After two years since the presentation and launch of the RTX 30 or 3000, NVIDIA has finally presented its new generation of gaming graphics cards within its GeForce family. This time under Ada Lovelace architecture. What are the specifications of the first graphics cards and what news do the RTX 4000 bring us?
The RTX 4000 are the third generation of NVIDIA graphics cards with the ability to reproduce graphics with Ray Tracing in real time. Although we cannot forget that it will also be the third time that we will see the implementation of its Tensor Cores to accelerate artificial intelligence algorithms. The new architecture codenamed Ada Lovelace It is presented with three initial models: the RTX 4090 24GB, RTX 4080 16GB, and RTX 4080 12GB. And with important novelties with which they want to further reduce the distance with their rivals in terms of performance, especially as far as ray tracing is concerned.
New graphics cards RTX 4090 and RTX 4080
NVIDIA has just presented and confirmed what has been commenting on the network for some time, the name of the new graphics architecture for the RTX 40 or 4000 is called Ada Lovelace and with it they have presented three new graphics cards, which are the most powerful that the company with the green eye has launched to date.
The graphics chips or GPUs that are the heart of the new NVIDIA graphics cards are built under the TSMC 4nm process, so they return to the Taiwanese foundry after their momentary departure with the previous generation, whose chip was manufactured at Samsung under the 8 nm node.
NVIDIA RTX 4090
With the same industrial design as the current generation, but with a larger fan NVIDIA has shown us the first image of its RTX 4090. Which they promise is between 2 and 4 times faster than the 3090 Ti, the most popular graphics card powerful NVIDIA so far. As for its price, at the moment we only know the price of the United States, which will be 1599, dollars, waiting to see the price in Europe. Its release date? The next October 12.
NVIDIA RTX 4080
At the same time, NVIDIA has shown off the RTX 4080, which will be sold in two versions, one 16GB and one 12GB, with the model with more memory having a suggested retail price of $1,199 in the US, for which, as with the RTX 4090, we are still waiting to see the official price in Europe. As for its release date, it is the same as that of its older sister. When it comes to performance, NVIDIA promises 2 to 4 times the performance of the RTX 3080 Ti, but hasn’t specified the model.
Improvements in the Ada Lovelace architecture of the RTX 4000
In addition, NVIDIA has shown the following news regarding the architecture of its new family of graphics cards, among which the following stand out:
- Shader Execution Ordering: Which is analogous to the out-of-order execution of CPUs pushed to GPUs. So NVIDIA has taken a giant step completely abandoning the classic Round Robin method.
- Implementation of real-time noise reduction for the first time on a GPU for scenes created purely with Ray Tracing.
- DLSS 3 introduced with the Ada Lovelace architecture which improves on DLSS 2, quadrupling the frame rate compared to native rendering.
- In terms of Ray Tracing according to NVIDIA, we have gone from the 39 operations per pixel of the NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti launched in 2018 to an equivalent of 635 operations per pixel of the RTX 40 that NVIDIA has just presented. An increase of 60 times from the original. Jen Hsen Huang has made it clear that much of the performance gain comes from prediction through AI and DLSS 3, not just raw power.
- NVIDIA has unveiled the remaster of Valve’s classic Portal, remade using the Omniverse engine and fully rendered via Ray Tracing and NVIDIA DLSS 3. It’s coming out in November for free to owners of the game on Steam.
- RTX Remix, an engine that can capture old games in the Omniverse and allow us to remake them. We simply do not believe this technology is so impressive. It is possibly the thing that has left us the most jaw on the ground and we mean it.
