It claimed that the latest reports regarding NVIDIA’s still unannounced “Blackwell” flagship graphics cards may have gotten wrong. Round and round the rumor mill spins and where it stops is anybody’s guess as details for NVIDIA’s RTX 50 series graphics cards seem to slip out. To be fair this is a normal process as PC enthusiasts anxiously await next-generation releases but the new twists come as machine-translated information can sometimes lose context or flat-out get it wrong.
Earlier this week the latest reports regarding NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs, including their overseas “D” variants suggested specs relating to power draw and a potential September release. According to MEGAsizeGPU (aka Zed_Wang) the release date was mistranslated and instead of them being launched in September it should’ve been read as officially finalized in September. The devil is in the details and as such this simply means that NVIDIA could settle on final design specs for the above-mentioned graphics cards in September, not launch them. This does actually follow suit with many other rumors since the start of 2024 that they wouldn’t launch until the end of the year, at the earliest. It’s also been suggested that NVIDIA may wait until CES 2025 to announce them.
What Benchlife said is that 5080/D and 5090/D are scheduled to officially finalize the design in September, not officially launch in September. https://t.co/UIdvq5uuhp
— MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) September 5, 2024
MOAR Power, or less
Another detail, besides price, that PC enthusiasts are concerned about is the total power draw for these particular models. It was also mentioned this week, and a few other times this year, that the RTX 5090 could have a 600W TGP and the RTX 5080 with 400W TGP but that may not have been accurate either. According to the report from Benchlife, those numbers could actually relate to the rated cooling capacity of their heatsinks, or as translated “radiators”. It’s now possible that each card has 50W less power draw than previously reported at 550W and 350W respectively. Ironically, considering the other possible mistranslated regarding their launch month, here is another machine translation from Benchlife regarding these details.
Per Benchlife:
- “Perhaps, 400W and 600W are the maximum heat dissipation capabilities of the radiator.”
- “In fact, the TGP of GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080 are 550W and 350W respectively.”