2 days Ago By [email protected] (John Loeffler)
The GeForce RTX 5080 appears to have leaked online, thanks to a couple of photos of the retail packaging for what appears to be an overclocked (OC) version of the card from one of Nvidia's third-party partners. Appearing on a (according to , which says it managed to grab the photos posted to the forum before the post was deleted), the retail packaging for what may be the Gaming Trio RTX 5080 is shown from the front and the back, appearing to confirm some key details about the new card. While it has to be said that ChipHell's forums have sometimes produced genuine photos and detail leaks of graphics cards and PC processors in the past, it's also an internet forum, so you'll want to take anything posted there with a grain of salt.
After all, you can do amazing things with these days and if there's one thing to know about forum posters, it's that they are notorious clout-chasers, so they've been known to make stuff up for clicks, as well as be very susceptible for falling for fake photos and 'leaks' in the past. That said, the photos do look pretty genuine at first glance, and the inclusion of the back of the retail box appears to confirm a few rumored spec details, and the fact that the photos purport to be of the RTX 5080 and not the flagship RTX 5090, does line up with rumors that the RTX 5080 will be the first Nvidia Blackwell GPU to hit the shelves, possibly as soon as January 21, 2025. Confirmation of new specs? Other than their mere existence, the two photos also reveal some new details about the new GPU, assuming they are legit.
First, the new card will apparently include 16GB GDDR7 memory, as has long been speculated. It may also feature a 256-bit memory bus, much like its predecessor. These two specs alone mean it will likely be a monster of a GPU for gaming.
VideoCardz goes on to claim 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 keeps 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, altogether a 5% increase in core counts over the RTX 4080 Super.
None of this appears on the packaging, however, so at this point, this is all speculation, but with right around the corner, we can expect to know for sure by this time next week..
