Nvidia RTX 5070 could launch at CES 2025, and rumored spec – including 12GB of VRAM – means everyone hates this GPU already

This also makes us wonder if the RTX 5060 will get an 8GB helping of video RAM

· TechRadar

News By Darren Allan published 10 October 2024

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Nvidia’s RTX 5070 is apparently going to be revealed at CES 2025, alongside the rumored RTX 5080 and 5090 next-gen graphics cards.

This is a notable change in the way the rumor winds are blowing, as up until now, we’ve been hearing that it’s just the RTX 5080 and 5090 that’ll be the initial Blackwell GPUs to pitch up from Nvidia.

Wccftech has made this claim, and also provides some spec revelations for the RTX 5070, after speaking to sources (who yesterday delivered a leak on the RTX 5080 getting speedier VRAM). Furthermore, two leakers on X have chimed in, not disagreeing with the tech site, and providing their own take on the spec of the RTX 5070.

Wccftech believes that the RTX 5070 will use the GB205 chip, but doesn’t give us a core count. We’re also told that the graphics card will run with a 192-bit memory bus and 12GB of VRAM (GDDR7). This will be the slower flavor of GDDR7, 28Gbps, which will also be on board the RTX 5090 (but the 5080 will get the 32Gbps memory, if Wccftech’s sources are correct, that is).

For the RTX 5070, then, we’re looking at a total memory bandwidth of 672GB/s, quite a bit less than the RTX 5080’s supposed 1024GB/s, but a good chunk more than the RTX 4070 (a third more, in fact).

However, we’re told power usage will also creep up for the RTX 5070, and that it’ll chug 250W (compared to 200W for the RTX 4070).

Leaker Harukaze5719 backs up these specs entirely, while adding a purported core count, namely 6,400. Another regular leaker on X, Kopite7kimi, backs up the 250W TDP theory, too (and the 12GB of VRAM assertion, for that matter).

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