Nvidia RTX 50 series: Everything we know so far

The Nvidia RTX 50 series will be the next generation of graphics cards from Team Green. They are scheduled to be launched later this year in 2024, which Nvidia has already confirmed. According to the rumor mill, IPC is expected to be a massive jump from tech current-gen RTX 40 series graphics cards. This makes sense, given the company mainly focused on efficiency instead of shooting for a stellar gen-on-gen rendering prowess improvement this generation.

The upcoming generation will be based on a new Blackwell architecture, as per leaks. Professional and server-grade graphics cards based on this new formula have already hit shelves and have been nothing short of impressive. Thus, it will be interesting to see what these graphics cards bring to the consumer graphics market.

Here's every leak and development surrounding the next generation of Team Green graphics cards for gaming. We also include a bit of our speculation in the leaked info. Take all of this with a pinch of salt because none of it is set in stone or confirmed by Nvidia just yet.

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When will the Nvidia RTX 50 series graphics cards be released?

According to Team Green's past launch trends, a new GPU generation hits the market every two years. The Pascal-based GTX 10 series launched in 2016, followed by the Turing-based RTX 20 series in 2018 and the Ampere-based RTX 30 series in 2020. The RTX 40 series cards debuted on schedule in 2022. However, things are a bit different for the upcoming generation.

The RTX 40 series lineup was a massive fail initially for Team Green. Initially, there was some speculation that Nvidia has delayed the next-gen RTX 50 series cards to an H1 2025 launch. A presentation by the company at a machine learning conference had hinted at this possibility.

However, things have changed for the better since then. With the fears of a recession now in the rearview mirror and PC hardware demands catching up again, Nvidia recently unveiled the RTX 40 Super series of GPUs. The company is all set to unveil the next generation of video cards later this year in the fall.

The flagship RTX 5090 and 5080 will be the first to hit the market, with the budget and mid-range 5070 and 5060 cards released in the following months.

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What are the specs of the RTX 50 series cards?

Not much is known about the specs of the upcoming Blackwell GPUs. However, leaks suggest that the upcoming lineup will deliver much better performance than the current generation of graphics cards.

Recently, reliable Twitter leaker and industry insider kopite7kimi confirmed that the upcoming flagship, preferably an RTX 5090, will feature a 512-bit memory bus. When you do the math, that adds up to a jaw-dropping 32 GB VRAM size on the top model.

Leaked specs of the upcoming Blackwell GPUs (Image via RedGamingTech/YouTube)

In addition, other leakers like RedGamingTech have revealed that the upcoming generation will feature GDDR7 memory, PCIe Gen 5 connectivity, and much larger cache sizes. A list of the revealed specs is as follows:

	GB100	GB102
Streaming Multiprocessors	256	144
Memory size	32 GB	24 GB
Memory type	512-bit HBM3	384-bit GDDR7
Level 2 cache	128 MB	96 MB
Connectivity	PCIe Gen 5 x16	PCIe Gen 5 x16
Graphics cards	RTX 5090	RTX 5090/5080

Do note that these lists are internal targets that Nvidia is trying to achieve with the upcoming graphics cards and might not reflect what we will end up getting in the final product since it is too early to accurately gauge what the next generation of GPUs will bring.

For those interested in the upcoming Blackwell GPUs, keep checking this page now and then, as we will update it with the latest information on the graphics cards.