Zotac accidentally lists RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 family weeks before launch — accidental listing seemingly confirms the RTX 5090 with 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM

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Zotac's, not first, not second, but third count of accidentally listing GPUs prematurely has shed light on what Nvidia has been preparing behind the scenes for its RTX 50 lineup of GPUs. Zotac had accidentally put up entries for the RTX 5090/D, RTX 5080, and the RTX 5070 family across its website, which were promptly taken down (H/T to Videocardz for spotting the listings). While most of the aforementioned GPUs have already been leaked, Zotac's recently updated filtering options are the first official source to confirm that the RTX 5090 will ship with 32GB of GDDR7 memory.

The catalog of GPUs includes the RTX 5090 in tandem with its China-specific RTX 5090D variant. Down the stack, we have the RTX 5080 and the RTX 5070 family featuring the base RTX 5070 and the RTX 5070 Ti. It isn't like Nvidia to launch the Ti variants at the beginning of a new generation, as these products typically arrive later as a refresh. Still, this is probably the lineup of GPUs that we should expect from Jensen Huang next month at CES.

The leaked screenshots hint that the RTX 5090 will be as massive as its predecessor, taking up 3.5-4 slots of space in your case. In addition, Zotac updated the filtering criteria in its Graphics Card section to include "GDDR7" and "32GB" options. Drawing a few parallels with everything we know about the RTX 5090, it should be clear that Nvidia is packing its flagship with 32GB of GDDR7 memory - up from 24GB on the RTX 4090.

Summing up everything we know thus far, the RTX 5090 is rumored to be based on Nvidia's GB202 chip - at over 744mm-squared - with 170-enabled SMs (out of 192 in total) and 32GB of GDDR7 memory. The slightly nerfed RTX 5090D should also be built using GB202 with fewer Streaming Multiprocessors - at 150 SMs per our calculations. Further down the list, the RTX 5080 using GB203 silicon drops to just 84 SMs - which is less than half that of the RTX 5090 - and 16GB of memory.

Lastly, the RTX 5070 Ti, per Kopite, will offer 70 SMs featuring the GB203 chip. Other than that, not much is known about the RTX 5070 family apart from a few rumors that slate it for retail in February.

The RTX 50 lineup is expected to employ TSMC's 4NP process (5nm-grade) - said to deliver 30% higher density than 4N used on the RTX 40 series. It is fair to assume Nvidia might introduce the FP4 and FP6 data types natively with the Blackwell on desktop, similar to its server counterpart (B100/B200). Still, there are a lot of nitty-gritty details we don't know so let's leave the architectural changes and pricing structure for Jensen next month.

Hassam Nasir
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Hassam Nasir is a die-hard hardware enthusiast with years of experience as a tech editor and writer, focusing on detailed CPU comparisons and general hardware news. When he’s not working, you’ll find him bending tubes for his ever-evolving custom water-loop gaming rig or benchmarking the latest CPUs and GPUs just for fun.

  • A Stoner
    I hope it is a massive increase in gaming performance and then I can feel bad about having an RTX 4090, but have to look forward to waiting for the 6000 release before I can legitimately argue I should upgrade.
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  • txfeinbergs
    Nah, don't feel bad. I will not be upgrading either from my 4090. What is the point? The only thing that would get me to upgrade is if they lock some great new DLSS technology behind the 5000x series that drastically improves games.
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  • CaptRiker
    have a regular 4080 (bought before super's come out)... not even interested in a 5080.. looks like a weak sidegrade... now if I can get a 5090 for $1599 (4090 msrp), I might be tempted, else ToTaL pass on the 5000 series.. F. NVIDIA!
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  • Notton
    Let me guess, RTX 5090 for the sweet sweet price of $4090

    The 5070 being stuck at 12GB is annoying, but at least the Ti has 16GB.
    There's a big gap between 5090 and 5080, I am guessing they'll launch a 24GB Ti model when enough 24bit GDDR7 is in stock?
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  • Giroro
    A Stoner said:
    I hope it is a massive increase in gaming performance and then I can feel bad about having an RTX 4090, but have to look forward to waiting for the 6000 release before I can legitimately argue I should upgrade.

