The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 may very well be with us even faster than anticipated, as a brand new leak tells us the forthcoming gaming GPU vary will likely be with us quickly. The brand new RTX 5000 graphics card lineup was initially anticipated to be unveiled on the CES tradeshow in January 2025, however it now appears to be like as if we might even get a glimpse of the brand new GPUs in 2024.
The brand new RTX 5090 is extensively anticipated to be the very best graphics card when Nvidia ultimately unleashes it out into the wild, with rumors that the brand new GPU will come geared up with an enormous 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM and 21,760 CUDA cores. Nonetheless, Nvidia has stored its lips sealed about any official launch date or announcement for this GPU to date, that means our solely sources are leaks and rumors proper now.
This newest rumor comes from common (and often-reliable) tech leaker kopite7kimi, who tells us that we “will meet GeForce of Blackwell quickly,” in a latest submit on X (previously Twitter). Blackwell is the most recent GPU structure from Nvidia, and it’s already used within the firm’s information middle GPUs, however it’s additionally anticipated to kind the muse of the forthcoming RTX 5000 gaming GPU lineup.
In fact, the definition of “quickly” is open to interpretation, and you could possibly argue that the already-rumored announcement at CES in January 2025 is already quickly. Nonetheless, as that’s nonetheless two months away, we’re hoping kopite7kimi is hinting at an announcement coming in 2024. Many others have requested for clarification on X, together with one other common tech leaker, Kepler_L2, who requested “Earlier than CES?” Nonetheless, kopite7kimi hasn’t replied, that means this assertion of “quickly” is all we’ve acquired proper now.
Nvidia does have kind for releasing just a few particulars of its new GPUs earlier than the complete launch date, nevertheless. For instance, the corporate first introduced the RTX 4090 again on September 20, 2022 on the GPU Know-how Convention (GTC), revealing the variety of CUDA cores, energy draw, and reminiscence of the brand new GPU, in addition to just a few particulars of two new RTX 4080 playing cards, however the full specs record was nonetheless stored underneath wraps.
The total particulars of the RTX 4090 weren’t launched till later, with the graphics card ultimately being launched on October 12, 2022. In that point, Nvidia additionally responded to criticism in regards to the naming of the lesser RTX 4080 12GB card, resulting in it being “unlaunched” by the corporate. The 16GB RTX 4080 then wasn’t launched till November 16, 2022, practically two months after the preliminary announcement.
As such, we might hope that Nvidia would possibly give us a taster of what’s to come back from the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 in 2024, with the complete particulars doubtlessly coming at CES. At this level, it appears unlikely that the brand new GPUs will likely be totally launched in 2024 in time for the vacation season, nevertheless.
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