Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 appears to be leaking ahead of a possible CES 2025 announcement
- Images purporting to be of the MSI Gaming Trio RTX 5080 appear online but are quickly deleted
- The images, if legit, support rumors that the RTX 5080 graphics card will be the first to launch after CES 2025
- The photos also seem to confirm some specs for the upcoming GPU
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 appears to have leaked online, thanks to a few photos of the retail packaging of what appears to be an overclocked (OC) version of the card from one of Nvidia’s third-party partners.
Appears on a now deleted ChipHell forum post (according to VideoCardzstating that it managed to obtain the photos posted to the forum before the post was deleted), the retail packaging for what may be the MSI Gaming Trio RTX 5080 is shown from the front and back, revealing some key details about the post seems to confirm new card.
While it must be said that ChipHell’s forums have sometimes provided real photos and detail leaks of graphics cards and PC processors in the past, it is also an internet forum, so you’ll have to take anything posted there with a grain of salt. After all, you can do amazing things with PhotoShop these days and if there’s one thing you need to know about forum posters, it’s that they’re notorious power hunters, so they’re known for making things right for clicks, but also being very friendly. prone to falling for fake photos and ‘leaks’ in the past.
That said, the photos look pretty real at first glance, and the addition of the back of the box seems to confirm a few spec rumors, and the fact that the photos claim to be of the RTX 5080 and not the flagship RTX. 5090, matches rumors that the RTX 5080 will be the first Nvidia Blackwell GPU to hit shelves, possibly as soon as January 21, 2025.
Confirmation of new specifications?
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Besides their mere existence, the two photos also reveal some new details about the new GPU, assuming they are legit.
Firstly, the new card will apparently feature 16GB of GDDR7 memory, as has long been speculated. It can also feature a 256-bit memory bus, like its predecessor. These two specs alone mean it will likely be a monster of a GPU for 4K gaming.
VideoCardz further claims that the card is expected to be the first consumer card to use the PCIe 5.0 interface standard and that the RTX 5080 will use Nvidia’s GB203-400 Blackwell GPU, which is expected to have 10,752 CUDA cores.
If Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture retains the same SM structure as Lovelace (which is likely), that means the RTX 5080 will also have 84 SMs, so 84 ray-tracing cores and 84 tensor cores, a total increase of 5% in the number of cores compared to the RTX 4080Super.
None of this is on the packaging though, so at this point this is all speculation, but with CES 2025 just around the corner, we can expect to find out for sure this time next week.