After weeks of teasers, Nvidia has unveiled the next generation of PC graphics cards: the Ada Lovelace generation of RTX 4000 GPUs. On Tuesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled two new models with pricing and release dates: the RTX 4090, which will cost a whopping $1,599, and the RTX 40 8 0, which will launch in two configurations.
The pricier card, scheduled to launch on October 12, is in the same top-tier category as the company’s 2020 2020 megaton RTX 3090 (previously labeled by the company as its “Titan”product). Its jump in physical size will require three slots on your chosen PC build. The specs point to a high-end GPU, with 16,384 CUDA cores compared to the 3090’s 10,496 CUDA cores, and a clock speed of 2.52GHz compared to the 3090’s 1.695GHz. Both of these 4090 jumps run at the same power of 450W. envelope as 3090. Its RAM allocation will remain 24GB of GDDR6X memory.
This jump in performance is partly driven by long-standing rumors of Nvidia’s move to TSMC’s “4N”process, which is a new generation of 5nm chips and a significant jump in efficiency from what the previous generation of Ampere relied on an 8nm process.
Meanwhile, the RTX 4080 will be available in “November” in two WeUs: a 12GB GDDR6X model (192-bit bus) starting at $899 and a 16GB GDDR6X model (256-bit bus) starting at $1,199.
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