If the new rumors are true, NVIDIA's RTX 5000 graphics card (a product of the consumer version of Blackwell) may be delayed until 2025, but Team Green may have something to fill the gap.
This will be an enhanced version of the RTX 4090 flagship, and if a certain leaker on YouTube is right (with a bit of salt on this point), it could be a bulwark against RDNA 4 this year.
RedgamingTech (RGT) tells us that there are two *** indications that the next-gen Blackwell GPU may be delayed, so NVIDIA has restarted testing the RTX 4090 Super variant. (This was previously rumored to be a super adoption of the formula if NVIDIA was making a faster version of the flagship, albeit an RTX 4090 Ti).
We can also get an RTX Titan GPU on top of the RTX 4090 Super, both of which will be built on the AD102 chip (as shown in the RTX 4090, of course).
Note that Nvidia is only considering doing this now – it may not happen eventually, but this is a path that is currently being explored, and it is theoretically possible that these graphics cards will return to the desktop as a possibility (they have been abandoned before).
The rumored RTX 4090 Super specs show a slight increase in the number of CUDA cores (1,024 more cores), which won't make much of a difference - but better memory bandwidth (with faster VRAM) and theoretically an increase in L2 cache will have more of an impact.
RGT believes that we should expect this refresh to be around 10% faster than the RTX 4090 on average, with performance varying from game to game depending on how much the improvement in memory affects any given game.
As far as we can tell, the more powerful RTX Titan will add more CUDA cores (1,792 more cores than the RTX 4090) and double the VRAM to 48GB (the 4090 Super will stick to 24GB). It may not be much faster than the RTX 4090 Super in many use cases, and the real upgrade is the heavily enhanced** RAM, with the GPU designed for applications that need to be fully utilized.
A major consideration here is whether it's really worth launching the RTX 4090 Super and RTX Titan for Lovelace at this point if NVIDIA can use AD102-based AD102 chips for heavyweight high-performance computing and AI GPUs. You know, these products sell for a lot more than the asking price of this theoretical Lovelace flagship update (and Titan).
However, we can look at it the other way around, and that's what the rgt suggests. This means that Blackwell's heavyweight graphics cards will be prioritized – as a bigger cash cow – so consumer Blackwell RTX 5000 may be delayed as a result (Team Green's next-gen production capacity is somewhat limited).
Given this, NVIDIA may need something to take on AMD in the consumer space in 2024, so this could be the RTX 4090 Super (plus Titan), if only as a morale booster for fans of Team Green and reaffirm its leadership. (Also keep in mind that Team Green could theoretically stay competitive with AMD's next-generation lineup, which looks to perform well on mid-range GPUs, just adjust the pricing of its new RTX Super update).
We don't quite believe it all, but the *** of the RGT shows that this is. In fact, one source says that Blackwell may not launch until the second quarter of 2025, while others aren't even sure it won't be later – which sounds suspicious, especially since other rumors about the RTX 5000 coming in 2025 are very consistent. The end of 2024, or the beginning of next year.
If you're sticking with the RTX 5000 GPU, this could be worrying news, but don't get carried away by any rumors as you have ever been.
Note that if we start to hear about delays from other corners of the rumor mill, it may be time to start listening more carefully to this possibility. Note that the expectation elsewhere at the moment is that while Blackwell should launch later in 2024, we may only debut the RTX 5090, with the rest of the next-gen GPUs coming next year.