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 Unfortunately, while an archived version of the page for the pre-built containing the RTX 5080 appears to show the design for an ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 5080 with a triple-fan cooler, it looks like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 Unfortunately, while an archived version of the page for the pre-built containing the RTX 5080 appears to show the design for an ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 5080 with a triple-fan cooler, it looks like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
Also, I've bought too much PC hardware in recent years, I want to slow down a bit, and plan something long-term for a change. :)
They are not giving more than 16 GB VRAM because they don't want people running LLMs/AI art generators/training AI locally on these cards ---> those capacities are for Quadros etc which are I dont even wanna know how much these days. They obviously want to sell them very expensive but if they had 32-64 GB cards for reasonable prices companies would buy them in bulk for AI training and we would be back to where we were when everyone was mining on GPUs in their basements...
We know that they are not giving because they are cutting corners and because of the greed.
Again, stop being brainwashed by all those stupid youtube videos and crappy articles. Just test the game yourself.
And again, for the millionth time, the game engines cache almost all VRAM, but that doesn't mean it uses all.
Stop believing all this retarded propaganda and just verify, if possible, by yourself.
Actually, even the TPU has very good benchmarks where all those top hungry games are tested. It's all here.
GTX 980 - 256bit bus
GTX 1080 - 256bit bus
RTX 2080/2080Super - 256bit bus
RTX 3080 - 320bit bus
RTX 4080 - 256bit bus
RTX 5080 - 256bit bus
You can cleary see that 8GB is indeed not enough here anymore but there is no difference on a 12GB card and a 24 GB card which means that while it is allocating 18GB when available it does not in fact need more than 12 GB
was 7900xtx supposed to be a 7600xt then ?
It doesn't matter. You can make the leather jacket guy even richer, while I enjoy my games for another 2 or 3 years, while spending my money on a nice holiday or something, instead of wasting it on some overpriced hardware.
Very fast forgot the 4080-12 ?
You could at least give your 5070Ti Super 20GB, same for the 5080Ti, for the 5080 Ti Super, 24GB. You know it takes a lot for me to start hating someone, but you Jensen, I hate, a lot.
via dramexchange website prices are sub 3$ per 8gb.
I also found that "With current-gen GDDR6 expected to get cheaper by 8-13%, while next-gen GDDR7 likely to become cheaper by max 5%. But don’t expect graphics cards makers like Nvidia and AMD to give that benefit to the consumers. For two reasons. They (Nvidia) want to keep their high profit margins and two, they have likely signed a long time deal with VRAM makers. Means price decrease of graphics cards will only follow the usual trends, not anything unusual.The reason for all this is simple, lesser demand of computers, mobiles, notebooks and datacenters worldwide. This has ensured that the prices go down everywhere."
conclusion: vote with your wallet 2025 edition
Honestly the only issue with the 4080 was it's price.... Even 50% more expensive than the 3080 would have been a massive improvement over the 70% it ended up being it did allow the 7900XTX the real 6800 successor to be priced like a 6900XT though lol...
This is why Nvidia has such a high gaming GPU market share. All of their GPUs are gaming GPUs now. Technically...