NVIDIA’s next-gen RTX 50 “Blackwell” graphics cards are yet to be spotted on a public platform. The GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 will likely debut this holiday season (Nov/Dec 2024) or the first quarter of 2025. According to rumors, the Blackwell GPUs will feature GDDR7 graphics memory, a wider memory bus (up to 512-bit), and a denser shading cluster. TSMC’s 4nm-class process technology will be retained, and much of the focus will go into full ray-tracing or path-tracing.
A fresh rumor from Weibo China claims that even the GeForce RTX 40 series notebook GPUs will leverage the next-gen GDDR7 memory standard. The RTX 5060 will succeed the RTX 4060 laptop GPU, the most popular mobility graphics among Steam users.
The upgrade to GDDR7 indicates faster memory clocks, higher clocks, and most likely larger buffers. The GeForce RTX 4060 mobile features 8 GB of GDDR6 memory which can fall short in games like “Black Myth: Wukong” or “The First Descendant.” A 12 GB GDDR7 VRAM buffer should help eliminate memory-related bottlenecks, also improving bandwidth and efficiency.
Speaking of power efficiency, the GeForce RTX 5060 mobile will allegedly have a 20% lower power budget than its predecessor. From 140W on the RTX 4060, the 60-class Blackwell GPU is rumored to top out at 115W while offering 15-25% (just a guess) more performance. Of course, OEMs tend to increase or decrease the TBP as per the form factor, but that’s on them.
The GeForce RTX 5060 will succeed the RTX 4060 laptop GPU as the defacto graphics processor of mainstream gaming laptops. The current notebook market overwhelmingly features the latter as the GPU of choice for mobility devices in the $900 to $1499 range. The RTX 50 laptop processors should land in late Q2 or Q3 2025.
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