We’re rapidly closing in on the RTX 50 series release date, which is all but confirmed to take place in early 2025. It’s looking most likely that the flagship RTX 5090 will revealed first alongside the RTX 5080 and we’re now starting to see reference to these cards on official board partners sites – Zotac in today’s case.
Looking back to some early leaked specs for the RTX 5090, we could see that the GPU will reportedly feature a massive 32GB of GDDR7 memory, alongside 512-bit bus width and 28 Gbps memory clock speed. That would certainly help deal with any worries running the latest AAA games at 4K, and it looks like this has been close to confirmed as references to the cards have appeared online.
Up to 32GB of VRAM on the next generation of graphics cards leaked
VideoCardz has done some digital snooping and has confirmed that Zotac is gearing up for five new models. Though it looks like they have since been removed, references to upcoming RTX 50 series GPUs from the 5070 up to the 5090 were spotted on the Zotac website.
- RTX 5090
- RTX 5090D (likely China-exclusive)
- RTX 5080
- RTX 5070 Ti
- RTX 5070
On top of that, we can confirm that Zotac has indeed added some extra filtering options to their site – namely 32GB and GDDR7 memory. Considering the 40 series caps out at 24GB GDDR6X with the RTX 4090, this hints at what the upcoming 50 series is capable of. And since previously leaked specs reveal 32GB GDDR7 for the RTX 5090, is all the more likely that this specification is set in stone.
RTX 5090 probably won’t be beaten for years to come
AMD has already announced its plans to target more mid-range graphics cards this upcoming generation, and we’ve already seen what Intel has to offer in its Battlemage line-up so far. So, it goes to show that nothing will come close to the RTX 5090 any time soon, or at least that seems incredibly likely right now. This may leave Nvidia with absolutely no high-end GPU competition.
If the RTX 5090 does feature 32GB of VRAM, it’s safe to say it will be fairly overkill for most gaming needs. The gains in rasterization performance and whatever new-gen DLSS or ray tracing tech Nvidia may be cooking up are yet to be seen, but it already looks like the new flagship will be miles ahead of the 4090, reportedly consuming 600W of power.
Games are indeed getting increasingly memory-hungry – something that has been evident for 8GB cards recently; the 5090 will be a powerhouse for 4K gaming in comparison.
