Wednesday, October 9th 2024
NVIDIA Tunes GeForce RTX 5080 GDDR7 Memory to 32 Gbps, RTX 5070 Launches at CES
NVIDIA is gearing up for an exciting showcase at CES 2025, where its CEO, Jensen Huang, will take the stage and talk about, hopefully, future "Blackwell" products. According to Wccftech's sources, the anticipated GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 graphics cards should arrive at CES 2025 in January. The flagship RTX 5090 is rumored to come equipped with 32 GB of GDDR7 memory running at 28 Gbps. Meanwhile, the RTX 5080 looks very interesting with reports of its impressive 16 GB of GDDR7 memory running at 32 Gbps. This advancement comes after we previously believed that the RTX 5080 model is going to feature 28 Gbps GDDR7 memory. However, the newest rumors suggest that we are in for a surprise, as the massive gap between RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 compute cores will be filled... with a faster memory.
The more budget-friendly RTX 5070 is also set for a CES debut, featuring 12 GB of memory. This card aims to deliver solid performance for gamers who want high-quality graphics without breaking the bank, targeting the mid-range segment. We are very curious about pricing of these models and how they would fit in the current market. As anticipation builds for CES 2025, we are eager to see how these innovations will impact gaming experiences and creative workflows in the coming year. Stay tuned for more updates as the event approaches!
Sources:
Wccftech, via VideoCardz
The more budget-friendly RTX 5070 is also set for a CES debut, featuring 12 GB of memory. This card aims to deliver solid performance for gamers who want high-quality graphics without breaking the bank, targeting the mid-range segment. We are very curious about pricing of these models and how they would fit in the current market. As anticipation builds for CES 2025, we are eager to see how these innovations will impact gaming experiences and creative workflows in the coming year. Stay tuned for more updates as the event approaches!
112 Comments on NVIDIA Tunes GeForce RTX 5080 GDDR7 Memory to 32 Gbps, RTX 5070 Launches at CES
5080 10752 ~~ $1200
5090 21760 ~~ $2200
5080 Ti 28 GB in Q3 2025.
(fyi, I prefer chocolate chip, or even peanut butter !) Well, the thing is AI, and AI is the thing, which is and is not you, so your assumption(s) do not compute & therefore are completely invalid :D
Nvidia, then bigger number better. In that order. Titan has no numbers last time I checked.
Also AI is infinitely more lucrative right now than the pleb gaming market yet Nvidia still dominates in the gaming gpu market because there is no real competition regardless of the crumbs they send our way. To me it seems the 90 class has been much more successful than the Titan Class so I doubt they will give up that naming, could I see them turning what should be an 80 class gpu and naming it XX90 whatever sure though. Basically with what they did last generation shifting everything up a tier in naming except arguable the 4090....
Imho it will last longer than cryptmining craze, or simply we will just adjust to it being always around same like smartphones never went away or internet.
Unless Skynet happens, but that's sci-fi, right?! ;) :D
My 2080 Ti never gets to use more than 6 GB any way, performance is too low. So my expectation is that 4080 cant possibly need more than 12 even with the DLSSFG shenanigans of 500% boost. We are approaching the ideal of the golden ratio, where each next tier is 60% faster. It's actually not bad.
As for the 5080 I'll wait for 24GB variant undoubtedly coming as the 5080 Super (Ti). With AI upscaling on 61MP images it's easy to fully utilise more than 16GB. My 6800XT is maxxed out and my old 2080 Super can't even handle the 2x upscale, as it lacks enough memory. Until AMD releases 8800XT at $550-600 with 7900XT-7900XTX beating performance at much lower power. 8800XT is ready to go, AMD just needs to sell off huge stocks of 7900's that no one wants.
Looks like the only ones I'll be getting going forward are some of those interesting ones I have seen and purchased off of Aliexpress.
(I swear, I can stop buying Aliexpress cards at any time, honest.) RTX 2080ti with 22gb of ram can be had for $484, shipped to your door. I am debating whether to get one of these for Stable Diffusion.
So what is it? You can be sure they'll have leveled a performance increase just enough. So the 5070 will be slightly better than the 4070S *at something (take your pick: RT, AI, and/or a slight generation increase)* and replace its pricepoint (+50$) or something like that. The 4070S will see a price drop by mid 2025 to 4070 pricepoint, which will take most of 6 months before it even starts to show when you're regularly browsing prices, by which time you'll be a couple months away from the next gen. The 4070 will be evacuated OR will become the "5060Ti" as is or something along those lines depending on how nVidia needs to target a pricepoint with "old" performance. This leaves ample space to make a 5070S or a 6070, as they'll see best, with 16GB vRAM. Perhaps it will even become a ping-ping-pong just like Intel once upon a time went from tick-tock to tick-tick-tock,
By then nVidia will have calculated the market shares of each Blackwell line and will have come up, as needed, with a 5070Ti, a 5080Ti, a real 5060Ti, or will wait for the next gen to just upgrade each the 70 and 80 as a Super/Ti edition. If anything I would figure either the "Ti" editions for any card might be eventually evacuated, or that they'll launch "Ti"s a little early on a following Super gen and play with prices so that it fits the market shares with just the minimal expense (again take your pick, could be vRAM, could be frequency increase, could be better RT or AI implementation, or of course opening a specific chip in full, and/or a bit of all of these).
As of now nVidia seems to make a point of offering "about" as many lines as in the past, but we can also see how they're skipping on their "traditional" array of cards in the mid/high end so that there is less of them to compare with/upgrade to, but also that each of them is a significant step into leveling or improving market shares still. It's difficult to see an obvious trend in where they decide that a line should come up or be skipped for any gen around, but one thing for sure is that they do re-use any lines they have in waits strictly as needed instead of feeling obligated to make them all within six months of a launch. I don't believe they will strictly follow any trend neither. I mean, all they need to do now is to have a next gen offering with the slightest step-up and see how it goes until they can suck up some money with any next series or upcoming Ti as they feel is needed to fullfil their intended margins AND just not lose a single necessary step in scraping all of the available extra for a similar cost ratio.
They'll start to throw all they've got in for a couple of gens when/if AMD or Intel make any significant threathening leap. I hoped they would do it now while they can achieve and secure a definitive step-up in performance, and I guess they would have if their market share wasn't so dominating already, but as it stands they do not need to do anything much but ensure the xx90 card will reign supreme for about two years, which isn't very difficult to achieve when they have created and gained complete control over a market where any other consumer card they make is basically just skimming some performance increase, and where there is no direct competition to be had anyhow.
Also nasty TDP regression, feel I did right not waiting.
Take a £800 320w 4080 super over a £1200 400w 5080.
Anyone interested in 5000 series wait for super cards at least they improve value. When I removed Nvidias underclock on my VRAM there was no measurable performance improvement. I be surprised if it has a big effect, I feel Nvidia push out faster VRAM mainly for specs looking better, helps justify their prices. Seen many 4090s with memory bandwidth utilisation under 50% when their core is at 99%.
Price makes or breaks it, and I genuinely think this shouldn't cost more than $900 to get an unreserved recommendation from me.