Nvidia Blackwell: Is a Desktop 50 Graphics Card Coming?

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TECH NEWS – PCI identifiers for laptop GPUs have leaked, and this time there may be enough technological progress to bring a lower-end GPU to desktop PCs after the RTX 3050.

A list of laptop (mobile) variants of Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell architecture has appeared on the PCI ID Repository website, so these are real hardware IDs. According to the site, there will be 13 SKUs, and it’s likely that along with the latest Intel and AMD processors, laptop GPUs will first be seen in the companies’ latest laptops at CES 2025. We also know that Nvidia is coming with laptop chips, so we’ve already heard that a new memory interface is coming in the person of GDDR7. But let’s take a look at the ID list:

Nvidia Blackwell PCI IDs:

10de:2941 (GB100/GB200?)
10de:2980 (desktop RTX 5090?)
10de:29c0 (desktop RTX 5090?)
10de:2c18 (RTX 5090 Max-Q / Mobile)
10de:2c19 (RTX 5080 Max-Q / Mobile)
10de:2c2c (RTX 5080 Max-Q / Mobile)
10de:2c58 (RTX 5090 Max-Q / Mobile)
10de:2c59 (RTX 5080 Max-Q / Mobile)
10de:2d18 (RTX 5070 Max-Q / Mobile)
10de:2d19 (RTX 5060 Max-Q / Mobile)
10de:2d58 (RTX 5070 Max-Q / Mobile)
10de:2d59 (RTX 5060 Max-Q / Mobile)
10de:2d98 (RTX 5050 Max-Q / Mobile)
10de:2dd8 (RTX 5050 Max-Q / Mobile)
10de:2f18 (RTX 5070 Ti Max-Q / Mobile)
10de:2f58 (RTX 5070 Ti Max-Q / Mobile)

So there will be RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5070, RTX 5060, and RTX 5050. Now here’s the interesting thing: on the current architecture (Ada Lovelace), laptops have the RTX 4050 chip, but there’s no such thing in the desktop graphics cards: instead, they’ve made an even more gutted 6GB version of the RTX 3050 (which you could mock as the RTX 3040, since they didn’t just cut the VRAM in it). With two newer architectures in the RTX 5000 series, perhaps it’s reasonable to expect “the greens” to have an entry-level card.

The GB102 GPU is likely to show up in a workstation, but this may not happen due to its size, power consumption and heat generation. However, we can hope that the company will not only focus on the mainstream (the RTX 4060 is that level).

Source: WCCFTech

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