Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs rumored to come with TSMC 3nm and DisplayPort 2.1 — AMD already offers the standard on the current Radeon RX 7000 series

GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce RTX 4090 (Image credit: Nvidia)

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 40-series GPUs are already among the best graphics cards on the market. Nonetheless, rumors of the next-generation GeForce RTX 50-series (Blackwell) GPUs are already brewing, even if we may not look too keen on this upgrade path. Our friendly neighborhood leaker, kopite7kimi, with a solid track record, has provided details about Ada Lovelace's successor.

According to the leaker, the GeForce RTX 50-series graphics card will reportedly feature TSMC's 3nm process node. It makes sense since the current GeForce RTX 40-series GPUs are on the 5nm process node, so logically, the next step would be 3nm. With the 3nm process node, TSMC promises a performance uplift of up to 15% over the 5nm process node at the same power level and number of transistors. 

Other rumors claim the GeForce RTX 50-series product will feature the PCIe 5.0 interface, which is overkill for mainstream graphics cards. What's likely is that the Blackwell will continue to use the 16-pin power connector, although it'll probably depend on the revised 12v-2x6 version. 

Roshan Ashraf Shaikh
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Roshan Ashraf Shaikh has been in the Indian PC hardware community since the early 2000s and has been building PCs, contributing to many Indian tech forums, & blogs. He operated Hardware BBQ for 11 years and wrote news for eTeknix & TweakTown before joining Tom's Hardware team. Besides tech, he is interested in fighting games, movies, anime, and mechanical watches.