With lower than one month earlier than CES 2025, Nvidia has dropped the primary teaser for its upcoming RTX 50 household of GPUs – using the Blackwell structure. According to rumors, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is ready to take the stage and drop the curtains on the next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs on January sixth at 6:30 PM PT. Additionally, on the TGA (The Recreation Awards) 2024. a cinematic trailer for the upcoming Witcher IV was unveiled, and mentioned to be rendered on an unannounced RTX 50 GPU – doubtless the RTX 5090.
Nvidia has kicked off a brand new “GeForce Hype Meter” social media marketing campaign, from now till Jensen’s keynote subsequent month. Stamped with an eerily acquainted “the extra you interact, the higher it will get” slogan, customers are urged to take part by interacting with their posts for particular prizes. To heat up players for the RTX 50 unveil, Nvidia is bringing again GeForce LAN dubbed “GeForce LAN 50” beginning January 4th at 4:30 PM PT – 50 representing the variety of hours earlier than the keynote and nicely, the RTX 50 collection.
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CD Projekt additionally hinted at Nvidia’s RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs at The Recreation Awards final night time. The footnote at first of the trailer for Witcher IV reads, “Cinematic trailer pre-rendered in Unreal Engine 5 on an unannounced Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU”, and it would not take a lot to deduce that this alludes to the upcoming RTX 5090.
Blackwell ought to supply a number of enhancements over Ada Lovelace throughout gaming, productiveness, and AI acceleration. Akin to its server counterpart, we might even see native assist for FP4 and FP6 knowledge varieties on the Tensor cores and higher ray-tracing capabilities. Nvidia is prone to leverage TSMC’s 4NP (5nm-grade) node for Blackwell desktop – which is 30% denser than 4N if we go by server-class Blackwell merchandise (B100/B200).
Going over the specs, the RTX 5090 will make use of the GB202 GPU mentioned to be Nvidia’s largest consumer-grade chip since 2018 with 170-enabled SMs (out of 192 in complete) or 21,760 CUDA cores. As well as, leaks level towards 32GB of GDDR7 reminiscence and a big 512-bit interface because the RTX 5090 is anticipated to guzzle virtually 600W of energy. The GB203-powered RTX 5080 might need a die measurement lower than half that of the RTX 5090 with simply 84 SMs or 10,752 CUDA cores, and 16GB of reminiscence although the ability ranking nonetheless stands sturdy at 400W – simply in time to maintain you cozy all through winter.
Rumors allege that the RTX 50 household will debut with the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 in January. The RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti are anticipated to launch in February adopted by the RTX 5060 collection in April. Because it stands, now we have no data concerning the pricing construction of those GPUs so it’s best to attend for the official reveal.
