– A video from an Indonesian factory appears to show an early production test of Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 5090 graphics card. The video shows one of the cards successfully booting into Windows, prompting cheers from the factory workers.
– The factory is reportedly located in Batam, Indonesia. This is likely done to avoid US sanctions that restrict exporting more powerful GPUs than the RTX 4090D to China. Zotac is speculated to have set up the Indonesian factory to continue supplying China.
– Details about the purported RTX 5090 in the video: it uses a single 16-pin power connector, has a slightly larger cooler than the RTX 4090, and belongs to Zotac’s GAMING line with a triple-fan cooler.
– Rumors suggest the RTX 5090 will use the GB202 chip with over 20,000 CUDA cores and 32GB of GDDR7 memory. Nvidia may announce the RTX 50 series at CES 2025 in January.
– If real, this early production test suggests the RTX 5090 is moving beyond validation and into mass production soon. However, we won’t know for sure until Nvidia makes an official announcement.
Source: Tom’s Hardware
