New Nvidia Rubin GPUs to launch much earlier than expected
Nvidia has not yet revealed its first Blackwell architecture GPUs for consumers yet. However, the company is already offering its Ada Lovelace successor at an enterprise level for Generative AI purposes. Surprisingly, the follow-up to Blackwell could be right around the corner.
To recap, we reported only a few days ago that Nvidia will not launch its Rubin architecture until 'well into 2026'. However, it seems that some of Nvidia's partners no longer consider that timeline to be accurate. Instead, the first Rubin-based GPU could arrive in under a year's time utilising HBM4 memory and TSMC N3 (3 nm) nodes.
Specifically, a new roadmap shared by the likes of ITHome and others points to the Rubin architecture being earmarked for Q3 2025, which would be roughly six months earlier than planned. Please note that this is just at an enterprise level and not for consumers. By contrast, Nvidia is expected to replace the likes of the GeForce RTX 4080 Super (curr. $1,029.99 on Amazon) with the Blackwell-based RTX 50 series next month at CES 2025.
