- Retailers have leaked incoming Asus laptops with RTX 5000 GPU
- Nvidia RTX 5090, 5080 and 5070 Ti models have been detected
- This is an indication that the rumors about a desktop RTX 5070 Ti are correct
Asus has some new gaming laptops with Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell mobile GPUs on board, and Intel Arrow Lake chips too, and details have leaked through some leaks from online retailers.
VideoCardz was on the case here, noting leaks revealing five different Asus laptops with Nvidia RTX 5000 graphics cards, including a really robust-sounding ROG Strix laptop.
Add appropriate seasoning here as with any leak, and we should note at the outset that Nvidia Blackwell GPU models are not listed by their full name, such as RTX 5090. Instead, codenames are used, for example GN22-X11 in the case of the flagship. We know which graphics cards those codenames correspond to based on a bunch of previous leaks, but we still have to be careful not to make too many assumptions.
So in theory, the Asus ROG Strix G835 will have that RTX 5090 on board (with 16GB of VRAM) and an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX (Arrow Lake) processor, backed by 64GB of DDR5 system memory. It is indeed a powerful set of components, and the G835 will be powered by an 18-inch display with a resolution of 2048 x 1536, according to its leaked listing.
We can also see the Asus ROG Zephyrus GU605 which will apparently offer options on three Nvidia GPUs: RTX 5090, 5080 and 5070 Ti. That laptop is configured to use an Intel Core Ultra 9 285H CPU, again with 64GB of DDR5 system RAM and a 16-inch display.
Two Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 laptops and one ROG Strix G16 model have also published their specifications online, making them three in total, running RTX 5090, 5080, and 5070 Ti GPUs respectively.
Analysis: A series of Blackwell launches at CES 2025?
This seems to back up some previous rumors that suggested we’ll see RTX 5000 laptop GPUs at CES 2025, alongside Blackwell desktop graphics cards.
According to this spill, we will see three mobile models on offer, in the form of the RTX 5090, 5080 and 5070 Ti, although there could also be lower-tier models.
When Nvidia launched its current generation of mobile GPUs at CES 2023, we were presented with a full house of the entire range: the RTX 4050, 4060, 4070, 4080 and 4090 GPUs. Note that they were all base versions, so it’s interesting to see a supposed RTX 5070 Ti mobile appearing on this occasion.
On the desktop front, it’s thought that of Nvidia’s next-gen offerings, we’ll see RTX 5090 and 5080 models at CES in January, and possibly one or the other of the RTX 5070 or RTX 5070 Ti, perhaps even both.
So is the appearance of the mobile RTX 5070 Ti a sign that we’ll have it on desktop too? It could be, but whatever the case, we’ll probably see some Blackwell GeForce GPUs revealed for both desktop PCs and gaming laptops at CES 2025. We may also see Nvidia DLSS 4.
