The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 launch date could possibly be as quickly as Jan 21, 2025, in keeping with a brand new leak. This may imply the primary of the brand new Nvidia RTX 5000 sequence GPUs could possibly be winging its method to your door solely a few weeks after its anticipated announcement subsequent week.
Nvidia is believed to be saying its RTX 5000 sequence of playing cards on the CES 2025 commerce present in Las Vegas on January 6. Whereas the flagship of the vary is the extremely anticipated RTX 5090, it’s the RTX 5080 that’s believed to be the primary of the playing cards to change into accessible, and this new leak suggests consumers actually gained’t have lengthy to attend.
The leak comes from a now-removed publish on X (previously Twitter) from person @hkepcmedia, (through videocardz.com) who wrote merely “5080 -> 21 Jan.” Whereas this message isn’t explicitly saying the RTX 5080 launch date will probably be Jan 21, it’s cheap to interpret it this manner. No matter whether or not that was hkepcmedia’s intention or not, it’s after all nonetheless simply hypothesis, with no official phrase from Nvidia but.
As to after we can anticipate an official phrase, Nvidia is internet hosting the keynote convention that may kick off CES subsequent week, the place it’s broadly anticipated to be utilizing this platform to announce a spread of shopper graphics playing cards primarily based on its Blackwell GPU structure that it introduced again in March. That’s the identical core design as has been promoting within the tons of of hundreds to be used in AI information facilities, propelling the corporate to change into probably the most useful on the earth.
This new structure is predicted to push the flagship RTX 5090 to be round 50% sooner than the RTX 4090, with studies of the GPU consuming over 550W of energy. The RTX 5080, although, is predicted to be a extra modest improve with RTX 5080 specs leaks suggesting it can home 10,750 CUDA cores, which is only a few hundred greater than the ten,240 cores of the prevailing RTX 4080 Tremendous. As compared, the RTX 5090 is predicted to have 21,760, which is a giant improve over the 16,384 of the RTX 4090.
Whereas this will likely appear disappointing, an important new addition to those new playing cards is predicted to be GDDR7 VRAM, which gives considerably sooner information transfers. Together with attainable architectural enhancements, this might assist make sure the RTX 5080 is comfortably sooner than its present gen equivalents.
Whereas we look ahead to official phrase from Nvidia on its model new lineup, why not try our greatest graphics card information to search out out precisely what our high picks are proper now so that you’ll know the way they evaluate to the brand new fashions Nvidia pronounces. Additionally, you may try what we’re anticipating from AMD subsequent week too, with its RX 9000 sequence GPUs – together with the RX 9070 – additionally anticipated to get an official unveiling.
