The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is seemingly set to hit the shelves on 21 January this year. The alleged date was shared by the Hong Kong-based media outlet, HKEPC via its official X account.
The post (already taken down, by the by), simply shared the RTX 5080 designation with the alleged availability date, and nothing else. We already know that NVIDIA will be announcing the card, along with the rest of the RTX 50 Series, at its CES 2025 keynote, scheduled to take place on 6 January (7 January for us).
Earlier rumours have suggested that the RTX 5080 will be built around the GB203 GPU, and have up to 12,288 CUDA Cores. They also suggest that the card will ship out with either 16GB or 20GB of GDDR7 memory, running on a 256-bit memory bus, and probably have a 400W TDP.
One thing that can be said about rumours surrounding the RTX 5080 is that they have been consistent with its supposed launch window – the card is expected to launch well before the RTX 5090, an indication that NVIDIA is following its formula for the RTX 30 Series, which launched with the RTX 3080 taking the helm back in 2020.
(Source: HKEPC, Videocardz)
