The latest NVIDIA RTX 50 series rumor prices are most likely fake

MLID has shared a slide earlier today with some rumored prices about the NVIDIA RTX 5090, RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 GPUs. However, according to industry insider kopite7kimi, these prices are totally fake.

MLID has shared in the past fake and misleading information. When NVIDIA introduced DLSS 2, MLID stated that the green team was working on DLSS 3 which would be a driver-based feature. Well, we got DLSS 3 but it was nothing like what MLID was claiming.

Now I’m not saying MLID does not have insider sources. They do. However, they’ve also shared misleading information about numerous things. And, from the looks of it, this appears to be one of them.

To put it simply, kopite7kimi is a more reliable source than MLID. So, I trust them more than MLID. It may sound harsh, but it is what it is.

kopite7kimi does not expect a significant price increase for the RTX 5090 (compared to the RTX 4090). To be honest, though, I kind of expect the RTX 5090 to have a $1999 MSRP. That’s the vibe I get from this whole situation. I could be wrong (and let’s hope that I am). However, the most likely scenario is a $1999 MSRP and a $2499 “real” price at the stores. We all know that no one will respect the MSRP price.

Rumors suggest that NVIDIA will reveal its RTX 50 series GPUs at CES 2025. Do not expect the GPUs to come out at CES 2025 though. NVIDIA will most likely reveal them at that event, not launch them. Since CES 2025 is in early January, we can assume that the RTX 5090, RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 will come out in late January or in February.

Last month, kopite7kimi shared some specs for the RTX 5090 and the RTX 5080. According to those specs, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 will have a 2-slot cooler, and it will based on the PG144/145-SKU30. It will also have 21,760 FP32 CUDA cores and 170 SMs. For comparison purposes, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 has 24GB of GDDR6X and a 384-bit bandwidth bus. It also comes with 16,384 FP2 CUDA cores and 128 SMs.

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