Avid gamers and creators ready to see Nvidia’s next-gen RTX 5090 in 2024 ought to hold an in depth eye on what AMD does subsequent yr, since Nvidia could also be timing the RTX 5090 launch primarily based on what AMD does with its personal next-gen GPUs.

In a latest video, tech channel Moore’s Regulation is Useless delved into the potential launch date of the Nvidia RTX 5090, and the launch of the corporate’s next-gen playing cards in 2024 largely hinges on the competitiveness of AMD’s forthcoming RDNA four GPUs in line with an Nvidia supply.

The supply signifies that Nvidia’s new client structure, primarily based on the forthcoming Nvidia Blackwell GPU structure, is being prepped for a potential launch within the fourth quarter of 2024 relying on how nicely gross sales of its present RTX 40-series maintain up in 2024 (particularly with the discharge of the brand new RTX Tremendous SKUs anticipated in January 2024) and whether or not AMD’s next-gen playing cards, anticipated to concentrate on the mid-range market, influence Nvidia’s year-end gross sales.

Regardless of AMD’s RDNA four GPUs concentrating on the mid-range section, a profitable launch may problem Nvidia’s dominance within the high-end market as nicely, which could power Nvidia to introduce a brand new flagship graphics card to attract consideration again to the GeForce line. No less than that is the considering.

No matter what occurs in 2024, PC Gamer notes that Nvidia plans to closely promote the RTX 5000 collection on the Shopper Electronics Present (CES) in 2025, indicating a launch of next-gen GPUs by early 2025.

This timeline is sooner than preliminary experiences that instructed Nvidia’s next-gen playing cards may not arrive till later in 2025, however even the accelerated timeline nonetheless places the brand new GPUs a yr away on the earliest.

How onerous is Nvidia going to lean into the graphics card market in 2024?

The true query right here although is whether or not any of it will even matter by the top of 2024. 

Nvidia turned a trillion greenback firm nearly in a single day due to its AI chip prowess, and although AMD and Intel are positioning themselves to rival Workforce Inexperienced on this house, Nvidia’s first-mover benefit right here is just about a goose laying a ton of golden eggs. 

Nvidia does not have its personal fabs, not like Intel, so the quantity of silicon they will leverage is at all times going to be restricted, and as I have been saying for a lot of months now, Nvidia is not lengthy for the buyer graphics card market. The earnings to be made in AI are simply too astronomical to disregard and they’re considerably increased than no matter margins Nvidia can get off promoting graphics playing cards to avid gamers.

It is no shock then when, in line with a profile in The New Yorker, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang himself emailed the corporate just a few months in the past saying that “We’re now not a graphics firm.”

With all that in thoughts, will there even be an RTX 5090 in 2025? How a lot cash will Nvidia make on an RTX 5090 and what are the very actual alternative value given up when the silicon within the RTX 5090 may as an alternative be put into new AI chips that Nvidia can promote to Google and Open AI for just about no matter it desires?

All that is still to be seen, nevertheless it’s fairly clear that Nvidia has some fairly consequential selections to make, no matter what AMD tries to do.

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