Tuesday, December 31st 2024
NVIDIA RTX 5000 Blackwell Memory Amounts Confirmed by Pre-Built PC Maker
By now, it's a surprise to almost nobody that NVIDIA plans to launch its next-generation RTX 5000-series "Blackwell" gaming graphics cards at the upcoming CES 2025 event in Las Vegas in early January. Previously, leaks and rumors gave us a full run-down of expected VRAM amounts and other specifications and features for the new GPUs, but these have yet to be confirmed by NVIDIA—for obvious reasons. Now, though, it looks as though iBuyPower has jumped the gun and prematurely revealed the new specifications for its updated line-up of pre-built gaming PCs with RTX 5000-series GPUs ahead of NVIDIA's official announcement. The offending product pages have since been removed, but they both give us confirmation of the previously leaked VRAM amounts and of the expected release cadence for RTX 5000, which will reportedly see the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5080 launch before the RTX 5090 flagship.
On iBuyPower's now-pulled pages, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB and GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB can be seen as the GPUs powering two different upcoming Y40 pre-built gaming PCs from the system integrator. The VRAM specifications here coincide with what we have previously seen from other leaked sources. Unfortunately, while an archived version of the page for the pre-built containing the RTX 5080 appears to show the design for an ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 5080 with a triple-fan cooler, it looks like iBuyPower is using the same renders for both the 5080 and 5070Ti versions of the pre-built PCs. What's also interesting is that iBuyPower looks to be pairing the next-gen GPUs with 7000-series AMD X3D CPUs, as opposed to the newly released AMD Ryzen 9000 X3D chips that have started making their way out into the market.
Sources:
iBuyPower (via Archive.org), iBuyPower (via Archive.org)
On iBuyPower's now-pulled pages, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB and GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB can be seen as the GPUs powering two different upcoming Y40 pre-built gaming PCs from the system integrator. The VRAM specifications here coincide with what we have previously seen from other leaked sources. Unfortunately, while an archived version of the page for the pre-built containing the RTX 5080 appears to show the design for an ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 5080 with a triple-fan cooler, it looks like iBuyPower is using the same renders for both the 5080 and 5070Ti versions of the pre-built PCs. What's also interesting is that iBuyPower looks to be pairing the next-gen GPUs with 7000-series AMD X3D CPUs, as opposed to the newly released AMD Ryzen 9000 X3D chips that have started making their way out into the market.
63 Comments on NVIDIA RTX 5000 Blackwell Memory Amounts Confirmed by Pre-Built PC Maker
5000+70-ti_S
so need to wait 5080Ti for extra Vram
But at this price the 5080 is only worth it if it has GB202 and 18K cores like a full AD102, maybe next year and that gets us closer to the 6080 and N2 node.
It's the continued existence of 8GB models north of $300, and 12GB (the bare minimum) being five Benjamins that is very concerning.
Also also, what a horrible next gen this is gonna be. Only 5090 seems good but god knows that card wont be for 99% of the gamers.
These 32GB cards aren't interesting from a memory standpoint, we always expected them to be at least 64GB models.
Unironically - yes. From the standpoint of “money for fun” you are absolutely a winner.Probably wouldn’t want to step on the toes of a much more expensive professional model. NV is usually very deliberate with their product stack segmentation.
That can't be right.
C'mon, Nvidia! There's so many zeros in your model names, use them for something! 5075 or something... Enough of the stupid, childish, nonsensical suffixes!
The RTX 5080 should have been a 320-bit card with 20GB VRAM.
This 5080 with 256-bit/16GB scam pulled by nVidia is actually the real 5070, while the 5070 Ti, is actually a 5060 Ti for the price of a 5080.
It is really sad that AMD abandoned the high end and Intel is... well... Intel. Real competition would keep the prices on sane levels...
The problem is that almost nobody calls them in. The so called tech influencers keep praising the company (naturally because of the big paycheck they received from them for good reviews), while unbiased tech sites don't emphasise enough those practises, afraid they will be taken out of the free samples for review or something...
Hands up anyone who desperately needs a 5090 right now because the 4090 isn't good enough. No one? I thought so. ;)Sure, Nvidia could give you more, but why would they? You would have a chance not to buy the 60x series when it coumes out. You wouldn't want that, would you? ;) /s
However atm, I see no reason to upgrade my 3080 card, since I can play absolutely all possible games right now without any issue. Only my vanity pushes me to upgrade, and that's to match the 100fps with my 100Hz monitor, from 50-60 fps I'm getting now with ultra details, including the overhyped RT....
Alan Wake 2, a 2023 game: 17.8 GB.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle have very high VRAM usage, even a 3080 10GB can't run it at max settings 1080p.
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora with unobtanium settings at 3440x1440 also uses 18/19 GB on a 4090.
For so expensive cards 16 GB is outrageous and DOA.
Vote with your wallet.