Rumor mill: We have heard a number of rumors concerning Nvidia’s RTX 5000 Blackwell sequence of graphics playing cards, however one ingredient that’s mild on particulars is the pricing. A latest declare concerning the RTX 5090 said that it could value near $2,500, however a extra dependable leaker says that is unfaithful. In accordance with their prediction, the flagship’s worth enhance over the RTX 4090 will not be important.
It was introduced final week that Nvidia boss Jensen Huang might be delivering the corporate’s CES 2025 opening keynote, marking the primary time he is taken over presenting duties from Nvidia SVP Jeff Fisher since 2019. It means that Staff Inexperienced could have one thing huge on present, seemingly the RTX 5070, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090.
We have seen fairly just a few claims concerning the Blackwell playing cards’ specs, however worth particulars have been mild. Final week, YouTube channel Moore’s Legislation is Lifeless (MLID) stated the RTX 5090 might be between $1,999 and $2,499, with the MSRP seemingly nearer to the latter determine. If true, that might make it nearly $1,000 greater than the RTX 4090’s $1,599 MSRP when it launched in November 2022.
Fortunately, MLID does not have one of the best fame with regards to these types of claims. A extra dependable supply, kopite7kimi, was requested for his or her take. The prolific leaker stated there will not be a “important” worth enhance for the RTX 5090.
I do not consider there might be a major worth enhance for RTX 5090.
– kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) October 10, 2024
Nvidia is actually no stranger to releasing playing cards with comically costly worth tags. The RTX 3090 Ti carried a large $1,999 MSRP when it arrived in January 2022. There was additionally the Titan RTX, which value $2,499 in 2018 – although it was designed extra for AI researchers, content material creators, and information scientists.
Nvidia confronted loads of backlash over the way in which it priced (i.e. too excessive) the RTX 4000 Lovelace sequence, so one would think about it is going to keep away from the identical errors with Blackwell. Nevertheless, AMD has confirmed that its RX 8000 sequence will not be competing with its rival’s top-tier next-gen playing cards, which means the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 will seemingly go unchallenged. That might give Nvidia the arrogance to cost its new GPUs larger than anticipated, realizing that these shoppers who all the time demand one of the best merchandise might be prepared to pay. There’s additionally the truth that round 78% of Nvidia’s income comes from its information middle enterprise.
GeForce RTX 5090
PG144/145-SKU30
GB202-300-A1
21760FP32
512-bit GDDR7 32G
600W– kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) September 26, 2024
Kopite7kimi lately stated that the RTX 5090 will embrace 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM on a 512-bit reminiscence bus, function 21,760 CUDA cores, and eat 600W. The RTX 5080, in the meantime, might have 16GB of VRAM, 10,752 CUDA cores, and a 320W TDP.