New report points to VRAM speed upgrade for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 as Blackwell GPU named
Wccftech has shared new insights into the state of the GeForce RTX 5080, which is expected to sit below the RTX 5090 in NVIDIA's upcoming Blackwell architecture release. Please note that Wccftech has not provided any evidence for its claims. Instead, it defers to unnamed 'sources'.
Thus, we would recommend treating its information with a hint of scepticism for now. To that end, Wccftech claims that NVIDIA plans to source 16 GB of VRAM GDDR7 VRAM clocked at 32 Gbps for the RTX 5080, not 28 Gbps as previous rumours suggested. Currently being sampled by graphics card manufacturers according to VideoCardz, 32 Gbps VRAM may well also by headed to the RTX 5090, although Wccftech has not commented on this yet.
Nonetheless, the website adds that this VRAM would operate on a 256-bit bus to deliver a 1,024 GB/s peak memory bandwidth. Moreover, Wccftech believes that this fast VRAM in the RTX 5080 would be paired with a GB203-400 GPU that has 10,752 CUDA cores and 84 Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs) at its disposal. Thus, the RTX 5080 may debut during CES 2025 next January as a faster but less power-hungry alternative to the RTX 4080, even with its relative memory constraints.
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Wccftech via IT Home & VideoCardz
