Geforce Rumors: RTX 5080 TI 24GB at the End of the Year and a Slow 5090D 54 comments
As soon as Nvidia has fully unveiled the new generation of Blackwell (at least for the time being), the rumor mill is already buzzing with new products. According to this, it should be possible that a GeForce RTX 5080 Super or GeForce RTX 5080 Ti (or a completely different name) will appear towards the end of the year.
The RTX 5080 Super/Ti should offer more VRAM.
NVIDIA has enough options for this; the gap between the GeForce RTX 5080 (review) and the GeForce RTX 5090 (review) is enormous, with a performance difference of almost 50% in Ultra HD. Another option for a different product is to expand the memory. The RTX 5080 has 16 GB, the RTX 5090 has 32 GB. And that’s exactly where the GeForce RTX 5080 should start; according to an Asian leak on Baidu, the VRAM should be 24 GB. The remaining specifications, however, are still unclear.
The new RTX 5090D should be a little slower
However, according to the leak, there are many more details for the revised version of the GeForce RTX 5090D for the Chinese region, which Nvidia is expected to adapt to new sanctions imposed by the United States. If this is true, the “new” versus “old” GeForce RTX 5090D would likely be a massive downgrade in all respects, while the original GeForce RTX 5090D is not as slow as the regular GeForce RTX 5090.
Speculation suggests that the new GeForce RTX 5090D should be very similar to the RTX Pro 5000. As a result, the new version would still have 14,080 shaders, or 35% fewer shaders than the GeForce RTX 5090D and GeForce RTX 5090, which both rely on 21,760 shaders. Even with an increased GPU clock, this would inevitably result in a massive performance loss, and the GeForce RTX 5090D would be slower than the GeForce RTX 4090.
But that’s not the only drawback: the new GeForce RTX 5090D would no longer rely on a 512-bit storage interface, but would instead rely on a 384-bit interface. This reduces memory bandwidth by a quarter, even with the same GDDR7 memory, and the memory size would also be reduced from 32 GB to 24 GB.
Is the circle near the RTX 5080 Super?
“In the near future” will clarify whether this will happen, as Nvidia is expected to announce the new GeForce RTX 5090D variant then. This would have no impact on European sales, as there are no GeForce RTX 5090Ds outside of China anyway. However, it is also possible that the new GeForce RTX 5090D will serve as a model for the GeForce RTX 5080. But this is just a theory that ultimately seems a bit unlikely—but cannot be ruled out.
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