The latest news surrounding Nvidia’s highly anticipated next generation of graphics cards is that the RTX 5000 series – specifically the RTX 5090 flagship, will be announced in early January at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The event runs from Jan 7th-11th so in around five weeks the new cards could be announced with availability following soon after.
While a CES announcement for the RTX 5000 series was generally expected, this is the first concrete bit of news to suggest an early January launch and comes from Nvidia graphics card partner Inno3D, who’s representative at a Brazilian livestream event let slip the company was expecting to have RTX 5090 samples in three weeks.
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January launch confirmed
According to a source attending the call who spoke to Videocardz, the representative seemed to regret giving that timeline, but instead continued to confirm that the RTX 5090 would officially be announced at CES 2025 in January – itself still a newsworthy statement. This would also fit in with the timeline of samples arriving with companies such as Inno3D who would then create materials for the launch and carry out internal testing with their own coolers and other features that differentiate one particular graphics card model across the various partner card manufacturers.
The end of production of the RTX 4090 was reported back in September giving further weight to an imminent RTX 5090 launch. As for the other models, Nvidia looks likely to release the RTX 5070 and above in Q1, so by March the likes of the RTX 5070, 5080 and any Ti-named models should be available. Most rumors so far point at January or February for those models, but the curious news from the Inno3D representative about the RTX 5090 begs the question why that particular card was singled out.
Obviously the likely reason is that it will be announced first or in the first wave, with staggered launches being common in past Nvidia releases. Current Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals will likely aid in clearing current inventories, clearing the way for RTX 5000 cards to hit the shelves.
Watch out for Intel’s Arc Battlemage
It’s not the only company launching graphics cards, though, as Intel has just announced it plans to beat Nvidia to the finish line and release two new Arcseries ‘Battlemage’ graphics cards as early as mid December. According to Videocardz, the two new graphics cards will be named the Arc B580 and Arc B570. Based on the naming scheme of it’s initial Arc series, this would suggest its
It’s been a rather poor year for PC hardware launches, with little going on until the latter half of the year, which saw disappointing launches from AMD and Intel. First AMD’s Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 launch proved disappointing, followed by an equally lacklustre release for Intel’s Core Ultra 200-series processors. Thankfully, AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D proved to be a hit and coupled with discounts for Ryzen 7000 models, have certainly given would-be upgraders to Nvidia’s RTX 5000 series reasons to overhaul their PCs this Christmas.