Rumors have suggested that Nvidia will unveil some next-generation RTX 50 series graphics cards at CES in January. And as we get closer to that date, Nvidia partners and some of the PC makers have inadvertently started leaking card details.
Based on recent leaks from Zotac and Acer, it appears that Nvidia plans to announce four new GPUs next month, all at the high end of its lineup: RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070 were briefly listed on Zotac's website. , as detected by VideoCardz. There is also an RTX 5090D variant for the Chinese market, the specifications of which will presumably be modified to comply with current US export restrictions on high-performance GPUs.
While the Website leak didn't confirm many specs, it did include that the RTX 5090 includes 32GB of GDDR7, an upgrade from the 4090's 24GB of GDDR6X. An Acer spec sheet for the new Predator Orion desktops also lists 32 GB of GDDR7 for the 4090, as well as 16 GB of GDDR7 for the RTX 5080. This is the same amount of RAM included with the RTX 4080 and 4080 Super.
The 5090 will be a big deal when it launches because no graphics card released since October 2022 has come close to surpassing the performance of the 4090. Nvidia's early 2024 Super update for some 40-series cards did not include a 4090 Super , and AMD's flagship RX 7900 XTX card feels more comfortable competing with cards like the 4080 and 4080 Super. The 5090 isn't a card most people are going to buy, but for the performance-obsessed, it's the first high-end performance upgrade the GPU market has seen in over two years.