Nvidia's upcoming RTX 50-series graphics cards are undoubtedly going to rival some of the best GPUs. Here's what we know about them.
Nvidia already makes some of the best graphics cards , but it’s also not resting on its laurels. Although the RTX 40-series, which has been bolstered by a refresh, is still very recent, Nvidia is also working on its next-gen GPU s from the RTX 50-series.
Moore’s Law Is Dead said in a recent video that a source at Nvidia told him that “Blackwell is being prepared to be ready to launch in the fourth quarter of 2024,” but only if Nvidia wants it to. This depends on whether AMD’s RDNA 4 cards will be competitive enough to take away sales from Nvidia during the holiday season at the end of this year, as well as how Ada sales are going around that time.
Assuming the flagship 5090 will cost close to $2,000, the rest of the lineup is, unfortunately, likely to follow with price increases across the board. However, for Nvidia to remain the go-to against AMD, the prices can’t keep rising forever. There is some hope that Nvidia will realize this and keep its pricing more reasonable for the next generation, but it’s too early to tell.
Kopite’s latest update talks about the memory interface for Blackwell. The leaker now states that the flagship card will indeed have a 512-bit memory bus, despite their previous statements that it would stick to 384-bit. The maximum bus width of Blackwell has been a very contentious topic among popular leakers, so it’s hard to know what’s true.
More speculation shared by kopite7kimi corroborates this. According to the leaker, the GB203 chip will be “half of GB202,” marking a similar drop in performance as what we’ve seen in the RTX 4090 versus the RTX 4080. It’s worth noting that RedGamingTech, unlike kopite7kimi, believes that we’re getting a maximum bus width of 384 bits.
RTX 50-series: architecture Nvidia is keeping the architecture used in Blackwell chips hush-hush, but it won’t stay that way much longer. With the GPUs a few months away, we’ll learn more as the release date draws closer. For the time being, Nvidia talked about the architecture for its data center Blackwell GPUs, which may not be very indicative of what could happen in the consumer lineup — but there are still some interesting tidbits.
To that end, the YouTuber said we might see significant architectural changes, including a major redesign of Nvidia’s SMs. He also mentioned the addition of a denoising accelerator, either as a part of the chip or as a function of Nvidia’s Tensor cores. More importantly, RedGamingTech initially teased that Nvidia may use a multi-chip module design. This means a design approach where multiple smaller chips are packaged together to form a single, larger, and more powerful processor.
According to Moore’s Law Is Dead, the performance uplift between Ada and Blackwell may not be major. The YouTuber’s source mentioned that “Blackwell’s rasterization uplift over Ada will not be as impressive as Ampere to Ada.” However, the source also said that Nvidia could make the RTX 5090 feel like a similar uplift “if it felt threatened.
The only real hint of performance figures we have right now comes from a slide made by Nvidia, but unfortunately, the slide talks about its next-gen high-performance computing graphics card used in data centers. The graph, which measures GPU performance in GPT-3 175B inference, shows that the H200 GPU will be up to 18 times faster than the A100 — but that’s not Blackwell architecture yet.
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