The RTX 4090 is still the top graphics card. When might that change?
While there was a real graphics card rush at this time last year, this year things are comparatively quiet. Sure, AMD recently introduced two new cards for the mid-range segment. But there is currently little concrete to report from Nvidia in particular.
But that doesn’t mean that the green team doesn’t do anything in the background. Apparently Nvidia is already working hard on a new generation. And as befits gaming hardware, information about the new cards is already somehow leaking out to the public.
Content of this information: A completely new design that Nvidia will use for the first time in the RTX 5000 – and an initial assessment of how the RTX 5090 will perform compared to its predecessor.
RTX 5090: Better in at least five categories
What happened? Yesterday there were two leaks about the new Nvidia graphics cards of the RTX 5000 generation.
RTX 5000: Nvidia is said to be using an MCM for the first time
The first leak comes from rumor legend kopite7kimi. He shared two posts on X (formerly Twitter). Accordingly, the number of cores in the upcoming graphics cards should hardly increase, but the architecture of the cards should be worked on properly. For the first time, an MCM (Multi Chip Module) will be used in Nvidia’s gaming cards.
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What does MCM mean? As the name suggests, an MCM uses several chips. So instead of being limited to a single GPU, the card uses at least two, if not a handful of them.
The first published graphics card that uses MCM came from AMD. The manufacturer released the Instinct MI200 with several chips in 2021 and also switched to an MCM in the gaming sector with RTX 7000.
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RTX 5090: This is how the card should perform compared to the RTX 4090
The second leak comes from Chiphell user Panzerlied. He had already commented on the RTX 5000 in August, and his information was confirmed by kopite7kimi at the time. Now he wants to know a whole range of values for the new flagship, the RTX 5090. The changes relate to the RTX 4090, as he makes clear in a later post.
His statements at a glance:
- The scale is increased by 50 percent
- Memory bandwidth is increased by 52 percent
- The cache grows by 78 percent
- There is a 15 percent increase in frequency
Overall, this should lead to an improvement of 1.7x.
How Videocardz As stated, scaling probably means the size of the cores. The increase in memory bandwidth would mean a jump to 32 Gbps; according to these leaks, the new flagship would have a clock speed of 2.9 GHz. According to rumors, the cache would increase to 128 MB.
The big picture: Just because a whole new wave of information is coming to light doesn’t mean that the new generation of cards is just around the corner. On the contrary: a release of RTX 5000 is currently not expected before 2025. The Nvidia models will probably not be available next year either.
The long time until the release also means that you should exercise particular caution when classifying the information. Even if the leaks are currently correct, many things can still change before the cards are released, designs can be overturned or new plans can be made.
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What do you all mean? How should you classify the leaks surrounding the RTX 5000? Is the move to an MCM at Nvidia the right decision, perhaps even long overdue? What do you think of the RTX 5090’s alleged performance and hardware improvements? And what do you think Nvidia would have to offer with the new cards to make buyers happy? Write it to us in the comments!
