Towards a release delayed by a few weeks to coincide with CES 2025 in Las Vegas?
In October 2022, NVIDIA launched its Ada Lovelace graphics architecture, named after the English mathematician Ada Lovelace, often considered the first computer programmer. This was just over two years after the release of the Ampere architecture (May 2020), which had been marketed just under two years after its ancestor, Turing (August 2018). This window of more or less two years between two generations is more or less a habit for NVIDIA, which could, however, take a little longer this time.
As you know, NVIDIA is currently working on the Blackwell architecture. Initially, this will result in the release of two top-of-the-range boards, the GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090. Only later will the technology be applied to more affordable, less powerful models, the GeForce RTX 5070, GeForce RTX 5060 and, perhaps, the GeForce RTX 5050. Two stages that were to result in a relatively significant "chronological gap", since the first two cards were expected for November and December 2024, while the rest of the range was not scheduled until the 1st quarter of 2025, without further precision.
I think we won't see RTX 50 until CES.
- kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) July 22, 2024
The fact remains that NVIDIA has never confirmed any of this information, and if Blackwell technology and the GeForce RTX 5000 series are what we'd call an open secret, the precise names of the graphics cards, the number of models planned and, above all, the release schedule remain unclear. As proof of this, kopite7kimi - one of NVIDIA's most reliable informants - has been sowing the seeds of doubt. He recently suggested that NVIDIA might wait until the next CES in Las Vegas to present its new graphics cards. Held from January 7 to 10 in Nevada's largest city, CES is the world's largest consumer electronics event, and the ideal place to launch a new generation of graphics cards. And there's every reason to believe that AMD could do the same, presenting its RDNA 4 architecture at CES.
