Leaked Nvidia RTX 5000 Specs Indicate a Massive Increase in CUDA Cores

Some fresh and exciting leaks about the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 series have just landed, and although it’s probably going to be a while before the next generation hits the stores, the online buzz is real. Word on the virtual street suggests the upcoming Blackwell GPU architecture might be getting a massive increase in its CUDA core count, leaving the current high-end GeForce RTX 4000 cards to die in the dust.

The whispers we’re hearing about an internal Nvidia roadmap are hinting at a 2025 release date for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 lineup. We know the current GPUs seem to be wrapping up with no more releases on the horizon. But, the future is looking pretty bright, and all eyes are peeled to see what amazing stuff Nvidia is going to unveil.

Giving us the inside scoop is the trusty Nvidia leaker kopite7kimi. He is saying that the flagship Blackwell GB202 GPU die, which might power up the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090, is looking at boasting a colossal 192 Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs). For those of you crunching the numbers, that’s a mind-blowing 24,576 CUDA core count.

As I mentioned before, GA100 is 8*8, and GH100 is 8*9. GB100 will have a basic structure like 8*10. GB202 looks like 12*8.

— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) September 28, 2023

Let’s talk about Nvidia’s current big kahuna, the GeForce RTX 4090. This graphics card is running on an ADA102 die with 18,432 CUDA cores. But get this: the leaks are hinting that the RTX 5000-series die might pack a staggering 33 percent more CUDA cores. That’s right; we’re potentially looking at a beefed-up 24,576 CUDA core count.

But hang on a sec, let’s not get too carried away. Even the beastly RTX 4090 isn’t using all of its 18,432 CUDA cores – it’s tapping into 16,384 of them. So, it’s totally reasonable that the GeForce RTX 5090 might not even need the full 24,576 CUDA cores that the die can deliver.

And there’s more goodness in the pipeline. Rumors are flying that other specs are getting bumped up too. We might see the Texture Processor Clusters (TPCs) leap from 72 to a solid 96. Meanwhile, the Graphics Processing Clusters (GPCs) are chilling at 12, and there could be a big jump in memory bandwidth with a 512-bit bus.

Of course, all these tasty tidbits are still in the rumor oven, baking away. We’ll have to chill until Nvidia dishes out an official statement on the GeForce RTX 5000 GPU features. If these rumors hit the mark, Nvidia is on track to roll out some seriously epic graphics cards in the next-gen.