• Photographs purporting to be of the MSI Gaming Trio RTX 5080 appear on-line – nevertheless are shortly deleted
• The pictures, if respected, help rumors that the RTX 5080 graphics card could be the primary to launch after CES 2025
• The pictures moreover appear to confirm quite a lot of the specs for the upcoming GPU

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 appears to have leaked on-line, due to a couple pictures of the retail packaging for what appears to be an overclocked (OC) mannequin of the cardboard from thought-about one among Nvidia’s third-party companions.

Displaying on a now-deleted ChipHell dialogue board submit (consistent with VideoCardz, which says it managed to grab the images posted to the dialogue board sooner than the submit was deleted), the retail packaging for what would be the MSI Gaming Trio RTX 5080 is confirmed from the doorway and the once more, exhibiting to confirm some key particulars regarding the new card.

Whereas it should be talked about that ChipHell’s boards have sometimes produced actual pictures and component leaks of graphics taking part in playing cards and PC processors beforehand, additionally it is an net dialogue board, so it’s possible you’ll want to take one thing posted there with a grain of salt. After all, you’ll be able to do very good points with PhotoShop these days and if there’s one issue to search out out about dialogue board posters, it’s that they are notorious clout-chasers, so that they have been acknowledged to make stuff up for clicks, along with be very inclined for falling for fake pictures and ‘leaks’ beforehand.

That talked about, the images do look pretty actual at first look, and the inclusion of the once more of the retail area appears to confirm quite a lot of rumored spec particulars, and the reality that the images purport to be of the RTX 5080 and by no means the flagship RTX 5090, does line up with rumors that the RTX 5080 could be the primary Nvidia Blackwell GPU to hit the cupboards, in all probability as shortly as January 21, 2025.

Affirmation of newest specs?

Aside from their mere existence, the two pictures moreover reveal some new particulars regarding the new GPU, assuming they’re legit.

First, the model new card will apparently embrace 16GB GDDR7 memory, as has prolonged been speculated. It might moreover perform a 256-bit memory bus, very like its predecessor. These two specs alone indicate it could seemingly be a monster of a GPU for 4K gaming.

VideoCardz goes on to say that the cardboard is predicted to be the first shopper card to utilize 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 construction retains the similar SM development as Lovelace (which might be going), which means the RTX 5080 might also have 84 SMs, so 84 ray-tracing cores and 84 tensor cores, altogether a 5% improve in core counts over the RTX 4080 Large.

None of this appears on the packaging, nonetheless, so at this stage, that’s all speculation, nevertheless with CES 2025 correct throughout the nook, we’re in a position to anticipate to know for sure by this time subsequent week.

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