There’s been a big spate of rumours about NVIDIA’s forthcoming RTX 5090 and RTX 5080. Thanks to Benchlife, we now have new information about the cards and their power consumption/heating. As long as NVIDIA hasn’t made their specifications official, we can expect anything to happen.
RTX 5090 and RTX 5080: lower power consumption after all?
According to the information provided by Kopite7Kimi, the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 should consume 600W and 450W respectively… But things are turning out to be more complex than initially anticipated.
Once again, we have to be careful, as we’re only dealing with hearsay. Nevertheless, although the chameleon’s partners, the famous AIB (Add-In-Board), have not yet received any information from NVIDIA, they have started work on cooling systems. Rumours have it that a 400W cooling system has been cancelled or suspended, while development of a 600W system is continuing.
Finally, Benchlife indicates that it’s not impossible that the 5090 and 5080 will have massive heatsinks capable of cooling 600W of TGP, while the cards themselves will consume 550W and 350W respectively. These values correspond to increases of 22% and 9.3% compared with the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080.
These are just rumours. The feeling is that nobody knows much about the subject, or that there’s a lot of room for interpretation… And let’s not forget Nvidia’s ability to leak information to cover its tracks.
RTX 5090D and RTX 5080D due in China in September?
While the ‘real’ cards should be made official for the Western world at CES next January, China could be getting its Blackwell cards early. According to Benchlife, the RTX 5090D and RTX 5080D could arrive as early as September.
As a reminder, the D versions are intended for markets sanctioned by the United States, including China. The aim is to offer hardware with limited performance so that it can be exported.
If NVIDIA proceeds in the same way as with its RTX 4090D, we should have cards that are limited in terms of their technical characteristics, perhaps much more severely than the 4090D. In any case, this would mean a launch very soon, so we’ll be on the lookout for more information!
