The designs of the RTX 5080/D and RTX 5090/D are expected to be completed in September, reports BenchLife.info, which cites sources within the factories working on these upcoming GPUs. The article says that these GPUs are scheduled to be officially launched this month, if you run it through Google’s machine translation, which apparently moves their launch forward from the initially leaked CES 2025 launch. However, a Tweet by @Zed__Wang asserts that this is a (Google Translate) machine mistranslation. Instead, what BenchLife.info meant is that the designs will be finalized by this month. If that is the case, then it seems to be on track for a late 2024 or early 2025 launch — which will likely be at CES.
In related news, @kopite7kimi confirmed through a private reply to another X (formerly Twitter) user that the RTX 5080 will require 400 watts. The X user said, “So, 600w for 5090 and 400w for 5080 is right?” and the leaker simply said “Yeah,”. If this information is true, then it means that the 5080 will get an 80-watt bump in TGP. It’s also a bigger bump than what was previously expected, as Seasonic’s PSU wattage calculator accidentally leaked lower numbers for Nvidia’s 50-series GPUs.
