There is likely to be a ton of thrilling Intel Lunar Lake, Arrow Lake, and Ryzen AI 300 launches and bulletins proper now, however one can not help however really feel anticipation for a superb, old style graphics card launch. Nvidia’s RTX 50-series graphics playing cards are steadily approaching, and we’re now listening to they could possibly be introduced very quickly.
Chinese tech web site Benchlife studies that, if its sources are right, two next-gen Nvidia GPUs would possibly launch this month. According to a machine translation, Benchlife says, “If all goes properly, the GeForce RTX 5090/D and GeForce RTX 5080/D with the Blackwell GPU structure are scheduled to formally launch in September. If our sources are right, extra data will quickly be accessible on-line for reference.” (The “D” refers to variants for the Chinese market.)
This can be a lot earlier than what was beforehand anticipated to be a late-2024 or presumably early-2025 launch.Â
If Benchlife’s sources are dependable and an RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 are introduced this month, this might be shocking however not not possible. While Nvidia’s Blackwell server chips have been delayed, the buyer chips might be fully totally different to the server ones, which means 50-series GPUs is likely to be completely unaffected by this delay.
And whereas it is likely to be argued that an announcement is not a launch, it will even be unusual for Nvidia to announce these graphics playing cards lengthy earlier than they hit the market. The first RTX 40-series GPUs, for example, have been introduced at GTC in September 2022 and launched lower than a month later.
Announcement hypothesis apart, Benchlife additionally means that, seemingly based mostly on its manufacturing facility sources, the RTX 5090 ought to have a TGP of 550 W and the RTX 5080 ought to have a TGP of 350 W. This would put the 5090’s TGP 100 W greater than the 4090’s and the 5080’s TGP simply 30 W greater than the 4080’s. This 550 W TGP for the 5090 is not fairly the 600 W TGP that was rumoured of late.Â
Benchlife goes on to recommend such wattage might refer to not TGP (whole graphics energy) however to the “most warmth dissipation capabilities of the radiator,” which might make sense. It’s common for cooling to be examined and rated at greater wattages than the GPU TGP. That’s why it is doable to extend energy limits on some playing cards: as a result of the cooler can deal with a better TGP than the GPU’s default.
Experience tells me to take such energy consumption rumours with greater than a pinch of salt. If the rumoured impending announcement is true, I suppose we can’t have lengthy to attend to search out out for positive.
