NVIDIA also has some extra competition in the mid- to low-end market now that Intel has launched its Battlemage desktop GPUs. The Arc B580 is the first card to hit the market, boasting 12GB of GDDR6 VRAM and a $249 price tag.

Nvidia RTX 5090 has been rumored to guzzle 600W in the past A leaker on X has suggested it might use ‘slightly’ less power This comes alongside assurances that RTX 5070 Ti won’t be a power hog Nvidia’s RTX 5090 might not be quite as much of a power hog as some PC gamers fear based on the latest nugget from the GPU grapevine.

Rumors have suggested that Nvidia will be taking the wraps off of some next-generation RTX 50-series graphics cards at CES in January. And as we get closer to that date, Nvidia's partners and some of the PC makers have begun to inadvertently leak details of the cards.

Going back to Zotac’s leak, using RTX 5090 as an example, there is 32GB of GDDR7 memory on board — a third more than the previous king of the mountain in the RTX 4090. This is the part that gets me a little nervous, as that nullifies the 20% decrease in power demands with more storage.

One example could be Real-Time Neural Radiance Caching for Path Tracing. It's all pretty complicated, but the short version is that it uses AI to enable faster, lower-noise path tracing by handing over the radiance caching to a neural network.

The spec sheets appear written in German, but Acer will likely have similar hardware for its U.S. offerings when it’s official next year. Both Orion rigs will ship with an Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF CPU, 32GB to 128GB of DDR5 RAM, and two 1TB PCIe SSDs, along with Windows 11 Home.

Nvidia’s new RTX 50 series graphics cards are looking like more of a lock for CES 2025 than ever, with Zotac and Acer now having leaked as many as five new GPUs — ones which may also have a new AI trick up their sleeves that we’ve never seen before.