Divining the Nvidia Blackwell RTX 50-series GPUs from some alpha-numeric runes
Everyone's getting very excited about a few numbers, and rumoured codenames, that have 'leaked' around the upcoming Nvidia Blackwell graphics silicon set to launch in 2025. As usual, this has descended into a lot of folk attempting to read these alpha-numeric runes and come up with their own theories on the next generation of GeForce GPUs.
All told, this latest generation of graphics cards has been a bit of a disappointment. Because of the way the Nvidia lineup has been stratified each seems to be at least one level too expensive for the GPU specs and performance they're offering. Well, apart from the top-end RTX 4090, which is the ludicrous GPU you'd always hope the top chip would be, though it could be said that it's just be so much silicon smoke and mirrors obscuring the mess of cards below it.
On the AMD side, we're eight months into its Radeon RX 7000-series generation and we've still only got three (and a half) cards to show for it. With rumours of failed chips and a retreat from the high end for its own next-gen GPUs to come.
Which I guess is why the supposed leak of a handful of numbers potentially related to a new generation of Nvidia graphics cards has created such interest. But, let me reiterate, this is all rumour and speculation as the green team isn't likely to say anything about it until well into 2024 at the earliest.
The crux of this latest flurry of next-gen GPU chat is a post on the Chinese tech forum, Chiphell, which indicates the Blackwell architecture will come with a slightly different lineup to the Ada Lovelace GPU naming scheme of the current generation. Videocardz hit up noted leaker and Liverpool fan, Kopite7Kimi, about the rumour and received what they believe is the full GPU lineup for
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