- A shipping manifest has detailed what looks like a professional workstation card
- It may be the successor to Nvidia’s RTX 6000 ADA, the most expensive graphics card in the world
- Based on RTX5090 it is expected to have a huge 96 GB, twice for that for predecessor
GeForce RTX 5090, the latest flagship graphics card for players and ads in Nvidia’s GeForce 50 series, was revealed on CES 2025 and just gone on sale -but tight before it made rumors started to swirl off an RTX 5090 TI model with a full Enabled GB202-200-A1 GPU and double 12V-2 × 6 power plug, which theoretically allows for up to 1,200 watt power.
This speculation began to follow the appearance of a prototype image on the Chinese industrial forum Chiphell – Reporting on the picture, Computer base Said: “With 24,576 Shaders, the GB202-200-A1 GPU is said to offer 192 active streaming multi-processors, which were previously rumored to be the full expansion of the GB202 chip. It is said that memory continues to offer 32 GB of capacity, but with 32 Gbps instead of 28 GBPs it will exceed the 2TB/s mark. “
Shortly after the engineering card appeared online, Computer base ALSOSPOTED SHIPPING DOCUMENTS ON NBD data showing a graphics card with 96 GB GDDR7 memory, marked as “for testing.” It is a reasonable assumption that this unidentified model is actually a professional workstation card, potentially – let’s say probably – RTX 6000 Blackwell.
Useful for AI applications
GeForce RTX 5090 has 32 GB GDDR7 using sixteen 2 GB modules connected via a 512-bit memory interface. 48 GB would be possible if sixteen 3 GB of chips were used instead of 2 GB of chips.
If two of these 3 GB chips were connected to each 32-bit controller, placed 16 chips on both the front and the back of the graphics card in a “clam shell” configuration, mentioned 96 GB in the documents-which is twice as much as the RTX 6000 Ada, the most expensive graphics card in the world – would become a reality.
The shipping register shows that these GPUs use a 512-bit memory bus that strengthens this theory. The internal PCB designation PG153, seen in the documents, is in line with known Nvidia Blackwell design and has not yet appeared in any existing consumer graphics card.
NVIDIA is expected to introduce the RTX Blackwell series to workstations at its annual GPU technology conference (GTC 2025), so we should know more about them coming March 2025. And yes, if you think of 96 GB GDDR7 memory is excessive for games or creative Purpose I agree with you. However, it is a good amount for AI assignments, so we can expect to see Nvidia announces an AI version of the RTX 6000 Blackwell when it finally removes the wrapping of its next gene product.
