TECH NEWS – A reliable leaker promises a performance boost of no less than 70% (!) for Nvidia’s RTX 5090 graphics card.

Nvidia is working hard on next-gen products, including the Nvidia RTX 5090. This is the case in all of the company’s major markets. While they have been increasingly focused on artificial intelligence in recent years, gamers can expect next-gen GPUs from the green team. These GPUs are rumoured to be products from the ‘Blackwell’ series.

Thanks to a leaker called Panzerlied, who has previously published exact hardware details about Nvidia’s graphics cards, we now have some hardware details about Nvidia’s RTX 50 series products.

Nvidia’s RTX 50 series will land in early 2025. So, these early details should be treated with caution.

The first detail from panzerlied’s report is that Nvidia’s Blackwell gaming flagship should have 50% more memory bandwidth. This bandwidth is likely due to the fact that Nvidia is using GDDR7 memory. This suggests that Nvidia’s Blackwell gaming flagship uses a 386-bit memory bus and 31.5 Gbps of GDDR7 memory. Samsung and Micron have already confirmed their plans to produce GDDR7 memory. GDDR7 is expected to be used in the next generation of GPUs.

Nvidia’s next-gen flagship is said to have 78% more cache. Presumably, the size of the L2 cache. This would give the Nvidia RTX 5090 128 MB of L2 cache, a vast improvement. With the core frequency of the RTX 5090 increasing by 15% compared to the RTX 4090, Nvidia’s next-generation flagship could run at 3+ GHz clock speeds in many gaming workloads.

The RTX 5090 is reported to deliver a 70% performance increase over its predecessor. This increase is achieved by Nvidia’s next-generation GPU thanks to additional CUDA cores and/or increased IPC per core. Assuming that Blackwell does not result in a colossal IPC increase, the RTX 5090 is expected to have around 24,000 CUDA cores.

Source: Cliphell