- Images Allegedly Belong to MSI Gaming Trio RTX 5080 Appear Online, But Quickly Deleted
- The images, if legit, support rumors that the RTX 5080 graphics card will be the first to launch after CES 2025.
- The images also appear to confirm some of the specifications of the upcoming GPU.
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 appears to have leaked online, thanks to a couple of photos of the retail packaging of what appears to be an overclocked (OC) version of the card from one of Nvidia’s third-party partners.
Appearing in a now-deleted ChipHell forum post (according to VideoCardz, which says it managed to capture photos posted to the forum before the post was deleted), the retail packaging of what could be the MSI Gaming Trio RTX 5080 is shown from the front and back, which appear to confirm some key details about the new card.
While it has to be said that the ChipHell forums have sometimes produced genuine photos and detailed leaks of graphics cards and PC processors in the past, it’s also an internet forum, so you’ll want to take everything posted there with a grain of salt. grain of salt After all, you can do amazing things with PhotoShop these days, and if there’s one thing to know about forum posters, it’s that they’re notorious clout hunters, so they’ve been known to make things up for clicks, too. of being very susceptible to falling for fake photos and ‘leaks’ in the past.
That said, the photos look pretty genuine at first glance, and the inclusion of the back of the box seems to confirm some rumored spec details and the fact that the photos purport to be of the RTX 5080 and not the flagship RTX. 5090, matches rumors that the RTX 5080 will be the first Nvidia Blackwell GPU to hit shelves, possibly on January 21, 2025.
Confirmation of new specifications?
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In addition to their mere existence, the two photos also reveal some new details about the new GPU, assuming they are legitimate.
First of all, the new card will apparently include 16GB of GDDR7 memory, as has long been speculated. It may also include a 256-bit memory bus, much like its predecessor. These two specs alone mean it will likely be a monster GPU for 4K gaming.
VideoCardz goes on to state that the card is expected to be the first consumer card to use the PCIe 5.0 interface standard and that the RTX 5080 will use Nvidia’s Blackwell GB203-400 GPU, which is expected to have 10,752 CUDA cores.
If Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture maintains the same SM structure as Lovelace (which is likely), that means that the RTX 5080 will also have 84 SMs, that is, 84 ray tracing cores and 84 tensor cores, in total an increase of the 5% in the number of cores with respect to the RTX. 4080 super.
However, none of this appears on the packaging, so right now this is all speculation, but with CES 2025 just around the corner, we can expect to know for sure by this time next week.
