Sunday, May 5th 2024
NVIDIA to Only Launch the Flagship GeForce RTX 5090 in 2024, Rest of the Series in 2025
NVIDIA debuted the current RTX 40-series "Ada" in 2022, which means the company is expected to debut its next-generation in some shape or form in 2024, having refreshed it earlier this year. We've known for a while that the new GeForce RTX 50-series "Blackwell" could see a 2024 debut, which is going by past trends, would be the top-two or three SKUs, followed by a ramp up in the following year, but we're now learning through a new Moore's Law is Dead leak that the launch could be limited to just the flagship product, the GeForce RTX 5090, or the SKU that succeeds the RTX 4090.
Even a launch limited to the flagship RTX 5090 would give us a fair idea of the new "Blackwell" architecture, its various new features, and how the other SKUs in the lineup could perform at their relative price-points, because the launch could at least include a technical overview of the architecture. NVIDIA "Blackwell" is expected to introduce another generational performance leap over the current lineup. The reasons NVIDIA is going with a more conservative launch of GeForce "Blackwell" could be to allow the market to digest inventories of the current RTX 40-series; and to accord higher priority to AI GPUs based on the architecture, which fetch the company much higher margins.
Source:
Moore's Law is Dead (YouTube)
Even a launch limited to the flagship RTX 5090 would give us a fair idea of the new "Blackwell" architecture, its various new features, and how the other SKUs in the lineup could perform at their relative price-points, because the launch could at least include a technical overview of the architecture. NVIDIA "Blackwell" is expected to introduce another generational performance leap over the current lineup. The reasons NVIDIA is going with a more conservative launch of GeForce "Blackwell" could be to allow the market to digest inventories of the current RTX 40-series; and to accord higher priority to AI GPUs based on the architecture, which fetch the company much higher margins.
154 Comments on NVIDIA to Only Launch the Flagship GeForce RTX 5090 in 2024, Rest of the Series in 2025
that being said I still want one, but I doubt if I will get one. pretty happy with my current setup, and my massive backlog which is easy to run.
I'm interested in trying Path Tracing in Dragon Dogma 2 and RE4 Remake too.
AMD won't really suffer not having high end this year. Just knock the RDNA 4 N48 out of the park and price it right and it outsell 5090 1000:1
youtube influencers, whom then will be obligated to display the 5090 all the time or at the very least mention the 5090 on unrelated videos.
The so called tech reviewers whom i call bribed influencers, which will proceed to shove that 5090 down our throats as a must buy without saying that theirs were free.
Whatever its left, will go to scalpers, whom then will proceed to milk dry the rabid cult members that believed the hype pushed by the previous groups of influencers.
500W
50% more RT core
5% more CUDA
Still plenty excited for what nvidia, amd and intel make this generation. From technological perspectives anyway. I try not to let price and availability tint what I think of the actual math that's happening on the silicon; deciding if it's worth it always comes later.
Good times ahead :p
those numbers are impressive though I won't lie. combine that with frame gen and DLSS, that card will easily last 10 years imo.
I am happy with 7900 XT though, so eh. I honestly don't blame Nvidia though, supply and demand, people just need to learn patience.
this is how I have always done things and I am probably not going to change, at least not until like its forced upon me, like it is in some games, but in those games I'm like meh it is what it is.
While GPUs are overpriced, one of the advantages of going RTX, is that the prices stay more or less stable over the years.