The latest rumor suggests that NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs will not arrive in 2024 but could debut at CES 2025. At this point pretty much anything goes in regard as to when NVIDIA’s next generation of consumer graphics cards will arrive but this rumor seems as plausible as the rest. For a time it has been speculated that the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series might launch in Q4 24 but it’s starting to look like NVIDIA could push it back a bit further. NVIDIA has yet to make any official announcement regarding the next round of GPUs but rumors regarding it have been prolific since 2023 and now according to industry information leaker Kopite7kimi, CES 2025 could be the event for an official debut.
I think we won't see RTX 50 until CES.
— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) July 22, 2024
Another possibility is that NVIDIA could opt for its product announcement event just before CES, similar to what it did just before Computex 2024 began. Such marketing strategies are not wholly uncommon within the tech and gaming industries when an entity decides to hold its own event to coincide with another. It has been mentioned that CES is not where discreet GPUs are typically revealed but NVIDIA already broke with that tradition last year when it announced its RTX 40 SUPER series lineup there.
2025 The new year of next-gen tech?
If this latest rumor pans out to be true, it could mean that a flood of inbound tech will be expected in 2025 and even if some do get announced in Q4 24, most purchases will occur in 2025. A couple of rumors that also popped up recently are that the AMD Radeon RX 8000 RDNA 4 lineup and Intel’s Arc B-series aka Battlemage featuring Xe2-HPG are expected to arrive in 2025 and perhaps one or both could be announced at CES 2025 as well. From desktop graphics cards to new gaming consoles from Sony and Nintendo, PC enthusiasts and gamers may want to start saving their money now if hoping to get next-gen tech in 2025.