RTX 5080 to come first?
Nvidia usually launches a new GPU family with a bang. Its next GPU architecture is Blackwell, and is expected to appear this year. Nvidia has shown a 2025 roadmap, but nobody appears to believe that. The 4000-series Lovelace cards were stunning, but Nvidia’s clumsy handling of their price and configurations knocked their appeal. Blackwell is hotly anticipated, and we’d love to see it before next year. But what Blackwell cards could land first? Early rumors suggested all we may get is an RTX 5090. More recently, that’s changed to the RTX 5080, with the biggest gun saved for next year. Since AMD isn’t providing hot competition at the top level, Nvidia isn’t under any pressure to drop the 5090 first, but we still wouldn’t be surprised to see both 5090 and 5080 announced together. Indeed, there is a small chance that by the time you are reading these words, Nvidia will have pulled the covers off something at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. –CL