The Leaked Nvidia RTX 5090 Has So Many Cores It Actually Scares Me

The GeForce RTX 4090 is already truthful large that immoderate PC builder worthy their brackish knows that you’ll request specialized brackets conscionable to support it from falling and dismantling your computer. The anticipated RTX 5090, Nvidia’s expected adjacent ample and in-charge GPU, is acceptable to beryllium an implicit monstrosity of a graphics card. Leaked specs amusement it has much than 5,000 much CUDA cores than the Ada Lovelace GPUs and a default TGP that honestly makes maine somewhat acrophobic of plugging it in.

Leaked specs archetypal shown via VideoCardz connote the long-rumored Blackwell GPUs from Nvidia are acceptable to bargain hearts and wallets and request a batch from your section electrical grid. Of course, I’m exaggerating, but the rumored 600W powerfulness gully would so necessitate a sizable PSU successful immoderate PC hoping to tally it. Compare that to the RTX 4090, which demanded a 450W base.

The 50-series GPUs see an RTX 5080 with 10,752 CUDA cores and 16 GB of GDDR7 VRAM. The RTX 5090 contains a ludicrous 21,760 FP32 CUDA cores and 32 GB of VRAM connected a 512-bit bus. Otherwise, the measurement down from that—the 5080—is a comparatively subdued upgrade from the 4080. It contains 1,024 much CUDA cores than the past generation, though it has the aforesaid magnitude of V-RAM with a 176 GB/s leap successful representation bandwidth. The leak suggests the 5080 is pulling 400W alternatively than the erstwhile 320W.

GeForce RTX 5090 to diagnostic 21760 CUDA cores, 32GB GDDR7 representation and 600W, RTX 5080 gets 16GB VRAM/400W (leak specs) https://t.co/BMAJSGOS5N pic.twitter.com/SNgSsVxnfx

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The specs were taken from regular and usually reliable Nvidia leaker Kopite7kimi connected Twitter. We’ve antecedently cited them with past RTX 4090 leaks backmost successful 2022. Still, you shouldn’t tally retired the doorway for a caller powerfulness proviso conscionable yet. VideoCardz noted the archetypal leaker didn’t specify whether that default powerfulness gully was TBP oregon TGP, which is fundamentally the quality betwixt a graphics card’s full powerfulness request and 1 from astir peripherals. 

There’s inactive truthful overmuch we don’t cognize astir the card, specified arsenic its different halfway values, timepiece speeds, oregon cooling apparatus. With those speeds, it would surely tally hot. Kopite7kimi antecedently claimed the RTX 5090 Founders Edition has a 2-slot cooler alternatively than being a 4-slot GPU. This makes immoderate sense, particularly if Nvidia hopes customers to acceptable the graphics paper successful thing different than a monolithic tower. It besides means the paper could usage immoderate non-standard signifier of cooling, but astatine this point, it’s excessively aboriginal to speculate.

Both 5080 and 5090 volition necessitate a PCIe 5.0 slot, which debuted earlier this year. That’s expected, but it besides reminds consumers that they volition request to procure a caller motherboard if they anticipation to upgrade from immoderate PCIe 4.0-based graphics card. 

Both GPUs look similar coagulated upgrades for show successful high-resolution gaming. That being said, the 5090 is practically treble the expected show of the 5080, making maine wonderment conscionable however costly the paper volition beryllium astatine release. You’ll besides request to woody with CPU compute powerfulness limiting the existent show gains of immoderate caller card. In today’s existent games environment, the 5090 seems much built for endeavor dense lifting alternatively than crippled performance. There’s nary modern time demanding crippled similar Crysis forcing everybody to upgrade. Most gaming people volition beryllium conscionable good sticking with the existent gen for now.