Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 won’t launch until several weeks after 5080, says leak

Rumors about Nvidia’s next-gen GPUs are coming thick and fast as we approach the CES 2025 trade show, when Nvidia is expected to unveil its latest graphics cards. According to this latest rumor, the first Nvidia GPU of the new RTX 5000-series to reach the general public won’t be the top-spec RTX 5090, but will instead be the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080, with the flagship 5090 card launching later.

If past performance is a reliable yardstick, these hotly anticipated new Nvidia GPUs will be used on some of the best graphics cards that you can buy when they launch. The RTX 5090 is expected to replace the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 at the top of the food chain, with the RTX 5080 sitting just below it. These new RTX 5000-series GPUs are expected to be unveiled at the CES 2025 trade show in early January.

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