Nvidia RTX 5090 PCB leaked, shows 32 GB GDDR7 VRAM and PCIe 5.0 support

Gamers have now gotten a look under the hood of the upcoming RTX 5090, thanks to a new leak that has revealed the PCB design of the GPU. It is rumored that Nvidia will introduce the latest flagship GPU in early January 2025 at CES. The community has already been treated to multiple leaks about the card.

Some of these have talked about a 32 GB GDDR7 video memory buffer, new PCIe 5.0 support, improved rasterization, and ray tracing performance thanks to the Blackwell architecture. The latest leaks seem to add to the list of evidence supporting these claims.

Note: This article is based on leaks and readers are advised to take the information mentioned here with a grain of salt.

The newest leaks come from the Chinese hardware forum Chiphell.com, where user @skanlife has revealed a photo of the base PCB for the card before the video memory chips, the GB202 chip, VRMs, and capacitors have been seated. By the looks of it, the image is likely straight out of an RTX 5090 manufacturing facility.

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What do the latest leaks about the RTX 5090 hint at?

For starters, just by looking at the leaked image, we can expect that the RTX 5090 will be a behemoth of a graphics card, much like the RTX 4090 and the 3090 that preceded it. The image shows a pretty large die area for the GB202 graphics chip that is expected to power the flagship.

User @skanlife had this to say about the leaked images of the PCB. We used Google Translate to convert his comments to English from simplified Chinese:

The graphics memory layout is consistent with the "5452" mentioned by Corgi Dududu, and the core area is quite large.

Another leaked image from user @O-EtaIXVII has given us a look at the furnished PCB with VRAM chip, capacitors, VRMs, and the GB202 graphics processor seated. This picture seems to be that of a sample card probably meant for quality testing purposes as its chip contains the part number "GB202-300-A1 QUAL Sample."

The leaked PCB design has sixteen slots of video memory. The first wave of GDDR7 chips may have 2 GB per chip, likely totaling 32 GB of VRAM on the RTX 5090 SKU. The cards might also bring support for the PCIe 5.0 standard, as per discussions on the Chiphell forum.

While these leaks provide some visual evidence, we still recommend taking the details with a grain of salt.