TECH NEWS – A possible release date has surfaced for the first slug of Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture…

So far we’ve heard that Nvidia is repeating what they did with the Ada Lovelace architecture, as the first GeForce RTX 4000 graphics card to be released was the RTX 4080. Now we’re hearing that the RTX 5080 will be the one to introduce the Blackwell architecture, so this time it won’t be the most powerful model that hits stores first, but the card below it.

At CES, on January 6, Nvidia’s new graphics cards will be unveiled, as Nvidia’s Jensen Huang will give the opening keynote at “E3 Electronics”. This was already known, but not when the cards would be available. On Twitter (in a tweet that has since been deleted), HKEPC mentioned the launch date for the RTX 5080: he wrote January 21, so two weeks after CES the card will be in stores, and not coincidentally, as we’ve already written, Nvidia and AMD are racing against time to get the new cards from China to US warehouses as soon as possible, so they won’t be subject to customs duties after Donald Trump is inaugurated as president of the United States. . on January 20th.

So when will the RTX 5090 be available? We don’t know yet. It could be available alongside the RTX 5080 from January 21, but chances are it will be a little later, but it could still launch at the end of January, and if not, it could launch in early February. The RTX 5080 will have 10752 CUDA cores on the GB203-300-A1 GPU, 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM (at 30Gbps… which is said to be faster than the RTX 5090), a 256-bit memory bus, 960GB/s bandwidth (34% higher than the RTX 4080 and 30% higher than the RTX 4080 Super), and may have 80W more TBP at a slightly higher price.

Hopefully the card won’t be so expensive that the price tag will knock everyone off their feet.

Source: WCCFTech