Rumours have that NVIDIA is expected to finalise the design of its upcoming GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs by this month. To be clear, the rumour addresses the final design of the cards, and is not talking about its launch date.
According to Benchlife, NVIDIA supposedly has five designs already laid out, with the flagship RTX 5090 expected to consume somewhere between 550W and 600W. Not only that, but the RTX 5080 is also expected to be a 350W GPU but again, that’s still up in the air.
What Benchlife said is that 5080/D and 5090/D are scheduled to officially finalize the design in September, not officially launch in September. https://t.co/UIdvq5uuhp
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It is also worth mentioning that the current flagship, the RTX 4090 Founders Edition and its cooler, was designed to handle up to 600W. With the RTX 5090, speculators suggest that NVIDIA won’t be going too crazy with its cooling solution and may simply be a tweak over the existing design.
Also worth noting is that NVIDIA is also planning on launching an RTX 5080D, made specifically for the Chinese market, due to the ongoing US sanctions on China. The card is said to be approximately 10% faster than the RTX 4090, which again makes sense as to why the current US administration would want to limit its accessibility to the Asian powerhouse.
Once again, this bit of news is just hearsay at this point and given NVIDIA’s boilerplate answer on not commenting on unreleased and unfinished products, you’re going to watch to take this news with a healthy, if not liberal dousing of MSG.
(Source: Videocardz, Benchlife, MEGAsizeGPU via X)
