Speculation and Rumors: Nvidia Blackwell ...

[DavidGraham]

This looks like a rather meaningless marketing placeholders tbh. All videocards are capable of "neural rendering" and of course there will be "advanced DLSS" and "enhanced RT" on future products.

No no, something is coming ... NVIDIA just released a new SDK for "In-Game Inference".

Integrated with Graphics Pipelines. Offers native integration into game pipelines and simultaneous CUDA and graphics execution with low latency

supports any cloud API endpoint including NVIDIA NIM, as well as local execution on PCs. For local execution, developers can utilize either an in-process execution method to integrate directly with latency-sensitive applications, or an out-of-process execution method that integrates as a service within an application

NVIDIA In-Game Inferencing SDK

Integrate AI models into apps to manage deployment across devices.

developer.nvidia.com

 

[RobertR1]

RTX 5000 will come with a new "neural rendering capabilities" feature, according to marketing points leaked by INNO3D. Also "advanced' DLSS to offer more image quality and faster fps.

https://videocardz.com/newz/inno3d-teases-neural-rendering-and-advanced-dlss-for-geforce-rtx-50-gpus-at-ces-2025

It’s the software side that’s most interesting to me. I’ll also be curious how many of the software improvements are backwards compatible vs just for 5000 series.

Of course a new gen of RT cores is great to see.

 

[IQandHDR]

It’s the software side that’s most interesting to me. I’ll also be curious how many of the software improvements are backwards compatible vs just for 5000 series.

Of course a new gen of RT cores is great to see.

I read somewhere that NVIDIA acutally has more software engineers than hardware enigineers, so would not surpise me one bit if they try and leverage that fact.

 

[Dangerman]

It’s the software side that’s most interesting to me. I’ll also be curious how many of the software improvements are backwards compatible vs just for 5000 series.

Of course a new gen of RT cores is great to see.

I mean Blackwell is intriguing because the new rumoured architectural overhaull which I wonder how well it will be put to use with RT & PT improvements (though Rubin will architecturally just be Blackwell on TSMC N3P for Consumer Desktop, maybe even Chiplets?). Though I suspect GDDR7 will do a some of the heavy lifiting in ray & path-tracing uplift.

 

[Dampf]

I hope for a significant architecture overhaul, not a Ada+. Given how they don't have a node jump this year they need it more than ever.

 

[Dangerman]

I hope for a significant architecture overhaul, not a Ada+. Given how they don't have a node jump this year they need it more than ever.

It seems to be a thing Nvidia does in that everytime the node stagnates is when they do a big architectural leap. Like Maxwell, Turing and now Blackwell.

My prediction is RTX 60/Rubin & RTX 70/Rubin successor will iterate on Blackwell (but probably go chiplet based on RTX 60 or at the latest 70) and then RTX 80 stays on the same node as 70 but does a new big architectural jump and GDDR8.

 

[DegustatoR]

My prediction is RTX 60/Rubin & RTX 70/Rubin successor

Rubin is just a DC part AFAIK. The next gaming part codename isn't leaked yet.

 

[IQandHDR]

Rubin is just a DC part AFAIK. The next gaming part codename isn't leaked yet.

Agreed, hopper never came in any consumer products either:

 

[Broopster]

I do wonder when we might see x1.5 capacity chips though and if that can bring some changes to the Tis and/or a possible Super refresh in 2026.

My understanding is that these are expected to be retail ready around Q3 2025, definitely in time for a refresh. NVIDIA could be keeping the memory speed lower on the 5080 to keep costs down and give them segmentation room for a 24 GB 5080 Super (not that it will matter much since the chip is already fully enabled).

 

[Dangerman]

My understanding is that these are expected to be retail ready around Q3 2025, definitely in time for a refresh. NVIDIA could be keeping the memory speed lower on the 5080 to keep costs down and give them segmentation room for a 24 GB 5080 Super (not that it will matter much since the chip is already fully enabled).

I mean the "400W" rumoured TBP is probably room to upclock for a 5080 Super IMV. Along with a 5090 being "600W" where a 48GB Super refresh with more SMs enabled.

 

[IQandHDR]

I mean the "400W" rumoured TBP is probably room to upclock for a 5080 Super IMV. Along with a 5090 being "600W" where a 48GB Super refresh with more SMs enabled.

The 4090 was rumored to be 600 Watts too, don't believe everything you read online.

 

[Broopster]

I mean the "400W" rumoured TBP is probably room to upclock for a 5080 Super IMV. Along with a 5090 being "600W" where a 48GB Super refresh with more SMs enabled.

I’m sure it’ll be clocked a little higher but I doubt it’ll make a big difference (look at the 4080 Super). The big draw will be the extra VRAM.

I doubt they will release a refresh for the 5090, if they do it would probably just have more SM and faster memory. I do think they’ll release the pro models with GB202 with 3GB memory modules though.