Nvidia RTX 5050 to 5090 laptop GPUs spotted, suggesting next-gen graphics cards are ready for rumored CES 2025 launch

Nvidia Rtx 5050 to 5090 Laptop Gpus Spotted, Suggesting Next-gen Graphics Cards Are Ready for Rumored Ces 2025 Launch

Nvidia RTX 5050 to 5090 laptop GPUs spotted, suggesting next-gen graphics cards are ready for rumored CES 2025 launch

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  • Nvidia’s RTX 5000 laptop computer GPUs have been sighted within the PCI ID repository, hinting they’re imminent
  • RTX 5050 to 5090 Max-Q fashions are listed, however there’s some confusion regarding the chips used
  • AD108M is current within the graphics playing cards decrease than the RTX 5080, which certainly should be a mistake

Nvidia’s next-gen laptop computer GPUs have been noticed once more, though this point out of the cell Blackwell graphics playing cards is an oddity certainly.

Wccftech studies {that a} bunch of Max-Q designs – extra power-efficient GPUs for slimmer laptops, versus full-fat flavors in beefy gaming laptops – for the RTX 5000 collection have been sighted (by HXL on X) within the PCI ID repository

That is the official public listing of ID numbers used with PCI gadgets, and merchandise can pop up right here earlier than their launch. That’s precisely what’s occurred for quite a few RTX 5000 fashions, from the RTX 5050 Max-Q as much as the flagship RTX 5090 Max-Q, the truth is (some next-gen Blackwell fashions have been flagged up earlier than, too).

That is the complete listing of Blackwell cell GPUs full with the chips utilized in these graphics playing cards that are in brackets on the finish:

  • GeForce RTX 5090 Max-Q (GB203M)
  • GeForce RTX 5080 Max-Q (GB203M)
  • GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Max-Q (AD108M)
  • GeForce RTX 5070 Max-Q (AD108M)
  • GeForce RTX 5060 Max-Q (AD108M)
  • GeForce RTX 5050 Max-Q (AD108M)

Eager-eyed readers will spot the unusual factor right here, which is the point out of ‘AD108M’ because the chip within the next-gen laptop computer graphics playing cards under the RTX 5080 degree.

AD is the Lovelace vary, albeit AD108M is a hitherto unknown cell half, and so the suggestion right here is that Nvidia will in some way be utilizing an outdated chip (as soon as Blackwell is launched) for the RTX 5050 to 5070 Ti Max-Q GPUs.


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Evaluation: Errors have been (certainly) made

What to make of this, precisely? I’m inclined to assume this should merely be an error. Whereas it’s, in concept, conceivable that Nvidia would possibly draft in what’ll be last-gen chips when Blackwell laptop computer GPUs are launched, the talked about mannequin – AD108M (M means Cell, in case you weren’t conscious) – could be on the backside of the stack, beneath AD107M which is at present the bottom tier.

So, if that is correct, it could imply that the RTX 5070 Ti is ready to make use of a chip that’s decrease within the Lovelace pecking order than AD107M which is within the RTX 4050 cell GPU. And that makes lower than no sense in any respect.

Possibly, this must be some form of mistake. Wccftech factors to Tech Powerup itemizing AD108M in its database, too, underneath Nvidia’s next-gen GPUs, however these entries have now been deleted – so once more, this seems to again up the idea that it’s merely an error that has crept in in some way.

Tech Powerup truly listed each AD108M and GB206M (GB being the Blackwell chip) as two GPU choices, however now solely GB206M stays. This needs to be the chip that serves because the engine for decrease tier Blackwell GPUs, and perhaps GB205M too, though that, notably, isn’t talked about in these PCI IDs.

All in all, we’d deal with this with lots of skepticism, and the primary level right here is that it’s one other piece of spillage that signifies we’re more likely to get next-gen laptop computer GPUs very quickly from Nvidia – and that previous rumors of a CES 2025 launch are appropriate. Time will inform, and we don’t have a lot time to attend out now, as Nvidia’s huge keynote is on January 6, the place desktop Blackwell GPUs are definitely anticipated (they usually might doubtlessly be very power-hungry).

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