It’s a known rumour that NVIDIA is planning on launching the next-generation GeForce RTX 50 Series this year, based on its latest Blackwell architecture. Recently, news has arisen about board partners anticipating the launch of said series happening as early as the fourth quarter of this year.
The news comes by way of the Chinese site Money UDN, which further speculates that the first two cards NVIDIA allegedly plans on launching are the RTX 5090 and a 5080. To that end, even prominent leakster kopite7kime (@kopite7kime) seems to agree with the supposed timeline. Below is the excerpt from the article, which has been translated through Google.
I joke you have rigth to speak about what you want, I'm just excited to know when Blackwell comes out, if you had to give a date what would you say? (this doesn't commit anything )
— Vorkzen 4 (@vorkzen) April 4, 2024
“Board card manufacturers expect that Huida’s latest RTX 50 series graphics cards will be unveiled in the fourth quarter. Initially, they will focus on top-end and high-end 5090 and 5080 product lines. The legal person is optimistic that the launch of Huida’s biennial GPU refresh will help board card manufacturers ship shipments this year and will drive up the average unit price (ASP) of graphics card products.”
Earlier reports have also suggested that NVIDIA’s upcoming RTX 50 Series graphics cards will be the first to launch using the new GDDR7 memory standard, with high-end models running at speeds of 28 Gbps on average but could hit frequencies of up to 32 Gbps. Of course, there is also the rumour that these cards could also be the first to support the PCIe 5.0 interface but at this point, it’s all hearsay.
(Source: Money UDN via Videocardz)
