the one in the image is likely too small to be an RTX 5090. Most importantly, is this even what the cards will really look like when they hit retail? You can tell us not to read too much into a fleeting glimpse of a shadowy PC component in a promotional video—but you know you’re wondering the same things we are.

Is that an RTX 50 in there?
Credit: Nvidia/ Lightroom edits

In any event, we won’t be wondering for much longer. Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s founder and CEO, is holding a keynote address at 4:30 PT tomorrow at CES and will undoubtedly be unveiling the RTX 50 series of GPUs. The flagship RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 will almost certainly get plenty of attention, but other RTX GPUs are expected to be revealed next week (likely in the same keynote) as well.

All this means that Intel’s Battlemage Arc B580 GPU, the midrange graphics processor that recently launched to glowing reviews, will have new pressure on it. Add to that how AMD could be launching its Radeon RX 8800 and/or RX 8600 at CES, and 2025 might be a killer year for the gamer community.

By the way, if you’re wondering what LAN 50 is, here’s the scoop: The online LAN party starts tomorrow, Jan. 4th at 4:30 PT (same time as Huang’s keynote) and runs for 50 hours. Nvidia has missions for gamers in Diablo IV, World of Warcraft, The Elder Scrolls Online, Fallout 76, and The Finals. Complete a mission, and you’ll receive an in-game reward, such as a mount, armor, or—the best possible reward, in our opinion—a dinosaur mask.