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Video Cardz did the investigating here, turning up details
Zotac unintentionally aired on its own website, showing us the Blackwell GPUs
that the graphics card maker will firstly debut (in theory, anyway).
Furthermore, Zotac also dropped a tasty nugget of info on the VRAM outline for
what’s surely the next-gen flagship.
The models listed by Zotac – and all the spilled particulars
have now been removed, we should clarify – were as follows:
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090D
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070
The Nvidia RTX 5090D is the optional of the flagship for
China, following in the footsteps of the RTX 4090D, as you’re likely aware.
As for the VRAM info, Zotac has filters for its GPUs to permit
sorting by memory type and capacity, and mistakenly put a GDDR7 choice in the
former, as well as an allocation of 32GB in the latter.
This shows us that RTX 5000 graphics cards will carry GDDR7
VRAM as (heavily) whispered – all models will use this cutting-edge memory, allegedly
– and that there’ll be a 32GB allocation of video RAM in the line-up, as there
isn’t with the current-gen (which tops out at 24GB).
The GPU balancing with 32GB must, of course, be the RTX
5090, and this is what’s already been whispered for the next-gen flagship.
Analysis: What about the RTX 5060, though?
With this kind of work going on with builder websites, in
the background – well, it should have been on the quiet, in the background, but
was accidentally sent live by a Zotac worker, clearly – shows we are about to
get new RTX 5000 GPUs at CES 2025. Although Nvidia has all but said that,
anyway, at this point.
The really exciting bit here is the underlining of the RTX
5090 being a mighty GPU sporting 32GB of video RAM, and the variety of models
available initially, which are as expected, pretty much. Well, the RTX 5090 and
5080 are, anyway, the report mill just isn’t quite sure if we’ll also get the
RTX 5070 or the 5070 Ti – and maybe this is a suggestion that Nvidia will push
out both. Otherwise, perhaps one of those RTX 5070 variants may come slightly
later.
Notably, there’s no mention of the RTX 5060, which has lately
floated up on the rumor winds as a conceivable GPU launch for later in the
first quarter of 2025. Zotac may not be prepping that because it’s a couple of
months down the line from these preliminary launches – or perhaps this is a
hint that this lower-tier Blackwell graphics card won’t turn up until future in
2025.