The true performance of the GeForce RTX 5090, NVIDIA’s latest flagship GPU based on the “Blackwell” architecture, will be fully revealed a couple of days before its official release, on January 24, while the performance of the GeForce RTX 5080, its weaker but still high-end sibling, will be revealed on the day of its release, according to new embargo dates for the GeForce RTX 50 Series that have surfaced online.
“January 24th: GeForce RTX 5090/5090D Founders Edition & AIB Cards Reviews,” reads a breakdown of the alleged dates, followed by “GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition & AIB Cards Reviews,” which are slated to arrived on “January 30.”
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Review Dates (Rumored)
- January 24: GeForce RTX 5090/5090D Founders Edition and AIB cards reviews
- January 30: GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition and AIB cards reviews
- January 30: GeForce RTX 5090/5090D FE/AIB and RTX 5080 FE/AIB sales
“For desktop users, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU with 3,352 AI TOPS and the GeForce RTX 5080 GPU with 1,801 AI TOPS will be available on Jan. 30 at $1,999 and $999, respectively,” NVIDIA confirmed on January 6, the same day that it revealed what it has described as “the most advanced consumer GPUs for gamers, creators and developers.”
“The GeForce RTX 5090 GPU — the fastest GeForce RTX GPU to date — features 92 billion transistors, providing over 3,352 trillion AI operations per second (TOPS) of computing power,” NVIDIA added. “Blackwell architecture innovations and DLSS 4 mean the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU outperforms the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU by up to 2x.”