Monday, July 22nd 2024
NVIDIA GeForce "Blackwell" Won't Arrive Before January 2025?
It appears like 2024 will go down as the second consecutive year without any new GPU generation launch from either NVIDIA or AMD. Kopite7kimi, a reliable source with NVIDIA leaks, says that the GeForce RTX 50-series "Blackwell" generation won't see a debut before the 2025 International CES (January 2025). It was earlier expected that the company would launch at least its top two SKUs—the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080—toward the end of 2024, and ramp the series up from 2025. There is no explanation behind this "delay." Like everyone else, NVIDIA could be rationing its foundry allocation of the 3 nm wafers from TSMC for its high-margin "Blackwell" AI GPUs. The company now makes over five times the revenue from selling AI GPUs than it does from gaming GPUs, so this development should come as little surprise.
Things aren't any different with NVIDIA's rivals in this space, AMD and Intel. AMD's RDNA 4 graphics architecture and the Radeon RX series GPUs based on it, aren't expected to arrive before 2025. AMD is making several architectural upgrades with RDNA 4, particularly to its ray tracing hardware; and the company is expected to build these GPUs on a new foundry node. Meanwhile, Intel's Arc B-series gaming GPUs based on the Xe2 "Battlemage" graphics architecture are expected to arrive in 2025, too, although these chips are rumored to be based on a more mature 4 nm-class foundry node.
Sources:
kopite7kimi (Twitter), Videocardz
Things aren't any different with NVIDIA's rivals in this space, AMD and Intel. AMD's RDNA 4 graphics architecture and the Radeon RX series GPUs based on it, aren't expected to arrive before 2025. AMD is making several architectural upgrades with RDNA 4, particularly to its ray tracing hardware; and the company is expected to build these GPUs on a new foundry node. Meanwhile, Intel's Arc B-series gaming GPUs based on the Xe2 "Battlemage" graphics architecture are expected to arrive in 2025, too, although these chips are rumored to be based on a more mature 4 nm-class foundry node.
26 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce "Blackwell" Won't Arrive Before January 2025?
(Fully expecting the new generation will arrive with a side of price hike.)
Probably need an Nvidia next gen by then.
I wish the smart phones companies would do the same, a new phone every 2 or 3 years instead of yearly cycle. Especially when you see the entitled shipple Apple cultists buying every year basically the same exact phone, with minor "improvements". Not that Samsung, Google or the Chinese companies are not doing the same....
It should become clearer what the purpose of RTX is, got to try and develop features to make upgrading worthwhile.
Raster rendering is conquered, essentially and a lot of the money in gaming is now on the mobile side where even 10 year old technology is ok?
That and the games I'm playing nowadays don't exactly require a faster card for my standards + I actually like DLSS so I don't mind using that either.
I also have like a lot of games in my backlog along with gamepass and all of those can be played just fine with this so yeh I can wait.:)
Though odds are, they will miss it just like they missed Alchemist release date by some years.
I'm on holidays and playing at my moms laptop, equipped with a Ryzen 4600H and 1650Ti 4GB.
If you want to play a game, you can. That's why we have PCs and not bloody consoles. Adjust the settings and enjoy.
Just tell me what node it's on. I can wait. Time for N3 on the GPU side as well as the CPU.
No new cards, no gaming, no sales, declining revenues, exit of certain market segments, bankruptcy.
Also no DP2.1.... Its 2024 and soon 2025, you gotta be crazy to buy an old card.Yea, if not by 2027 (or even later)... we really don't know. GTA 5 is a scary reminder after all.
They want you to game on 1500$ cards at 1080p with lowered settings. :kookoo: