Rumor mill: There have been plenty of rumors and claims stating that Nvidia will launch the first of its RTX 5000-series Blackwell graphics cards this year. However, according to a prolific and usually reliable leaker, Team Green won't announce the next-gen GPUs until 2025.
With the AI revolution having pushed Nvidia into third place on the list of the world's most valuable companies, not to mention the Lovelace series being pretty disappointing overall, consumers eagerly anticipate what Blackwell will offer.
Some analysts and leakers have predicted that Nvidia will officially reveal the RTX 5000-series late this year, with the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 arriving ahead of the mid-range cards.
I think we won't see RTX 50 until CES.
– kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) July 22, 2024
Now, prolific leaker kopite7kimi has joined those who say the RTX 5000 cards won't get here until next year. There is good news, though: the leaker wrote in his X post that Nvidia will hold the unveiling event during CES 2025, which takes place between January 7 and January 10, so we won't have to wait very long into the new year for our first glimpse of Blackwell's gaming line.
All rumors should be taken with the required dose of salt, of course. However, Kopite7kimi wrote in November 2023 that the then-unreleased RTX 4000 Super cards would be unveiled during CES 2024. Sure enough, Nvidia took the lid off the GeForce RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, and RTX 4070 Super at a Special Address during the world's largest consumer electronics show on January 8.
Given how much money Nvidia is generating from its AI hardware, the company isn't going to be in a hurry to rush out the RTX 5000 series.
kopite7kimi has made several other predictions and claims about the Blackwell gaming series this year. He said the RTX 5080 will outperform the RTX 4090 and be the first in the series to launch. He added that the cards will be based on the GB202 and GB203 GPUs and use 28Gbps GDDR7 memory with a 512-bit interface. They're also said to be physically smaller than their predecessors. It remains to be seen whether they'll be more expensive.
Nvidia won't unveil GeForce RTX 5000 series cards until next year, leaker claims
