There has been a real buzz surrounding whether or not Nvidia will release any new next-generation Blackwell (GeForce RTX 5000) graphics cards this year. The latest rumors suggest that we should see the desktop GeForce RTX 5090 this year, and maybe longer.
First seen in Checking the notebookthe YouTuber Moore’s law is dead revealed that its sources claim that Nvidia is hard at work on a new line of desktop and laptop GPUs that could launch as early as Q4 2024. However, even those sources are unsure when each card will launch and if some will be delayed until 2025.
In a video released this week, Moore’s Law claims that the RTX 5090 will launch in early Q4 2024, suggesting it could ship around October. However, one of their sources claimed that the GeForce RTX 5000 laptop GPUs are “1-2 months behind schedule,” so we may not deliver any of the laptop cards until 2025.
That’s quite credible, given that Nvidia has made similar staggered releases of new GPUs in the past. If things go the way Nvidia’s launch of the GeForce RTX 4000 GPUs did, then we won’t see the laptop variant of these rumored GeForce RTX 5000 graphics cards until March or April 2025.
These GPUs could be announced at the annual Computex event, the giant computer exhibition held in Taipei, Taiwan. This year’s iteration begins June 3. They could also offer significant performance, as leakers report that the high-end GeForce RTX 5000 GPU models for laptops and desktops will come with GDDR7 memory and PCIe Gen 5 support. In layman’s terms, they could be significantly faster and efficient than even the RTX 4000 series.
However, we haven’t heard any word on how Nvidia handles power consumption and temperature. The RTX 4000 chips are considered quite power efficient and hopefully the company will be able to keep up with that pace with these new GPUs.
Of course, there’s also the possibility that the 5090 and 5080 chips could be delayed until 2025 due to Nvidia’s big push into AI. The GPU maker has downplayed NPUs (neural processing units like those found in Intel Meteor Lake and Apple M3 chips) and is working to make its GPUs capable of deeper AI learning. That focus on AI could easily distract the company from the race to bring its next-generation gaming GPUs to the world.
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