Nvidia is reportedly planning to launch its new Blackwell lineup of gaming GPUs with the GeForce RTX 5080 later this 12 months, moderately than beginning with the RTX 5090, based on a distinguished tech leaker. This fully contradicts earlier studies that the RTX 5090 could be the one Nvidia Blackwell gaming graphics card to launch this 12 months, however it’s not unprecedented – Nvidia did, in spite of everything, launch the RTX 3080 earlier than the RTX 3090 as effectively, and the RTX 2080 got here out earlier than the 2080 Ti too.
Nevertheless, Nvidia modified its technique when it launched the GeForce RTX 4090 again in 2022 and, regardless of its hefty price ticket, this GPU has reigned supreme as the very best graphics card ever since. Launching your strongest GPU first actually makes an announcement, exhibiting off the total capabilities of your new structure, however the newest leak means that Nvidia is reverting to its earlier technique of bringing out its 80-series card first.
This newest leak comes from kopite7kimi, who rebutted a submit on X (previously Twitter) by TechPowerUp reporting on a rumor from Moore’s Regulation is Lifeless that solely the RTX 5090 will be launched in 2024. “It’s not ture [true],” replies kopite7kimi, “RTX 5080 ought to be launched first.”
In fact, none of this has been confirmed by Nvidia, and we solely have one leaker’s phrase in opposition to one other, however kopite7kimi has good kind on this space. Again in December 2022, for instance, kopite7kimi nailed all of the tech particulars of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070, almost 4 months earlier than its eventual launch date in April 2023.
In the meantime, the reliability of a few of Moore’s Regulation is Lifeless’s sources have been referred to as into query after the YouTube channel printed a presentation slide detailing AMD’s Zen 5 CPU structure, which later turned out to be a pretend planted by SquashBionic.
Both method, take all of this with a pinch of salt in the intervening time, as we gained’t know for positive when the RTX 5080 or 5090 will come out till Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang provides us the large reveal (most likely from his kitchen). Little is thought in regards to the specs but, however it’s anticipated that the RTX 5080 can be faster at ray tracing than the RTX 4090, and that it’ll additionally use GDDR7 reminiscence.
Within the meantime, if you happen to’re searching for a robust 4K gaming graphics card, however can’t run to the price of the RTX 4090, take a look at our RTX 4080 Tremendous evaluate, the place we put Nvidia’s newest high-end GPU via its paces.
