- Photographs purporting to be of the MSI Gaming Trio RTX 5080 seem on-line – however are rapidly deleted
- The pictures, if professional, assist rumors that the RTX 5080 graphics card would be the first to launch after CES 2025
- The images additionally seem to verify among the specs for the upcoming GPU
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 seems to have leaked on-line, because of a few images of the retail packaging for what seems to be an overclocked (OC) model of the cardboard from certainly one of Nvidia’s third-party companions.
Showing on a now-deleted ChipHell discussion board submit (in line with VideoCardz, which says it managed to seize the images posted to the discussion board earlier than the submit was deleted), the retail packaging for what would be the MSI Gaming Trio RTX 5080 is proven from the entrance and the again, showing to verify some key particulars in regards to the new card.
Whereas it must be mentioned that ChipHell’s boards have generally produced real images and element leaks of graphics playing cards and PC processors previously, it is also an web discussion board, so you will need to take something posted there with a grain of salt. In any case, you are able to do wonderful issues with PhotoShop nowadays and if there’s one factor to find out about discussion board posters, it is that they’re infamous clout-chasers, so they have been recognized to make stuff up for clicks, in addition to be very inclined for falling for pretend images and ‘leaks’ previously.
That mentioned, the images do look fairly real at first look, and the inclusion of the again of the retail field seems to verify a couple of rumored spec particulars, and the truth that the images purport to be of the RTX 5080 and never the flagship RTX 5090, does line up with rumors that the RTX 5080 would be the first Nvidia Blackwell GPU to hit the cabinets, presumably as quickly as January 21, 2025.
Affirmation of latest specs?
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Aside from their mere existence, the 2 images additionally reveal some new particulars in regards to the new GPU, assuming they’re legit.
First, the brand new card will apparently embrace 16GB GDDR7 reminiscence, as has lengthy been speculated. It might additionally function a 256-bit reminiscence bus, very similar to its predecessor. These two specs alone imply it would doubtless be a monster of a GPU for 4K gaming.
VideoCardz goes on to say that the cardboard is anticipated to be the primary shopper card to make use of the PCIe 5.0 interface customary and that the RTX 5080 will use Nvidia’s GB203-400 Blackwell GPU, which is anticipated to have 10,752 CUDA cores.
If Nvidia’s Blackwell structure retains the identical SM construction as Lovelace (which is probably going), which means the RTX 5080 can even have 84 SMs, so 84 ray-tracing cores and 84 tensor cores, altogether a 5% enhance in core counts over the RTX 4080 Tremendous.
None of this seems on the packaging, nonetheless, so at this level, that is all hypothesis, however with CES 2025 proper across the nook, we are able to anticipate to know for certain by this time subsequent week.