Nvidia’s RTX 5090 may just come packing manner sooner clock speeds than its predecessor flagship graphics card, or that’s the phrase from the grapevine.
As VideoCardz experiences, over on the Chiphell boards, Panzerlied – a typical supply of leaks, however nonetheless one we must way with some trepidation – reckons that the RTX 5090 will run with a base clock of on the subject of 2.9GHz out of the field.
To place that during point of view, the present Lovelace best canine GPU handiest simply edges over 2.2GHz for its base clock, so the RTX 5090 will probably be very on the subject of 30% sooner than this – if, and it’s a corpulent outdated if, this rumor is proper.
Certainly, even if boosting, the RTX 4090 usually doesn’t get a lot above 2.5GHz (out of the field, with default boosts), let on my own any place close to 3GHz. So, this can be a lovely eye-opening revelation.
Panzerlied additionally just lately knowledgeable us in regards to the RTX 5090 supposedly the usage of a 448-bit reminiscence bus (versus the in the past rumored 512-bit bus), which might imply a VRAM loadout of 28GB (and no longer 32GB – regardless that both manner, that’s an enormous quantity of onboard reminiscence). Have in mind, this will probably be rapid GDDR7 video RAM, too, if the rumor mill is anything else to head by way of (and to be truthful, this is smart, particularly for higher-end Blackwell GPUs).
Research: Curveballs and conflicting rumors
This one is a little of a curveball in some respects. For a base clock velocity, 2.9GHz (or close to) could be an enormous step up. Have in mind, that is the out-of-the-box inventory clock, so the spice up could be larger, and naturally, the prospective to overclock on best of that may be larger nonetheless. You’ll get an RTX 4090 to 3GHz with overclocking (the usage of a very good cooling gadget, and the appropriate technology), so what may we predict from a 5090 on the subject of pushing the GPU to its limits, if it’s no longer that a ways off 3GHz with its mere base clock?
So, we’re discovering this rumor a little tricky to swallow, specifically as it kind of feels to be complicated issues with any other piece of new hypothesis. Particularly, that the RTX 5090 may well be a lot slimmed down, and even perhaps be a two-slot graphics card (fairly than a three-slot-plus affair).
The advice, then, is a far trimmer RTX 5090 that’ll extra simply are compatible for your PC case, with vastly juiced-up clock speeds. Two items of the rumor puzzle that don’t in point of fact are compatible rather well in combination on the subject of believability, let’s be truthful. Until Nvidia in point of fact is operating miracles at the back of the scenes with the next-gen flagship to make it the absolute best GPU ever noticed on the top rate finish of the marketplace.
Different RTX 5090 rumors have contradicted the narrow graphics card principle, thoughts, regardless that we wish to be skeptical about the ones, too. Additionally, with a predicted as much as 70% efficiency spice up (gen-on-gen) up to now, the clock speeds being cranked up significantly may just give an explanation for why Nvidia is getting this sort of large bounce right here. So, the ramped-up clocks could appear the much more likely prospect, arguably, of those two rumor items, however we clearly can’t soar to conclusions.
Regardless of the case, this gained’t hose down expectancies for the RTX 5090 to be a beast of a gaming GPU, and we’ll simply have to attend to listen to any longer chatter on imaginable specifications. We will not be all that a ways off our first leaked symbol, too, which can unquestionably verify the scale rumors, a technique or any other. The RTX 5090 is predicted to debut later in 2024, perhaps in only some months, even though it’s imaginable Nvidia’s RTX 5080 might release a little while forward of it.
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