• Photos purporting to be of the MSI Gaming Trio RTX 5080 seem on-line – however are shortly deleted
• The photographs, if reputable, assist rumors that the RTX 5080 graphics card would be the first to launch after CES 2025
• The images additionally seem to verify a number of the specs for the upcoming GPU

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 seems to have leaked on-line, due to a few photographs of the retail packaging for what seems to be an overclocked (OC) model of the cardboard from considered one of Nvidia’s third-party companions.

Showing on a now-deleted ChipHell discussion board submit (in keeping with VideoCardz, which says it managed to seize the photographs posted to the discussion board earlier than the submit was deleted), the retail packaging for what will be the MSI Gaming Trio RTX 5080 is proven from the entrance and the again, showing to verify some key particulars in regards to the new card.

Whereas it must be mentioned that ChipHell’s boards have typically produced real photographs and element leaks of graphics playing cards and PC processors previously, it is also an web discussion board, so you may wish to take something posted there with a grain of salt. In spite of everything, you are able to do superb issues with PhotoShop lately and if there’s one factor to find out about discussion board posters, it is that they’re infamous clout-chasers, so they have been recognized to make stuff up for clicks, in addition to be very prone for falling for pretend photographs and ‘leaks’ previously.

That mentioned, the photographs do look fairly real at first look, and the inclusion of the again of the retail field seems to verify a number of rumored spec particulars, and the truth that the photographs purport to be of the RTX 5080 and never the flagship RTX 5090, does line up with rumors that the RTX 5080 would be the first Nvidia Blackwell GPU to hit the cabinets, probably as quickly as January 21, 2025.

Affirmation of latest specs?

Apart from their mere existence, the 2 photographs additionally reveal some new particulars in regards to the new GPU, assuming they’re legit.

First, the brand new card will apparently embrace 16GB GDDR7 reminiscence, as has lengthy been speculated. It could additionally function a 256-bit reminiscence bus, very like its predecessor. These two specs alone imply it can seemingly be a monster of a GPU for 4K gaming.

VideoCardz goes on to say that the cardboard is predicted to be the primary client card to make use of the PCIe 5.0 interface commonplace and that the RTX 5080 will use Nvidia’s GB203-400 Blackwell GPU, which is predicted to have 10,752 CUDA cores.

If Nvidia’s Blackwell structure retains the identical SM construction as Lovelace (which is probably going), meaning the RTX 5080 may also have 84 SMs, so 84 ray-tracing cores and 84 tensor cores, altogether a 5% enhance in core counts over the RTX 4080 Tremendous.

None of this seems on the packaging, nonetheless, so at this level, that is all hypothesis, however with CES 2025 proper across the nook, we are able to anticipate to know for certain by this time subsequent week.

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