NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 "Blackwell" GPU Appears During Factory Boot-Up

[AleksandarK]

We officially have the first look at NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 "Blackwell" add-in board from what appears to be ZOTAC manufacturing facility. The leaked video shows a newly opened factory in Indonesia, which is recently opened-up to circumvent US export regulations. Published on Chiphell platform, the factory video shows NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 AIB design powering up, followed by cheering of factory workers. This signals that the alleged NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series scheduled for CES is near indeed, and AIB designs are also going to be available around that timeframe.

To confirm that the video is indeed showing GeForce RTX 5090, the video description, translated from Chinese, is as follows: "Due to the US's chip export control on China, graphics card chips with performance equal to or higher than 4090 are prohibited from being exported to mainland China. In order to avoid the impact of this move on the launch of RTX 5090, Bo Neng urgently built a factory in Batam, Indonesia. The video shows the debugging of the factory production line. The graphics card that lights up the monitor in the video is the NVIDIA RTX 5090 graphics card that will be launched soon." Although the video is quite blurry, we have to wait for the official launch or more leaks to see the GPU in its full glory.


Update 13:20 UTC: ZOTAC officially clarified that the card is not an RTX 5090, but rather an RTX 4070 Ti SUPER SOLID. The factory is indeed a new facility in Indonesia, but it is not producing NVIDIA's upcoming GPU, as we initially believed. Here is ZOTAC's full statement:

Over the last two days, we have noticed inaccurate speculation circulating regarding a rumored new graphics card product allegedly being manufactured by ZOTAC. We wish to seize this opportunity to provide clarification that the product showcased in the associated video source is, in fact, an existing product currently in production known as the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER SOLID.

The video that has gone viral online pertains to an internal training recording of a trial production run at our facility in Indonesia, intended to test the performance of newly installed production equipments.

We reserve our right to claim against any unfounded speculation.

The ZOTAC Team

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[TumbleGeorge]

Despite the assurances, can anyone measure how big this card is from the picture? Now, it might be because of the perspective, but it looks really huge to me.

 

[lepudruk]

Despite the assurances, can anyone measure how big this card is from the picture? Now, it might be because of the perspective, but it looks really huge to me.

Well, its Zotac we're talking about - they make them big, you know? For instance, their 4090s were about 356 mm long while MSI Suprims were 336 mm. Those were real bricks.
Now, this GPU on the picture - I really don't know if it's bigger then it's predecessor. Assuming those are standarised 95 mm fans I would say it actualy might be smaller then 4090, like 325-335 mm (340 tops).
Ofc unless Zotac applied some bigger fans this time..

 

[Caring1]

I'm going to say just over 400mm long, maybe 410

 

[Dirt Chip]

Too much big for me.

 

[jonny2772]

Despite the assurances, can anyone measure how big this card is from the picture? Now, it might be because of the perspective, but it looks really huge to me.

Gonna go on a very vague "enhance" moment, but this kinda looks like the IO bracket...? I think we can figure a rough size from it if it is.

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[TumbleGeorge]

O, yes this is really huge card.

the IO bracket

 

[N/A]

IO bracked is not fully fisible, besides it doesn't look like triple slot to me, dual slot.

 

[lepudruk]

IO bracked is not fully fisible, besides it doesn't look like triple slot to me, dual slot.

The only thing that is fully visible are the fans. So unless they are bigger then the usual 95 mm size I wouldn't say that this GPU is longer then 4090s were.
105 mm (fan with frames) x3 = 315 mm plus gpu front frame (4x 5 mm?) That makes around 335 mm in total.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Chinese import embargo.
The Chinese:

 

[Ferrum Master]

It is some sort of canon using almost worst possible soap quality phone camera for inside factory shots?

 

[TheDeeGee]

IO bracked is not fully fisible, besides it doesn't look like triple slot to me, dual slot.

The shroud clearly goes past the IO bracket, it's triple slot.

 

[Han44]

The only thing that is fully visible are the fans. So unless they are bigger then the usual 95 mm size I wouldn't say that this GPU is longer then 4090s were.
105 mm (fan with frames) x3 = 315 mm plus gpu front frame (4x 5 mm?) That makes around 335 mm in total.

The Taichi Rx7900xtx is 350 mm long, so this monster is probably bigger.

 

[mab1376]

Is it confirmed that it will require a 4x8-pin?

 

[lepudruk]

Is it confirmed that it will require a 4x8-pin?

It's been already said that Nvidia 5xxx serie will use 12V-2x6 socket.

 

[GerKNG]

 

[Vayra86]

IO bracked is not fully fisible, besides it doesn't look like triple slot to me, dual slot.

I'd weigh it at 2,5 slot there, some shroud is coming out from under the bracket.

 

[Dragokar]

Haha all the AI and people get fooled by a bad image xD

 

[mab1376]

It's been already said that Nvidia 5xxx serie will use 12V-2x6 socket.

The other side of that cable where it connects to the psu can use 2-4 8 pin connections.

 

[Franzen4Real]

Are headlines ever revised once they are confirmed to be completely false and fabricated??
Also, I'd be interested in more information confirming that Zotac is in fact building factories specifically to skirt U.S. export regulations. I did a search here but it didn't bring anything up, and Google just resulted in this same article from all of the other click farmers. Would it be possible to make that statement in the article a link to the original source or report?

 

[Kadath]

It is some sort of canon using almost worst possible soap quality phone camera for inside factory shots?

You can also see BigFoot walking in the background.

 

[W1zzard]

Are headlines ever revised once they are confirmed to be completely false and fabricated??

That's a great question, it's so rare that we don't have a policy for this case.

What do you propose?

Just deleting the post is a bad idea, because there has been so much user commenting activity, also it doesn't give Zotac a chance to make things right and share their message.

 

[Chrispy_]

Folks, this is pre-production silicon, they're just testing their PCB - that's not the final 5090 cooler or dimensions.

With near-certainty that is just an existing cooler from either their 3090 or 4080/4090 lineup that happened to fit this PCB for testing.

Ah, never mind, I read below the break and yeah the update confirms it.

Honestly, you guys should know from previous decades of Nvidia GPU leaks - we know that the final retail cooler design rarely surfaces until a few weeks before the embargo lift.

 

[Dawora]

5090 will be the king, long life the king

 

[Ruru]

Luckily Corsair released the 9000D case recently.