First NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 GPU Custom Model Leaks Out: 16 GB GDDR7 Memory Confirmed

Wccftech : NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080 custom model has leaked for the first time, giving us a taste of the next-gen gaming GPU designs.

[Furesis]

Still with the 16bg? Nvidia is just too dominant, it's the only reason they can get away with this and the pricing.

[ZycoFox]

It's probably "good enough" for a few years, Nvidia have a habit of giving you just enough if anything below the very top card these days.

[Jingsing]

There literally isn't any future proofing an NVIDIA card, They just add new "must have" features that your previous gen card can't do.

[PRIMORDUS]

What can probably hurt Nvidia is that all the tech. youtubers, like Gamers Nexus, JayzTwoCents, etc. the ones that have millions of subs, just bash them and make you not want to buy their GPUs. To the point where Nvidia would really feel it. This should also spread to other sites like WCCFTECH, Tom's Hardware, TechPowerUp, PC World etc. This would put some hurt on Nvidia, and if they lost money good for them. They have enough, damn rich greedy fucks.

[Jingsing]

Those Youtubers were part of the problem for the longest time, they would keep making video pr0n from the free gpu's they would get sent without of real sense of the cost. Now you have a bunch of new upcoming ones who just use their adsense money to do it instead.

[Furesis]

Actually those help them lol, it's an add at the end of the day. For example i'm using youtube and i get recommended one of these videos. Before that i wasn't even thinking/cared of buying anything new but now i'm thinking about it, the seed has been planted, now im looking for a new GPU for example and i dont even realistically need one.

[cluclap]

16gb? Wtf?

[rakentaja]

No competition. They even raise the price and give you the same amount of memory.
Be thankful that the card has 16GB instead of 12GB, with "HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA" written underneath in small font.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

12GB would just doom that card, games from more than a few years were already starting to use 12GB plus. This card isn't going to have many years of longevity before games start exceeding its 16GB limit.

[Shiro173]

Ya do understand is 16gb of gddr7 right?

[cluclap]

That's not the point. If I'm paying 1500+ for a gpu I would want it to have some sort of future proofing. There are already games on the market that hit the 16gb ceiling, I don't expect the card to run future ps6 games at high settings, but at that price point it would've been at least 24gb. This will give more overhead. It's 2025, if next gen starts in 2028 at the minimum those games are going to require 16-24 gb by that time. So you mean to tell me all I get out of a $1500-$2000 card is 3 years?

[Shiro173]

Current cards are GDDR6..... 16g of GDDR7 Is like having 28g to 32g of Gddr6....

[lucasnooker]

I’ve had my PC for 10 years. Bought a Titan X pascal in 2016 and on a i7 5930k. It’s lasted me all of this time but now I’m about to finally bite the bullet and get a 9800x3D and a 5090! :D

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

My PC is getting on in years too, I don't want to replace that 1080ti yet, especially with the price of GPUs, but I'll probably need that GPU upgrade within a few years. I think I'll replace my entire PC at the 10 year mark, or close enough to it.

[lucasnooker]

Well I just noticed I can’t play Indiana jones and this is the first game in history I haven’t physically been able to boot the game because of my hardware. It’s only going to get worse from here…. It’s time…

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I'm not interested in Indiana Jones myself, but I'm normally 2 years behind when it comes to playing AAA games, but I am starting to bump up against the 1080ti's VRAM limits, I can probably hold off a little longer if I have to (just lower the details a little). Hopefully, GPU prices will be a bit more reasonable in 2 or 3 years.

[DivineHand125]

That looks to be a massive jump in performance. It is also the best type of upgrade where you will truly see the difference.

[CDbiggen]

Will definitely upgrade to a 9800x3D this year.

[phatak]

only ones to blame for amd and intel tbh, all they have to do is compete with a similar quality product at the top end, instead they have raised the white flag and said they simply wont compete at the high end, really sucks for anyone looking for the best of the best .

[Killa78]

To an extent... AMD had something at the top end this time, the 7900xtx, but also made it prohibitively expensive.

If they re-release that for half the price, they may be onto a winner.

[XBManiac]

Not really. AMD can launch right now, in Q1 2025, a 3nm updated RDNA4 hardware with chiplet design that will cost a fraction of a 7900XTX and 24GB of VRAM. I'd not be surprised if Radeon RX 9070XT is a 24GB, RDNA4 card with 2 slot design and the same raster performance of a Radeon 7900XT, but 4x the Ray Tracing, as well as added AI electronics, with some kind of next gen specs that will be a presentation of what AMD UDNA will be in 2026. Power consumption is one of my concerns with what NVIDIA will bring... and it can help AMD this time.

[XBManiac]

To compete at the high end, AMD'd need to sell a 2000$ card... Would you buy it, if you have an NVIDIA card at the same price? AMD needs to wait until UDNA is ready, with their chiplet design, new architecture, mature 3rd gen X3D and Unreal 6 already shown.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

And this is why there can NEVER be only ONE console maker. Let this be a lesson to all the console fanboys who only want ONE console on the market. Nvidia has no competition and look how they treat their customers. Over priced cards that still rely on up scaling to get better performance/visuals. BTW I have $2500 saved for the 5090 smh lol

[TheColbertinator]

I think everybody would be a lot happier if only Microsoft was making consoles. Nintendo can become a 3rd party publisher and Sony would go back to making only TVs or something.

[MDTunkown]

You don’t like ps5 pro price ?

[THEzRude]

I might actually just ignore 5K series and just support AMD with their upcoming 9k series.

[DustMan]

Right there with you on this one.

[neutralgamer1992]

24GB should be standard. They have no competetion so they can get away with it all

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Especially on a 80 card, 16GB is still fine for the lower tiers, but the lower tiers are gimped with a lack of VRAM as well (12GB for a 5070? 8GB for a 5060?). If you consider anything below a 90 card from Nividia, you might as well just buy the AMD or Intel equivalent.

[Eidolon]

16GB for their highest end cards shouldn't even be a thing. And with AI ever so popular, we should be hitting 32GB by now.

[vTuro24]

I will stick to my 1070 until that thing turns to dust at this rate.

[Hedstrom]

And the price point is https://media4.giphy.com/me...

[1nsomniac]

Still advertising Afterburner? I thought they discontinued that software a couple of years ago?

[XBManiac]

1.499$ and it is not top of the range? Are we crazy or what? Where are the times when you spent 200$ in a top of the line Graphics card for gaming? I think I will opt for a 499$ AMD card this year to upgrade the 2020's system and I will wait for 2027 generation to change everything in the rig.