Nvidia’s upcoming top GPU is taking its sweet time to make it to the market, and by the sound of it, we won’t see it anytime soon. According to a new report from Benchlife, as well as various other sources, Nvidia is planning to unveil the RTX 50-series at CES 2025 in January. This means that the RTX 5090 is unlikely to make an appearance any sooner than three to four months from now. On the upside, we just learned even more about what the card’s going to offer.
After a few months of managing expectations, many GPU enthusiasts no longer expect the RTX 50-series to be released this year — and leakers agree. Following the huge specification leak we got yesterday, at least two new publications (both Benchlife and The Verge) are now claiming that Nvidia won’t announce its next-gen GPUs until 2025. Reputable hardware leakers like kopite7kimi have also previously said that early 2025 is the current target.
If you asked me at the beginning of 2024, I’d have expected to see the RTX 5090 hitting the shelves around October. And it’s not just Nvidia. The general expectation was that we’d see all three GPU manufacturers — AMD, Nvidia, and Intel — launch their new graphics cards in 2024. However, for months now, we’ve been getting signs that this might turn out to be a disappointing year for PC hardware. The year might come to an end with next to no GPU releases outside of the RTX 40-series refresh and AMD’s RX 7600 XT. There was also the RX 7900 GRE, but that’s a 2023 GPU that only got a worldwide release earlier this year.
The release date reports are disappointing, but not at all surprising. The good news is that the spec leak from yesterday opened the floodgates on what else we can expect from the RTX 5090. For starters, Nvidia is said to be switching to the PCIe 5.0 interface, which means that you’ll need a recent processor and a solid motherboard with PCIe Gen 5 support to make the most of the GPU.
We’re also going to see an upgrade to a DisplayPort 2.1a connection with full support for UHBR20, which stands for ultra-high bit rate and delivers much higher bandwidth than its predecessor. The card is also said to come with a 14-layer printed circuit board (PCB). Yesterday, we learned that the RTX 5090 will sport 21,760 CUDA cores, a 512-bit memory bus, and 32GB of GDDR7 memory. Remember that all of this is unconfirmed, so don’t take any of that information for granted.
Not getting the RTX 5090 and the RTX 5080 released this year means that Nvidia may miss out on an important opportunity. The final quarter of the year is typically the best one for PC sales, and we’ve gotten used to seeing new Nvidia GPUs around that time during the RTX generations. However, with rumors saying that Nvidia is only now getting close to finalizing the specs for its flagship card, it feels like all hope of a 2024 launch is gone at this point — but we won’t know anything for certain until Nvidia itself makes an announcement.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.