“When’s the next one coming out?” It’s that nagging little query that haunts PC builders earlier than each main buy. That’s very true for graphics playing cards, the place the subsequent improve may be a tepid replace or a literal game-changer. In accordance with a latest presentation, Nvidia could also be aiming for a 2025 launch window for the subsequent main improve to its GPUs, the RTX 50 collection.
The information comes from a presentation given to the MLCommons (machine studying) consortium, of which Nvidia is a founding member. The slide noticed by German website HardwareLuxx (by way of VideoCardz) locations the “Ada Lovelace-Next” GPU structure squarely, if imprecisely, within the first half of 2025. That might put an RTX 5090 launch (or regardless of the preliminary flagship known as) at rather less than three years after the Ada Lovelace-based RTX 4090.
That’s a bit longer than Nvidia followers are used to, however given the final slowdown in new GPU designs, not completely shocking. An preliminary launch early in 2025 would additionally imply we’re extra prone to see extra mainstream playing cards, presumably an RTX 5070, earlier than the tip of the calendar 12 months. And, whereas this info comes straight from an Nvidia presentation, we should always stress that company timelines like this are at all times topic to vary. The very best-laid plans of mice and worldwide chip megacorps, you recognize.
Past the date, all we will do is speculate, so making an attempt to nail down something like efficiency or value for eventual retail merchandise is nigh on pointless. The identical slide signifies an early 2024 refresh for the Hopper datacenter GPU and 2025 for the Grace ARM-based CPU structure (the next-gen model of the Tegra chips which are discovered within the Nvidia SHIELD set-top field and Nintendo Swap), neither of which is especially related for PC {hardware}.
For the sake of comparability, rumors place Intel’s second-gen “Battlemage” playing cards at a mid-2024 launch, and AMD’s RDNA 4-based playing cards (RX 8000 collection, presumably) aren’t anticipated earlier than 2025. In fact, new mid-tier and low-end playing cards in each collection would possibly pop up earlier than then.
