Release date?
The current expectation is that we will see the RTX 50-series revealed at CES 2025. That’s at the start of January with a final launch potentially later that month for the RTX 5090 itself. But there is still the possibility Nvidia would want to go it alone with the reveal of the big boi Blackwell GPU, and announce ahead of CES, leaving the smaller RTX 5070 and mobile GPUs to get shown off in Las Vegas at the start of next year.
Specs?
The rumoured specifications of this thing make it look like a complete monster of a GPU. It will reportedly sit on the GB202 chip—not using the full core count—but will still come with 21,760 CUDA cores. Alongside that is a rumoured 32 GB of GDDR7 on a 512-bit bus. That’s huge, and would make the RTX 5090 an AI processing, frame rate spitting beast. It’s also sporting a 600 W TGP, but potentially in a dual-slot design.
Price?
This is one of the biggest questions right now. With the RTX 40-series Nvidia tool the post-covid opportunity to spike prices at every GPU level, and the working theory was that, without competition, it would do the same again. So, $2,000+ for the RTX 5090? This is, however, the suggestion Nvidia won’t be going with a “significant” price rise, which could put the RTX 5090 at $1,700, only a little more than the RTX 4090.
