NVIDIA RTX 50 cards will use Samsung’s GDDR7 chips

Rumors have been circulating for some time indicating that the new cards from NVIDIA of the line GeForce, the family RTX 50will use memory chips based on technology GDDR7. A RTX 5090for example, must be equipped with 32 GB of GDDR7, while the RTX 5080 will have 16 GB and RTX 5070 with 12GB. But who will be the supplier of these chips? According to information circulating in Korea, the Samsung will be the company responsible for this crucial part of the hardware.

Samsung will be the supplier of the GDDR7 chips for the RTX 50

Samsung is a former partner of NVIDIA and will once again be alongside the GeForce card giant, this time as the company responsible for supplying the DRAM chips that will equip the RTX 50 line cards. In the previous two series, RTX 40 and RTX 30, the supplier it was Micron, which, together with Samsung and SK Hynix, forms the main trio of chip manufacturers for the VGA market, serving both NVIDIA and AMD.

NVIDIA must use 28 Gbps and 32 Gbps dies in its new cards. According to the Korean website Greened.krNVIDIA chose Samsung due to the proven quality of the chips in rigorous verification and validation tests. Since last year, NVIDIA has been working on testing chip samples sent by Samsung.

When will RTX 50 cards be released?

The expectation is that NVIDIA will present the first options in the RTX 50 line, based on the Blackwell architecture, during CES 2025, which will take place in January. Initially, three models are expected to be launched: RTX 5090, RTX 5080 and RTX 5070.

With these new features, the market is eagerly awaiting to see the impact of the new generation of GeForce cards both in terms of performance and technological advances.