NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Will Be The First RTX 50 Series Offering, Leaker Claims

In response to TechPowerUp’s report citing Moore’s Law Is Dead claiming RTX 5090 will be the only GPU launched within this year, Kopite7kimi – one of the most prominent leakers of GPUs – has gone on record to state that this is incorrect. Instead, the leaker claims RTX 5080 will be the first GPU set to launch under the RTX 50 series banner.

As of this writing, NVIDIA has not made any announcements relating to its next-gen consumer GPU. That said, it is fairly well known at this point that the RTX 50 series will use Blackwell architecture, which was revealed earlier this year for datacenter products. Still, several leaks have been floating around the tech circles which provide clues on the specs of upcoming GPUs from Team Green.

In the case of RTX 5080, it is expected that this GPU will feature GB203 silicon, featuring up to 96 Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs) amounting to 12,288 CUDA cores. For reference, the RTX 4090 today features 16,384 cores, so Blackwell will require significant improvements in power efficiency to match the performance of the flagship Ada Lovelace GPU. Meanwhile, the Blackwell flagship is expected to feature as many as 192 SMs, with over 24,000 CUDA cores on tap.

Leaks thus far are pointing to the Q4 2024 launch – as we’re soon approaching Computex 2024, we can reasonably expect new information to be revealed in the upcoming keynote by the chipmaker this June.

Source: Videocardz

Pokdepinion: Maybe RTX 5090 may end up launching in 2025 instead?