The leak reveals that the Nvidia RTX 5090 will need an absurd amount of space in your computer

Nvidia’s next-gen GPU lineup is an open secret, and just a month after CES 2025, the names and specs for these potentially massive graphics cards are out. In the latest leak, a graphics OEM spoiled the names of the top five Nvidia cards, incl monstrous RTX 5090. The top-end card in the Blackwell series can take up a lot of space in your computer. At the same time, it requires enough power to make your next itemized electricity bill as big as the card itself.

Card maker Zotac has leaked the SKUs for Nvidia’s next range of cards. VideoCardz taken in Google Search lists CSI tools before Zotac can retrieve the results. The screenshot listings mention the 5090 with 32GB of GDDR7 memory at the top end, confirming an 8GB increase over RTX 4090 is 24GB.

These cards are big losers. The RTX 5090 is supposed to take up three to four slots on your motherboard. The current RTX 4090 takes up three slots on most boards. However, this does not account for length. Nvidia cards are also huge powerhouses. The card manufacturer recommends a power supply between 650W and 750W. Past rumors have hinted that the card itself could have a 600W TGP. Rumor spreader Kotike7kimi, who usually has good results for GPU leaks, tweeted this the card may require slightly less than the total 600W. Either way, the 5080 is a bit more manageable, assuming it requires 400W. The current RTX 4090 has 450W of total graphics power.

Zotac’s leak showed five cards, including the GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5090D (a model made for the Chinese markets), RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070. If you’re wondering where the 5060 or 5050 are, it’s safe to assume that they might do not arrive at the same time as these higher grade cards. Whether Nvidia will announce them at CES 2025 but release them later is another question.

Aside from needing a separate pram inside your PC case to cradle it without knocking over your tower, the confirmed VRAM lends more credence to previous rumors that the 5090 will have 21,760 FP32 CUDA cores, more than double the number on the RTX 4090.

We’d also like to hear from Nvidia itself why it decided to launch the 5070 Ti “Titanium” edition at the same time as its other cards. Nvidia usually releases these versions later as a side release to existing GPUs, as with the 4070 Ti. Nvidia seems to be focusing on the high-end GPUs, leaving the lower-end cards for later.

There’s not much room left for budget builders to hope that the lower-end 50 Series will be cheap. There was much less to do with the 5060 or the alleged 5060 Ti. There are even fewer hints of any kind of RTX 5050. Intel just released theirs budget cards like the B580with claims that it can outperform the RTX 4060 in most games, plus it comes with 12GB of VRAM. Rumors so far suggest that the non-Ti 5060 may have 8GB.