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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Specs Leaked, and They’re Massive

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We’re just a few months out from CES, which will be held in January 2025. This means we’re just a few months out from the official announcement of Nvidia’s 5000 series GPUs.

However, some sneaky little leaker has found the specs for the RTX 5080 and 5090, beating Nividia to the punch.

Kopite7kimi, who is known in the leaker sphere for making accurate predictions, posted the specs for the RTX 5090 in a short post.

Ignoring that the GeForce RTX 5090 tops out at 600W, which is more than my whole desktop uses, there are some considerable increases in hardware performance. The card is predicted to hold 32GB of GDDR7 memory, with a 512-bit bus, pushing 21,760 shaders. Compared to the RTX 4090, that’s around a 32% increase on numbers alone. The upgrade to GDDR7 memory will also give the card a slight bump in performance, meaning we can expect a 40% overall performance boost.

GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5090 (according to kopite7kimi’s leak)
Codename Ada Lovelace David Blackwell
Shader units 16,384 21,760
Memory bus 448 bits 512 bits
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR7
Graphics memory 24GB 32GB
Total Power 450W 600W

 

As for pricing, well, with an improvement this big we’re certainly going to have a few crying wallets in our future. Analysts predict the card to launch close to the $2,000 mark, or around R35,000.

We also know that Nvidia has the potential to push the Blackwell chips a further 3000 shaders, which we could see come up in the Ti or Titan versions of the card when they are released further down the line.

The RTX 5080 specs were also leaked, but compared to the current generation RTX 4080, there’s not much of an overall improvement.

Here, we see the same amount of memory, 16GB in the same bus size, 256 bits. We see a slight bump in shaders, going from 9,728 on the RTX 4080 to 10,752 on the RTX 5080. Of course, the newer card will also sport GDDR7, which should bolster the performance increase over the straight number comparison, but we’re probably only looking at a 15% overall improvement.

GeForce RTX 4080  GeForce RTX 5080 (according to kopite7kimi’s leak)
Codename Ada Lovelace David Blackwell
Shader units 9,728 10,752
Memory bus 256 bits 256 bits
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR7
Graphics memory 16GB 16GB
Total Power 320W 400W

With specs similar to those of the RTX 4080, we should see the RTX 5080 land at a similar price point, but possibly slightly higher due to the newer technologies.

We expect to see the first batch of cards hit the market in February of 2025 after they are officially revealed during CES, but we’ll just have to keep our eyes on the sky and our ears to the ground for any price announcements.

What do you think about the leaked specs for the next generation of cards? Let us know in the comments below.

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