I'm hoping for a $699 5090, but I am fully expecting that to be only slightly less likely than a $1600 32GB 5090. We're a year and a half in and you can't even buy a 4090 for $1600 today. Papa Jensen isn't going to bless us with 33% more shaders, bus width and VRAM on a brand new process for the same price as AD102 unless the AI market collapses in the next 6 months. I'd be pretty happy with $1800 and not surprised at 2 grand.
I'd still say 512-bit is the realm of Titan.
Nvidia seems to have decided since Ampere that it works better to market that level of cards as the x090, rather than use the Titan branding.
I think the 5090 is going to be the deepest cut GB202, which the 4090 is not.
Yes it is, unless you count the special version due to the Chinese sanctions. But that is still called a 4090.
or a theoretical 4090Ti.
384 bit not confirmed by leaks, only 512 and 256NV has decided to go for GDDR7 for top 3 dies, then we should be seeing 512-bit GDDR7 after all:-
Pending confirmation...
- RTX-5080 20GB GDDR7 320-BIT 80 MB
- RTX-5080 24GB GDDR7 384-BIT 96 MB
- RTX-5090 32GB GDDR7 512-BIT 112 MB ?
People do want the best chip for the whole generation when they get the xx90 though. The price also reflects that. If NV cripples it too much, with the plan of releasing a successor with significantly more unlocked cores as well as significantly higher memory bandwidth, there will be backlash. It would not be the same as the relatively tame 3090Ti or a theoretical 4090Ti.
The 4090 already feels like this to me. It handles anything I play perfectly, except for a few badly optimized games that look the same on high vs ultra settings or with RT on/off. I would get a 5090 but can't think of any new experiences it would enable. The 4090 actually did enable a lot of new things that the 3090 struggled with, like VR sims.^ I agree. That's why I'm willing to pay whatever nVidia wants for a 5090, particularly if performance is off the chart. Just buy it and don't have to think about a thing for approx 2 years. Can totally coast through the next generation by putting some settings on medium or low, disable shadows and the like while leaving resolution and textures on max -- what I do with latest release titles and still getting 60+ FPS in 4K with my 3090. Totally willing to pay the price. Let's hope it's under $2.5K, though.
So how about it nVidia, I got money for ya. Where's my 5090?
You're in good territory to do what I do, leap-frog generations so you're not spending money each time a new generation comes out unless you positively have to have everything on max in the interim between generations. This is why I'm now just buying the best at the advent of a new generation after seeing how far my 3090 carried me (it runs faster than a stock 3090Ti with ease. I'll miss EVGA.)The 4090 already feels like this to me. It handles anything I play perfectly, except for a few badly optimized games that look the same on high vs ultra settings or with RT on/off. I would get a 5090 but can't think of any new experiences it would enable. The 4090 actually did enable a lot of new things that the 3090 struggled with, like VR sims.
I would expect it to be at least $2500. They have zero competition at the high end except the 4090, which still goes for $2000 or more on most sites.
Looks like the rumors were true: B100 is an MCM (not quite chiplet imo) comprised of two reticle limit TSMC N4P dies connected with a high-bandwidth interconnect, likely NVLink 5 C2C
CPUs with AVX-512 and TBs worth of memory are faster at FP64 in practical terms anyway.they gutted fp64 performance.
The NVIDIA GTC 2024 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 1:00pm PT/20:00 UTC)
www.anandtech.com
Blackwell B100 launching is happening now..
It will be hot. HOT, I tell you. In the very literal sense. Prepare to be toasted in your socks!Predictions?
There's no reason for it to be really cut down. Unless "RTX 5000 Ada Generation" (what a stupid name) is selling out, and I don't think it is.I think the 5090 is going to be the deepest cut GB202