Hong Kong media reported that Nvidia RTX 5080 will be available on January 21 Hong Kong Environmental Protection Bureau (hour/ton video card). The source has a history of accurate information, but as always, we recommend treating leaks with a healthy dose of skepticism. Additionally, the source only revealed the RTX 5080 embargo, so the other GPUs in the Blackwell stack may launch on different dates.
leakage It is hinted that Nvidia’s Blackwell family will debut with the RTX 5090, RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 series. Nvidia is launching a social media campaign to drum up interest as it decides to get back on its feet GeForce LAN 13 years later. Expected 48 hours before Jensen’s long-awaited reveal January 6.
In a concise and cryptic tweet, HKEPC said that the RTX 5080 will be available for retail starting on January 21st. GPU launched. If this rumor holds true, we should see the RTX 5080 hitting vendors on January 21st. In the past, Nvidia has instituted a series of embargoes on different GPUs within a specific series, like we saw with the RTX 40 Super refresh.
RTX 5080 allegedly Its core uses Nvidia’s GB203-400-A1, which has 84 SMs or 10,752 CUDA cores. Similar to its predecessor, the RTX 5080 comes with 16GB of memory, but is upgraded to faster GDDR7 technology. Speaking of memory, it is rumored that in addition to RTX 5080 running 30 Gbps modulethe rest of the RTX 50 series will stick with 28 Gbps memory. Compared with the RTX 4080, the CUDA core has been improved by 10%. It is expected that most of the performance improvements will come from architectural changes and improved process nodes. Blackwell for servers (and possibly desktops) is manufactured using TSMC’s custom 4NP (5 nanometer level) node, which is 30% denser than the 4N used by Ada Lovelace.
Since AMD is no longer competing in the high-end field in this generation, the competition faced by the RTX 5080 seems to be minimal to basically no competition. This allows Nvidia to determine pricing without the constraints of competition. We recommend waiting for the official keynote, though, as prices may be adjusted at the last minute.