A video has been released showing what is said to be Nvidia’s next GeForce RTX 5090 being powered up at the factory. The leak comes from Chiphell’s thread (spotted by Everest of X), which leads to Bilibili’s video.
This footage shows a number of production line debugging systems on the left, one of which successfully boots into Windows. Seeing this, the workers are happy that this could be one of the first launches of the RTX 5090. It appears that the RTX 5090 has completed the validation phase and is moving into mass production, which could be just around the corner.
Interesting information about the location of the factory has been shared on various social media in China. The Bilibili video claims that US sanctions will impact RTX 5090 sales to China, as GPUs with more processing power than the RTX 4090D are prohibited from being exported. To minimize losses, Zotac has reportedly set up a factory in Batam, Indonesia, to maintain supply lines with China.
The RTX 5090 visually appears to use a single power connector, dispelling rumors about the need for dual 16-pin connectors. The video narration reports that the cooler is slightly larger than the RTX 4090, but not by much. This rumored RTX 5090 will likely belong to Zotac’s GAMING family, with a triple fan layout and possibly a three or four slot design.
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According to recent rumors, the RTX 5090 will be powered by a GB202 chip, hosting over 20,000 CUDA cores and 32GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit memory interface. Nvidia is expected to announce the GeForce RTX 50 (Blackwell) series at CES 2025 next January, and by then we’ll know whether this leak is true or not.
