Nvidia's next-generation consumer GPU has reportedly been named "Blackwell," especially now that its launch date is ticking closer Nvidia has remained tight-lipped about its latest graphics card, but board manufacturers Rumors seem to be approaching consensus, with reports suggesting that a Q4 2024 launch is expected.

According to MoneyUDN, board partners expect the first launches of high-end cards like the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 later this year (via Videocardz), and analysts are optimistic about the potential for increased shipments and higher average selling prices for graphics card products They are optimistic about the potential for increased shipments and higher average selling prices for graphics card products.

Noted Nvidia leaker Kopite7kimi seems to confirm this speculation, simply responding "True" to a Twitter post detailing the latest rumors.

Of course, this new information is still speculation at this point and should be taken with the appropriate amount of salt. Nevertheless, a Q4 launch this year makes a lot of sense, considering that in the previous generation, Hopper was announced in March 2022, Ada Lovelace in September of the same year, and finally RTX 4090 was released on October 12, 2022.

Nvidia recently announced two huge dual-GPU packages, dubbed the Blackwell B200 and B100, respectively, that will replace Hopper. These AI-crunching monsters, like Hopper, are designed for the commercial market for data center computation, also announced in March.

Who knows if Nvidia intends to maintain the same gap between commercial and consumer GPU announcements, but given the pattern so far, it seems a big stretch to suggest that anything might be announced in September.

This would contradict last year's leaked slides, which suggested the mysterious "Ada Lovelace-Next" to appear in 2025. However, given that information about Nvidia's next-generation consumer GPUs has been thin since then, it is quite possible that the announcement schedule and release dates have changed significantly, even if the slides from that time were accurate.

We are still collecting Blackwell rumors and examining Twitter speculation as to what these GPUs will look like and what kind of performance we can expect.

Still, the announcement of the Blackwell B200/B100 is a good sign of some of the 5th generation Tensor cores, a new decompression engine, and cards likely to be manufactured on TSMC's 4NP process node that may make the leap to the next generation of Nvidia consumer GPUs. gave us a good idea of the features.

Thus the rumor mill runs, but at this point it appears that the hype is building. Time will tell if this speculation is correct, but if so, it shouldn't be long before we get to see this long-awaited next-generation silicon in action.