The features for the upcoming Nvidia RTX 5000 GPU series have been revealed, based on the latest rumored information.
According to a well known Nvidia leaker, kopite7kimi, the Nvidia RTX 5000 series GPU features will include Display Port 2.1 support. It was also stated by them that these Blackwell GB20x architecture based graphics cards will use TSMC 3 nm process technology. It was not revealed whether it will be a custom 3N node or one of the available ones, such as N3E, N3P, and N3X.
Nvidia has yet to announce a release date for its Blackwell lineup of GPUs, though the company expects to begin shipping Blackwell HPC GPUs sometime late in 2024, which should be followed by the gaming series shortly after. The aforementioned Blackwell HPC series was already rumored to be using a 3 nm node, and, if true, the new rumor from kopite7kimi regarding the gaming series also using the same foundry would make sense.
The existing lineup of gaming GPUs from Nvidia, the GeForce 4000 series, succeeded the GeForce 3000 series. The RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 were released on October 12 and November 16, 2022, respectively, following the series’ announcement on September 20, 2022, at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2022 event. The third-generation RT cores and fourth-generation Tensor Cores from Nvidia are used in the cards, which are based on the Ada Lovelace architecture and offer hardware-accelerated raytracing (RTX). On January 3, 2023, NVIDIA reintroduced the cancelled 4080 12GB as 4070 Ti while reducing its price by $100. A number of mobile GPUs were released as well.
Given previous Nvidia GPU generations and the significant difference in performance and specifications compared to the 16 GB card, numerous publications, well-known YouTubers, reviewers, and the community criticized Nvidia for calling the 12 GB RTX 4080 an RTX 4080 rather than an RTX 4070 when it was first announced. It was implied by the names RTX 4080 12GB and RTX 4080 16GB that the only distinction between the two products was their VRAM capacities.
