NVIDIA News Roundup: N1X PC CPU Specs Leaked in New Benchmarks, RTX 50 SUPER Series with Increased VRAM Rumored To Launch by End of Year

NVIDIA’s upcoming PC processor has been appearing in various benchmarks, and the RTX 50 series could be released around the holidays. The N1 and N1X processors are being co-developed by NVIDIA and MediaTek with the goal of offering a Windows-based CPU to compete with the latest generation of mobile processors, such as Apple’s M-Pro and M-Max series SoCs, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Elite, and AMD’s Ryzen AI Max “Strix Halo” offerings. The N1X, in particular, has been said to crossover into both desktops and laptops, and could be the rival product NVIDIA needs to gain a foothold as it attempts to enter the PC/mobile sectors.

It appears that the N1X has been getting multiple tests with Geekbench, rumored single/multicore scores leaked last month, with the latest being for OpenCL. These benchmarks seemingly confirm certain specs for the still-to-be officially announced processor. This particular chip has 20 Arm CPU cores evenly split into two clusters and paired with 48 iGPU Blackwell SMs (similar to an NVIDIA RTX 5070).

While the streaming multiprocessor count might be similar to a GeForce RTX 5070, another benchmark, also reportedly for the N1x, paints a totally different picture regarding performance. The good news is that NVIDIA appears to be integrating its latest drivers and has successfully managed to use the new processor in Windows. The first leaked benchmarks from June were on Linux, but now the above OpenCL test and a new OpenGL test (via VideoCardz), both show it working on Windows 11. However, according to the following FurMark test and using the NVIDIA 590.22 driver, it has only just managed to reach roughly half of the score for a GeForce RTX 5060 at 720p, but was reported at only using 63% of the GPU in the test. The iGPU is identified as a Tegra, but its generic name is identical to the one in the OpenCL test.

GeForce RTX 50 SUPER series

It’s unknown whether the following are the same rumors making the rounds and getting validated by different sources, as the latest via Tweaktown, appears to confirm those that surfaced last month. If true, folks hoping for more powerful upgrades to NVIDIA’s top-tier cards are out of luck, as only the mid-grade GeForce RTX 5070 looks to be getting upgrades beyond a memory increase. Both the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5080, which use variants of the same GPU die, are said to get a VRAM increase to 24 GB, and likely the reason for the added TDP ratings of each. Strangely enough, though only the RTX 5080 appears to be getting faster memory, which could potentially give it a slight performance uptick. Meanwhile, in a similar decision to what was done with the RTX 4070, the RTX 5070 sees a slight increase in CUDA Cores along with added VRAM and a modest 25W TDP bump. The latest rumors suggest that these GPUs could launch as early as the 2025 holiday season.

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