NVIDIA has teased the launch event of its next-gen GeForce RTX graphics cards set to take place during GTC 2022. Although this event is known for AI, machine learning, and other scientific implementations of NVIDIA GPGPUs, Jensen has decided to announce the RTX 40 “Lovelace” series GPUs during the same. The below tweet from the GeForce Twitter account points to a 20th September launch/reveal.
It is believed that the high-end and upper midrange SKUs including the RTX 4090, RTX 4080, and the RTX 4070 will be shown off to the public. The GeForce RTX 4060, RTX 4060 Ti, 4070 Ti, and possibly even the RTX 4090 Ti are reportedly going to hit retail in the first half of 2023.
GPU
GA102
AD102
RTX 4090
AD103
RTX 4080
RTX 4070 Ti (AD104)
RTX 4070
Arch
Ampere
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace
Process
Sam 8nm LPP
TSMC 5nm
TSMC 5nm
TSMC 5nm
GPC
7
12
11
7
7
5
5
TPC
42
72
64
42
40
30
30
SMs
84
144
128
84
80
60
60
Shaders
10,752
18,432
16,384
10,752
9,728
7,680
7,680
TP
37.6
~100 TFLOPs?
83 TFLOPs
~50 TFLOPs
47 TFLOPs?
~35 TFLOPs
35 TFLOPs?
Memory
24GB GDDR6X
48GB GDDR6X
24GB GDDR6X
16GB GDDR6X
12GB GDDR6X
L2 Cache
6MB
96MB
72MB
64MB
48MB
Bus Width
384-bit
384-bit
256-bit
192-bit
TGP
350W
600W
450W
450W
285-340W
300W
285W
Launch
Sep 2020
Sept 22?
Sept 22?
Q1 2023?
From what we’ve seen the RTX 40 series cards will offer nearly a 2x performance gain over their 30 series predecessors with a substantial boost in ray-tracing render times. Leveraging TSMC’s 5nm N5 process, NVIDIA has packed a whopping 18,432 cores onto a single die, designing the first consumer GPU to potentially break the 100 TFLOPs barrier.
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