Nvidia RTX 5000 laptop GPU spec leak disappoints some gamers – but it’s not all bad news
Nvidia’s RTX 5000 graphics cards, known as Blackwell, will be not only desktop products, but also laptop GPUs – and we’ve just witnessed a major leak in their memory gear, as well as a possible release date for the mobile products.
VideoCardz noted the Blackwell info dump that comes from laptop manufacturer Clevo and is apparently an unfortunate side effect of a ransomware attack (well, too bad for the company, but not for us gamers eager to learn more about RTX 5000 mobile GPUs).
As shared by security researcher Dominic Alvieri on Take it with the same amount of spices you would apply to any rumor.
RansomHub publishes ODM and OEM laptop maker Clevo from Taiwan, whose customers include Nvidia, Intel, Micron and AMD. pic.twitter.com/fMUGnMTjdqJune 3, 2024
The top two models, GN22-X11 and This includes an X7 model with 12GB of GDDR7, and the remaining models, the X6, X4 and
We can guess that the bottom three models with 8GB will be the RTX 5070, 5060 and the 5050 – but this is just speculation (and it’s not clear where the X7 tier with 12GB fits – as an RTX 5070 Ti perhaps? ).
The bottom three GPUs will apparently be based on a different board than the top three, and will be released later in 2025. If Clevo’s alleged leak is true, the top three GPUs led by the RTX 5090 will be in production by January 2025. , while the other GPUs will arrive in March 2025. So they won’t be far behind.
As rumored, Blackwell’s desktop graphics cards should debut first, later this year, with the RTX 5080 and 5090 possibly hitting shelves by the end of 2024. Although it should be noted that there are whispers of a delay until 2025 – but that would obviously not happen if the laptop GPUs arrive in January 2025. (Well, unless the desktop GPU release is a ‘paper launch’, which, to be fair, is another theory aired in the past).
Analysis: Modest VRAM increases in some places, but an 8GB bottleneck
There are a number of interesting nuggets revealed in this leak, not least Nvidia’s welcome move to boost its lowest-end Blackwell GPU – which will presumably be the RTX 5050 – with 8GB of VRAM. If you remember, that’s a lot more than the RTX 4050 mobile that was running at 6GB. We say this is welcome, but it’s undoubtedly considered more of a necessary step by most gamers.
Indeed, there are those who are quite furious about the possibility that the RTX 5070 will only work with 8GB – possibly to push people to the tier above, which could be a 5070 Ti variant with 12GB, as mentioned. The good news on the high end, however, is that it looks like the RTX 5080 will need to be bumped up from 12GB (in the 4080) to 16GB.
Additionally, Blackwell laptops’ lower-end GPUs are tamed somewhat for their power consumption, with the second wave of lower-end offerings (X6, X4, We can hope that this indicates a better level of power efficiency for these next-gen GPUs, and it will certainly help to have lower power consumption when running in the tight confines of a gaming laptop chassis – hopefully not at a significant cost cost. in terms of performance.
According to the leak, Nvidia will also continue to supply some current mobile GPUs as budget efforts in 2025 to complement the Blackwell range. While that’s standard practice, it’s certainly interesting to see those plans, and they include servicing the RTX 4050 (6GB) and 3050 (6GB), and indeed the 2050 (4GB). However, the latter will only last for a while before the aging RTX 2050 is replaced at some point by a new 4GB spin on the RTX 3050.
As always with any leak, cover this with a whole lot of salt, and keep in mind that details that might have been true when this material was put together could have changed (or could still change over time).