Nvidia RTX 5050 to 5090 laptop GPUs spotted, suggesting next-gen graphics cards ready for rumored CES 2025 launch
- Nvidia’s RTX 5000 laptop GPUs have been spotted in the PCI ID repository, suggesting their imminent arrival
- RTX 5050 to 5090 Max-Q models are listed, but there is some confusion regarding the chips used
- AD108M is present in the graphics cards lower than the RTX 5080, which must surely be a mistake
Nvidia’s next-gen laptop GPUs have been spotted again, although this mention of the Blackwell mobile graphics cards is strange indeed.
Wccftech reports that a number of Max-Q designs – more power-efficient GPUs for slimmer laptops, as opposed to full-on flavors in powerful gaming laptops – for the RTX 5000 series have been spotted (by HXL on X) in the PCI ID repository
Laptop RTX 50 GB206M/AD108M?🤨https://t.co/prWpILi2rMhttps://t.co/pFXGxXBPvS pic.twitter.com/0o5PNnxEtYJanuary 2, 2025
This is the official public list of ID numbers used with PCI devices, and products may appear here before launch. That’s exactly what’s happened with a number of RTX 5000 models, from the RTX 5050 Max-Q to the flagship RTX 5090 Max-Q (some next-generation Blackwell models have also been previously highlighted).
This is Blackwell’s full list of mobile GPUs, complete with the chips used in these graphics cards listed in brackets at the end:
- GeForce RTX 5090 Max-Q (GB203M)
- GeForce RTX 5080 Max-Q (GB203M)
- GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Max-Q (AD108M)
- GeForce RTX 5070 Max-Q (AD108M)
- GeForce RTX 5060 Max-Q (AD108M)
- GeForce RTX 5050 Max-Q (AD108M)
Sharp-eyed readers will notice the odd element here, namely the mention of ‘AD108M’ as the chip in the graphics cards of the next generation of laptops below the RTX 5080 level.
AD is the Lovelace series, although AD108M is an as-yet unknown mobile part, and so the suggestion here is that Nvidia will somehow use an old chip (once Blackwell launches) for the RTX 5050 to 5070 Ti Max-Q GPUs.
Analysis: Mistakes have (certainly) been made
What exactly should you think about this? I’m inclined to think this must just be a mistake. While it is theoretically conceivable that Nvidia could use last-generation chips when Blackwell laptop GPUs are launched, the said model – AD108M (M means mobile, in case you didn’t know) – would be on the market . at the bottom of the stack, below AD107M, currently the lowest level.
So if this is true, it would mean that the RTX 5070 Ti will use a chip lower in the Lovelace tier than the AD107M found in the RTX 4050 mobile GPU. And that makes no sense at all.
In all likelihood, this must be a mistake. Wccftech points out that Tech Powerup includes AD108M in its listing databasealso among Nvidia’s next-gen GPUs, but those entries have now been removed – so again, this seems to support the theory that it’s just a bug that crept in somehow.
Tech Powerup actually listed both AD108M and GB206M (GB is the Blackwell chip) as two GPU options, but now only GB206M remains. This should be the chip that powers lower level Blackwell GPUs, and perhaps also GB205M, although that is notably not mentioned in these PCI IDs.
All in all, we’d treat this with a lot of skepticism, and the key point here is that it’s yet another waste that indicates that we’ll likely be getting the next generation of laptop GPUs from Nvidia soon – and that past rumors about this are a CES 2025 launch is right. Only time will tell, and we don’t have much time to wait right now, as Nvidia’s big keynote is on January 6, where Blackwell GPUs for desktops are certainly expected (and they could potentially be very power hungry).