Nvidia RTX RTX5080 and RTX5090 are reportedly slated to launch officially in September. We'll believe it once we see them

While there are many exciting Intel Lunar Lake and Ryzen AI300 launches and announcements, one can't resist the excitement of a good old-fashioned launch of a graphics card. Nvidia's RTX series graphics cards are rapidly approaching and could be announced soon.

Benchlife, a Chinese tech website, reports that if its sources are accurate, two next-gen Nvidia graphics cards could launch this month. Benchlife, in machine translation, says that "if all goes well, GeForce RTX RTX RTX RTX RTX RTX RTX RTX RTX RTX RTx 5090/D RTX RTX RTX RTX RTX RTX RTX RTX RTX RT RTX RTX RTX RTX RTX RTX RTX RTX RTX RT If our sources are accurate, more information should be available soon online. The "D" represents variants for the Chinese Market.

This would be a much earlier launch than was originally expected, which was a late-2024 to early-2025 launch.

This would be surprising, but not impossible if Benchlife's reliable sources are correct and an RTX-5080 and RTX-5090 are announced in this month. Nvidia's Blackwell servers chips have been delayed but the consumer chips are completely different. This means that the 50-series GPUs may not be affected by this delay.

While it's true that an announcement doesn't equal a launch, Nvidia would be odd to announce these graphics card long before they are available on the market. The first RTX-40-series GPUs were announced at GTC 2022 in September and launched less that a month later.

Benchlife, based on their factory sources, also claims that the RTX 5090 TGP should be 550 W, and the RTX 5080 TGP should be 350 W. This would make the 5090 TGP 100 W more powerful than the 4090, and the 5080 TGP only 30 W more powerful than the 4080. This 550 W TGP is not the 600 W TGP rumoured to be coming soon for the 5090.

Benchlife suggests that this wattage may not refer to TGP (total graphic power), but rather to the "maximum dissipation abilities of the radiator," and this would make sense. It's not uncommon for cooling to be rated and tested at higher wattages that the GPU TGP. It's because of this that some cards can have their power limits increased: the cooler is capable of handling a higher TGP.

My experience tells me that I should take rumours about power consumption with more than just a pinch. If the rumoured impending news is true, we probably won't wait long to find out.