Nvidia's upcoming RTX 50-series graphics cards are undoubtedly going to rival some of the best GPUs based on the rumors so far.
Nvidia already makes some of the best graphics cards , but it’s also not resting on its laurels. Although the RTX 40-series, which has been bolstered by a refresh, is still somewhat recent, Nvidia is also working on its next-gen GPU s from the RTX 50-series.
Nvidia is also said to be scaling back its production of RTX 40-series cards by as much as 50%, as per UDN, a Taiwanese financial news publication. If this is true, it certainly indicates that RTX 50 cards might be right around the corner, but then, we’ve heard many rumors that contradict that theory.
According to the report, Nvidia is getting ready to launch the RTX 5090 first in the final quarter of 2024, followed by the RTX 5080 a few weeks later. This mirrors the approach in the RTX 40-series, where the RTX 4090 hit the shelves first, followed by the RTX 4080 shortly after. The more budget-friendly graphics cards only came out early the next year, which is what might happen this time around, too.
The release of the Blackwell B200 GPU threw a wrench into the 3nm rumor. The B200, made for high-performance computing and data center use cases, is built on a TSMC 4NP node. If the B200 uses a 4NP node, it’s easy to imagine that the consumer lineup might do the same. However, it’s not a given — Nvidia might use the 3nm node for its RTX 50 lineup instead.
The maximum bus width of Blackwell has been a very contentious topic among popular leakers, so it’s hard to know what’s true. However, one thing that they all agree on is that Nvidia will use the new GDDR7 memory standard, which AMD is said not to be using in its upcoming RDNA 4 lineup. Rumored specs So, what can we expect from the RTX 50-series in terms of actual specifications? What you’re seeing in the table above is what’s often being referred to as rumored specs, but that’s what we’re working off — rumors. Please take all of the following with a healthy dose of skepticism.
I think GB203 is half of GB202, just like GB102 and GB100. But I don't know if GB202 has a multi chip package. If the RTX 5090 really turns out as beastly as it seems, many would expect a behemoth of a card, but rumor has it that the RTX 5090 will only feature a dual-slot design in the Founders Edition. That’d be a shocking change from the current generation, where the RTX 4090 can take up to four slots.
The company was, unfortunately, recently hit by a ransomware attack that resulted in some confidential slides being shared online. According to the slides, Nvidia will launch six mobile GPUs, but they’re all set to launch no sooner than 2025. It’s also implied that Nvidia will not be retiring its older low-end GPUs. The RTX 4050, RTX 3050, and even the RTX 2050 will continue appearing in laptops.
The first curious part is that the enterprise version of Blackwell is built on TSMC’s 4NP node, which is actually a 5nm process. Previous rumors indicated that the RTX 50-series might be built on a 3nm process, but that now seems quite unlikely, given the recent announcement. Moreover, the B200 GPU comes with a dedicated decompression engine. While there’s no telling if that will make it to the consumer GPUs, it could bring a major boost to the graphics cards.
Unfortunately, a recent update from the same YouTuber revealed that Nvidia won’t be using an MCM design in Blackwell. Reportedly, Nvidia initially planned to use dual GB202 dies glued together, possibly with some SMs cut, but ultimately decided against it. The YouTuber remarked that issues such as high prices, the latency between the two dies, and various difficulties in getting it to work made Nvidia stick to its previous architecture.
According to Moore’s Law Is Dead, the performance uplift between Ada and Blackwell may not be major. The YouTuber’s source mentioned that “Blackwell’s rasterization uplift over Ada will not be as impressive as Ampere to Ada.” However, the source also said that Nvidia could make the RTX 5090 feel like a similar uplift “if it felt threatened.
The YouTuber also stressed that Nvidia’s focus was heavily on ray tracing and path tracing, with up to a 2.5x boost in those workloads. Again, approach all of this information with some skepticism.
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