Nvidia's next-generation series of GPUs is an open secret, and just one month from CES 2025, the names and specs for these potentially great graphics cards are out in the open. In the latest leak, a graphics OEM has spoiled the names of the top five Nvidia cards, including Terrible RTX 5090. The top-end card in the codenamed Blackwell series can take up a ton of space inside your PC. At the same time, it requires enough juice to make your next itemized electrical bill as big as the card itself.
Card manufacturer Zotac has leaked SKUs for its next slate of Nvidia cards. VideoCardz was removed from the list of Google Search CSI tools before Zotac retrieved the results. The screenshots list the 5090 with 32GB of GDDR7 memory at the top end, confirming an 8GB increase from RTX 4090's 24 GB.
These cards are huge. The RTX 5090 is supposed to take up three to four slots on your motherboard. The current RTX 4090 requires three slots on most boards. That doesn't account for the length, though. Nvidia cards are also big power hogs. The manufacturer recommends the card with a PSU between 650W and 750W. Previous rumors have indicated that the card itself may have a 600W TGP. journalists Kotike7kimi, who usually has a good track record for GPU leaks, wrote on Twitter that the card may demand a little less than the total 600W. Either way, the 5080 is a bit more manageable, supposedly asking for 400W. The current RTX 4090 has 450W of total graphics power.
The Zotac leak shows five cards, including the GeForce RTX 5090, the RTX 5090D (a model made for the Chinese market), the RTX 5080, the RTX 5070 Ti, and the RTX 5070. If you're wondering where the 5060 or 5050 is, it's safe to assume they won't arrive at the same time as these higher-end cards. It's another matter if Nvidia will announce them at CES 2025 but later release them.
Beyond the need for a separate baby carriage inside your PC case to keep it from toppling your tower, the confirmed VRAM lends further credence to previous rumors that the 5090 will have 21,760 FP32 CUDA cores , more than double the number of RTX 4090.
We also want to hear from Nvidia itself why it decided to release the 5070 Ti "Titanium" edition together with the other cards. Nvidia usually drops these versions later as a sidegrade to existing GPUs, such as the 4070 Ti. Nvidia seems to be focusing on high-end GPUs, while leaving lower-end cards for later.
For budget builders, there isn't much room to hope that the low-end 50-series isn't expensive. There is very little going on with the 5060 or the supposed 5060 Ti. There are less announcements about any kind of RTX 5050. Intel just released it budget card like B580with claims that it can beat the RTX 4060 in most games, and it has 12GB of VRAM. So far, rumors indicate that the non-Ti 5060 may have 8GB.
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