We know that the GeForce RTX 50 will use GDDR7 memory, but as I told you on previous occasions, it was not clear whether this memory will be used in all models of this new generation or only in some of them. I was always sure that as the new high-performance memory standard, more expensive and with limited availabilityits implementation was supposed to be reduced to the most powerful models, and the new information points in this direction.

Specifically, it is rumored that only GDDR7 memories will be used on GeForce RTX 5090, GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5070, which will be three new models that will make up NVIDIA’s high-end in its new generation and will be based on the Blackwell architecture. I still don’t have any information about the operating frequencies or the capacities and memory bus these models will have, but from what I’ve seen they could be configured like this:

• GeForce RTX 5090: 384-bit bus and 24 GB of GDDR7 memory at 32 Gbps.
• GeForce RTX 5080: 256-bit bus and 16 GB of GDDR7 memory at 28 Gbps.
• GeForce RTX 5070: 192-bit bus and 12 GB of GDDR7 memory at 28 Gb/s.

Other rumors pointed to a different configuration, which, frankly, sounds good, but would mean an increase in costs due to the increase in buses and the amount of memory that would ultimately cause a significant increase in the selling prices of each of these models:

• GeForce RTX 5090: 512-bit bus and 48 GB of GDDR7 memory at 32 Gbps.
• GeForce RTX 5080: 320-bit bus and 20 GB of GDDR7 memory at 28 Gb/s.
• GeForce RTX 5070: 256-bit bus and 16 GB of GDDR7 memory at 28 Gbps.

When will the GeForce RTX 50 arrive?

The presentation should take place at the end of this year, although we still don’t know if NVIDIA will introduce the GeForce RTX 5090, GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5070 together or if they will do so in a staggered fashion. I’m also not sure if these will hit the market at the same time or in different monthsas happened with the current generation, although the latter seems more likely.

Based on the precedent we saw with the GeForce RTX 40, my intuition tells me that the most likely first comes the GeForce RTX 5090 at the end of the year, between the months of October and November, and one or two months after that the GeForce RTX 5080 will arrive. The GeForce RTX 5070 could arrive in the first quarter of 2025, that is, it should arrive between the months of January, February and March of the same year.

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