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- Images purporting to be of the MSI Gaming Trio RTX 5080 appear online – but are quickly removed
- The images, if legitimate, support the rumors that the RTX 5080 graphics card will be the first to launch after CES 2025.
- The images also seem to confirm some of the specifications for the upcoming GPU
U Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 seems to have leaked online, thanks to a couple of photos of the sales packaging for what appears to be an overclocked (OC) version of the card from one of Nvidia’s third-party partners.
Appeared on a ChipHell forum post now deleted (according to VideoCardzwho says he was able to capture the photos posted on the forum before the post was deleted), the sales package for what may be the MSI Gaming Trio RTX 5080 is shown from the front and back, which seems to confirm some key details about the new card.
Although it must be said that the ChipHell forums have sometimes produced genuine photos and leaks of details of PC graphics cards and processors in the past, it is also an Internet forum, so you’ll want to take anything posted here with a grain of salt After all, you can do amazing things with it Photoshop these days and if there is one thing to know about forum posters, it is that they are famous influence hunters, so they have been known to do things for clicks, and also to be very susceptible to fall for fake photos and “losses” in the past.
That said, the photos look pretty genuine at first glance, and the inclusion of the back of the retail box seems to confirm a few rumored specs, and the fact that the photos claim to be of the RTX 5080 and not the flagship RTX. 5090, aligns with rumors that the RTX 5080 will be the first Nvidia Blackwell GPU to hit the shelves, possibly as soon as January. 21 of 2025.
Confirmation of the new specs?
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Besides its mere existence, the two photos also reveal some new details about the new GPU, assuming they are legit.
First, the new card will apparently include 16GB of GDDR7 memory, as has long been speculated. It can also be a 256-bit memory bus, like its predecessor. These two specs alone mean that it will probably be a monster of a GPU for 4K toys
VideoCardz continues to claim that the card is expected to be the first consumer card to use the PCIe 5.0 interface standard and that the RTX 5080 will use Nvidia’s GB203-400 Blackwell GPU, which is expected to have 10,752 CUDA cores .
If Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture maintains the same SM structure as Lovelace (which is likely), this means that the RTX 5080 will also have 84 SMs, so 84 ray tracing cores and 84 tensor cores, a total increase of 5% in the number of cores on RTX. 4080 Super.
None of this appears on the packaging, however, so at this point, this is all speculation, but con CES 2025 just around the corner, we can expect to know for sure by this time next week.
