Rumor mill: We all know that Nvidia is going to unveil the RTX 5000 Blackwell series of consumer graphics cards in a few days, but what else will Team Green reveal at CES? Many expect the next generation of DLSS technology, DLSS 4, to be on show. Now, what appears to be a listing for a custom variant of the RTX 5080 has confirmed the new upscaling tech.
Nvidia, you may remember, announced DLSS 3 during the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 launch back in September 2022. It’s reasonable to expect that the fourth generation of the upscaler will be unveiled during the RTX 5000 event.
Adding to the speculation is an apparent screenshot of an Asus RTX 5080 listing from a European retailer. It’s priced at 1,699 Euros, around $1,749, and seems to confirm the card’s rumored use of GDDR7 memory.
RTX 5080 – 1699euro Asus price ~1349$ (no vat/tax) pic.twitter.com/ui24JcWqNQ
– Tomasz Gawroński (@GawroskiT) January 2, 2025
That’s a high price, though it includes 20% value added tax (VAT), so it would actually be 1,359 Euros, or $1,399. It’s also worth remembering that AIB partner cards, especially those from Asus, tend to be priced higher than reference versions due to added bells and whistles such as factory overclocking.
The listing also mentions DLSS4. This could just be a faked image, of course, but prolific and usually accurate leaker kopite7kimi replied to skepticism of the post on X by saying “DLSS4 is true.”
DLSS4 is true.
– kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) January 3, 2025
Earlier this month, Nvidia board partner Inno3D revealed some of the AI-assisted features that it planned to showcase at CES. There was mention of Advanced DLSS technology, which could be a reference to DLSS 4.
Something else that Inno3D mentioned was Neural Rendering Capabilities, which it claims will revolutionize how graphics are processed and displayed.
It’s possible that neural rendering will be part of DLSS 4, much like Frame Generation is with DLSS 3. As with FG, it wouldn’t be surprising if Nvidia made it exclusive to the company’s newest series of graphics cards.
Unsurprisingly, AMD is also believed to be unveiling the next version of its upscaling tech, FSR 4, at CES. Team Red is said to be skipping the Radeon RX 8000 nomenclature in favor of the RX 9000 series, though none of its cards are expected to compete with Nvidia’s flagships.