    It probably won't be some massive increase in gaming, Nvidia is not likely to jump to much more advanced transistors, just to make the same basic thing, but bigger. Most RTX 4090s were bought as entry-level workstation cards for AI workloads and Nvidia knows it. A lot of people were paying $1800 for a gaming card to avoid paying $3500 for a workstation that performed close enough. So there's a good chance the RTX 5090 is not designed for gaming. Although the RTX 4090 also wasn't really meant for home gamers, but non-sponsored people still bought them apparently, so who knows.

    Although there's always still a chance Nvidia severely nerfs the 5090's AI to stop from eating themselves out of their own market. They've always limited compute performance, started limiting hash rates for crypto back when people cared about that, so why not artificially nerf AI? The bump in memory would only be useful for AI, though.

    I expect the price of the new cards to scale linearly with performance again, if not a bit worse. So maybe well get a card that games 15% better than a 4090, but at 20% higher prices and probably >20% higher power consumption. Unless they don't nerf AI, then the price jump could be a lot more. Nvidia wants their $3500 from these people.
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  • helper800
    Giroro said:
    I expect the price of the new cards to scale linearly with performance again, if not a bit worse. So maybe well get a card that games 15% better than a 4090, but at 20% higher prices and probably >20% higher power consumption. Unless they don't nerf AI, then the price jump could be a lot more. Nvidia wants their $3500 from these people.
    If the 5090 only has 15% more gaming performance this would be a complete disaster of a launch...
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  • emike09
    I'd really like to see more than 16GB on the 5080 model. 20GB or 24GB would suffice for this upcoming generation. Several games are already maxing out 16GB, especially with tech like Path tracing. On my 4090, with the OS overhead, I've seen upwards of 21.5GB utilization in select games. Many sitting around 16-18GB utilization.

    Who knows what the next 3 years of game development will bring - 16GB on the 5080 seems like just barely enough for the latest game releases and does not feel future proof. 5070 should be 16GB, and 5060 should be 12GB.
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  • SocDriver
    From everything I am seeing in leaks this generation is going to be a wash, especially if they do another price hike on them. The 5080 getting stuck with only 16GB is the biggest killer, I imagine that will be the bottleneck for the card, just not enough memory to push more performance.

    Also it would be a disaster to leave the 5070 at 12GB of VRAM because if Intel has the same luck with performance leap in the B770 as they did with the B580 its going to crush a 12GB 5070.
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  • Eximo
    I suspect these are likely to come with more onboard cache as well. That may reduce the need for as much memory. 30 series high end has 6MB cache, 40 series topped out at 72MB. AMD at 96MB with the 7000 series.

    Also just because more than 16GB is loaded into the GPU, doesn't mean it is using all of that data. Just that it hadn't needed to offload anything to make room. That is still a good thing, like not needing to swap things from disk to memory. So some shorter load times or the occasional avoidance of a little stutter/frame time variance.

    The real solution is to just drop the settings down a notch or two. If you want top of the line, buy it, don't complain that the cheaper product has less.
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  • purposelycryptic
    The 5090 is almost twice as powerful as the 5080, with twice the RAM, yet the 5070 Ti looks to only be around 20% less powerful than the 5080, with the same amount of RAM...

    Feels like they really should have done more to differentiate the 5080 as a high-tier card, especially since the 5070 Ti looks to be releasing around the same time - as it stands, it almost feels like more like a 5070 Ti Super Deluxe w/ Cheese than a card worthy of having its own tier in the Nvidia hierarchy.

    An extra 8GB of RAM would probably be enough, but really, given the spec delta, the 5080 probably should have been a cut-down 5090 with 24GB, the current 5080 relabeled to 5070 Ti Super, (or whatever), and the rest kept as is.

    Maybe their yields were just too good?
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