The moment you’ve been waiting for: the leaked specs for NVIDIA’s upcoming Blackwell-powered gaming GPUs is now here courtesy of @kopite7kimi on X (Twitter). The flagship RTX 5090 in particular is looking to be extremely powerful based on the numbers, and the RTX 5080‘s alleged specs are corroborated as well.
RTX 5090 & RTX 5080 Specs
Starting with the flagship – the RTX 5090 will pack a massive GB202-300-A1 chip with 21,760 CUDA cores, 32GB of 512-bit GDDR7 RAM, and a power draw at 600W that will make most power supplies sweat. As for the RTX 5080, it’s getting a spec bump over its predecessor with 400W power draw, 10,752 CUDA cores (basically half the RTX 5090) from the smaller GB203-400-A1 silicon. Its VRAM is also halved from the RTX 5090, with just 16GB of 256-bit GDDR7 available.
As Videocardz noted, the GB202 silicon still has some headroom to go as the GB202 silicon has 24,576 cores natively; though the RTX 5080’s GB203 is the full silicon with all cores active. This means a hypothetical RTX 5080 SUPER will either have to simply upgrade on the memory specs, or use the larger and a significantly cut-down GB202 die derived from chips unqualified to be the RTX 5090.
Nothing is known for the launch date for the upcoming RTX 50 series, but the general consensus seems to agree that announcement should happen within this year (especially as the RTX 30 and 40 series debuted around this time). Don’t expect these cards to come cheap, as rival brands like AMD and Intel will not be competing against them.
Pokdepinion: I’m certainly not looking forward to the price.
