Nvidia RTX 40 Series release date, pricing and spec rumors

Interestingly, other insiders also seem to believe that the RTX 4090 will be the first – and possibly only – 40-series to launch in 2022.

This includes Twitter leader Greymon55, who in an updated forecast suggests the RTX 4090 will arrive this year, with the rest of the RTX 40 series arriving sometime in 2023. Cause, for a leakit’s “too much stock”.

This refers to rumors that Nvidia is left with a lot of stock of RTX 30 series GPUs due to overproduction and a glut in the used GPU market amid the latest cryptocurrency crash.

Speeding up release of RTX 4070, RTX 4080 and other 40-series GPUs gives Nvidia an extra few months to move remaining 30-series inventory without potential loss a lot of of money.

How much will the Nvidia RTX 40 Series cost?

The release of Nvidia’s RTX 40 Series is still a long way off, so it’s hard to say how much the next-gen lineup might cost right now, although we can take a look at the current RTX 30 series as a guideline.

As a reminder, here’s what the current RTX 30 Series lineup looks like:

Starting at just £299 / $329, the Nvidia RTX 3060 is cheaper than competing GPUs from AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series, and the hope is that Nvidia will continue this trend with the next-gen 40 series – after all, there have been significant leaps in price. performance in the 30 series compared to its predecessor, and it still had a competitive price.

The issue that most of you reading this will be painfully aware of is lack of inventory, which is causing GPU prices to skyrocket and resellers to raise prices to never before seen levels – it’s not uncommon to see an RTX 3070. £469 card/$499, double that amount. Worst part? People actually pay these prices.

Nvidia may have seen gamers willing to pay far more than the MSRP for their graphics cards, which could prompt the company to raise the price of the RTX 40 series – something similar is rumored to be happening with AMD’s rival Radeon RX 7000 series.

Let’s hope that doesn’t happen; I think we all need a break from expensive GPUs after the current shortage is over.

The good news is that Nvidia is increasing inventory of the RTX 30 series, with Nvidia CFO Colette Kress confirming at an investor event in March 2022 that “we’ll have a good supply situation in the second half.” [of 2022]”, which should lead to better prices.

Kress also teased the idea of ​​continuing to sell the RTX 30 series alongside the 40 series in order to give consumers more choice and, most importantly, supply.

“Even during this period of COVID and supply restrictions, it was interesting because it gave us the opportunity for games to continue to sell both the current generation (RTX 30 series) and Turing generation (RTX 20 series),” explained Kress. “So we’re doing this to give our players more and more options. And we may see something similar in the future.”

What to expect from the Nvidia RTX 40 Series?

Ada Lovelace’s 5nm architecture

twitter leader @Greymon55 suggests that Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 40 series will be based on Ada Lovelace’s GPU architecture – a creation-related figure believed to be the first computer programs back in the 1800s for those who don’t know.

The new range is also expected to be based on TSMC’s 5nm process, up from 8nm in the current range. It is currently unknown if it is based on the standard N5 or N5P node.

The 5nm process has been mentioned several times in various reports – most recently from DigiTimes – suggesting that this claim could be weighty.

Performance improvements

Despite the huge performance boost offered by the RTX 30 series over the 20 series, the RTX 40 series is expected to offer a similar performance boost over the current top-end RTX 3090, a graphics card with an MSRP of £1,399 each. $1499

hearing comes from a leader on Twitter @TtLexington that suggests Nvidia’s RTX 40 series could offer the same overall performance jump over the RTX 30 series, offering roughly a 2x overall performance jump thanks to Ada Lovelace’s GPU architecture and the 5nm chipset at the heart of the range.

There are also rumors that the new RTX 40 series could be clocked at 2.2 to 2.5 GHz (boosted), offering a decent jump over the current 1.7-1.9 GHz clock speeds offered by the current Ampere architecture.

Nvidia RTX 4070

Little is known about Nvidia’s next-generation mid-range graphics card at the moment, but this rumored that the Nvidia RTX 4070 could have 10GB or 12GB of slightly slower GDDR5 video memory clocked at 18Gbps and a TDP of 300W.

If true, that’s a 2/4GB increase in total VRAM over the 8GB GDDR6X 3070 Ti, albeit with slower memory and therefore a slightly lower clock speed.

Nvidia RTX 4080

As with the RTX 4070, there isn’t much to do with the flagship RTX 4080.

Rumors suggest that it can offer up to 16GB of GDDR6X VRAM at 21Gb/s, a 4GB increase from 12GB with GDDRX RTX 3080 Ti support with a boosted 420W TDP, but that’s all we know right now.

Nvidia RTX 4090

While not much is known about the rest of the lineup, the same cannot be said for the RTX 4090. Leaker @kopite7kimi has revealed a few key specs for the top RTX 4090, giving us the most complete picture of the rumors. GPU today.

According to the source, the RTX 4090 will have 126 streaming multiprocessors providing a total of 16,128 CUDA cores and will have 24GB of GDDR6X memory clocked at 21Gbps. This assumes a 384-bit memory bus and more than 1 TB/s bandwidth.

However, despite the top-end specs, an insider suggests it will have the same 450W TDP as its predecessor, rather than the expected 600W. Videocardz is suggesting that Nvidia may refrain from an inevitable follow-up to the RTX 4090 Ti with a rumored 144 streaming multiprocessor pushing the CUDA core count to 18,432, but this has yet to be confirmed.

Then in mid-July, a source revealed that the RTX 4090 desktop GPU scored over 19,000 on the 3DMark Time Spy Extreme benchmark test. If true, the RTX 4090 would be Nvidia’s most powerful card to date, nearly doubling the stock RTX 3090 and even surpassing the current number 1 result achieved by the EVGA RTX 3090 Ti Kingpin Edition with LN2 cooling by an impressive 30%. .