NVIDIA is in the final stages of designing the GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, both of which will be completed this September. This means that it could be presented and launched at the end of this year, but it’s important to keep in mind that it’s not guaranteed yet, and there’s still talk that this new generation won’t arrive until early 2025.

Another interesting topic that I have to mention again is the possible consumption of both models. Yesterday I told you that the figures of GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080 increased to 600 watts and 400 watts, but now new information coming from Chinese sources ensures that these figures are not correct and that final consumption will be lower.

The source says that NVIDIA is working on cooling systems for graphics cards with a TDP of up to 600 watts, but that This does not mean that it will be consumption GeForce RTX 5090 and the same goes for the 400 watt cooling system and GeForce RTX 5080. Both will have lower consumption values.

The actual consumption of the GeForce RTX 5090 could be up to 550 watts and the GeForce RTX 5080 would reach a maximum peak consumption of 350 watts. If confirmed, the efficiency value of the GeForce RTX 5080 would improve a lot and we would have a graphics card more powerful than GeForce RTX 4090 with 100 watts less consumption.

The GeForce RTX 5090 will be so powerful that NVIDIA is preparing the GeForce RTX 5090D

And according to the latest information, the green giant will also launch the GeForce RTX 5080D. Models marked with the letter “D” They are cut versions which use lower configurations than the reference models to meet the restrictions placed on components with AI acceleration capabilities sold in China. So these models will be exclusive to the Chinese market.

In terms of performance, the GeForce RTX 5090 should be 30% to 45% more powerful than GeForce RTX 4090. GeForce RTX 5080 will 10 to 15% more powerful than the GeForce RTX 4080. These values ​​refer to the performance improvement in rasterization, I have no information yet on the possible performance of these graphics cards with ray tracing, although I would bet on an improvement similar to or even greater than the one we saw with Ada Lovelace.

Going back to the possible release date of both graphics cards, I see it more and more likely for both models They leave in early 2025. NVIDIA is in a very comfortable position, it is in no hurry to launch a new generation of graphics, as its GeForce RTX 4090 still has no rivals, and this situation will not change even with the launch of the Radeon RX 8000, as AMD will not launch the top model of this new generation.

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