Nvidia Announces GeForce RTX 4090, 4080 GPUs: Real-Time Ray Tracing, DLSS3, 'Neural Rendering', AV1 Encode
Nvidia has unveiled the first two GPUs in its long-awaited GeForce RTX 40 series, the new GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080. Based on the new 'Ada Lovelace' architecture, these high-end models promise up to 4X the performance of the previous 'Ampere' architecture as well as improved power efficiency. Nvidia has also announced its new DLSS3 image upscaling technology which is said to be able to generate entire frames independent of a PC's CPU. The company says its third-gen ray tracing cores and fourth-gen Tensor cores drastically speed up ray tracing and floating-point acceleration which enable "the age of neural rendering".
Nvidia has announced that graphics cards based on the GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 will be designed and sold by partner brands including Asus, Zotac, Gigabyte, MSI, Innovision 3D, Palit, Colorful, and others. These will include stock and factory-overclocked models. However, there's no mention of any Founders Edition cards sold by Nvidia itself. Pre-built PCs using these GPUs will also be available from Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, Acer, MSI, Alienware, and others.
The new flagship GeForce RTX 4090 GPU contains 76 billion transistors overall. It features 16,384 CUDA cores and cards will feature 24GB of GDDR6X RAM. Power consumption is rated at 450W. With DLSS3 enabled, this GPU is said to be up to 4X faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti with DLSS2. Nvidia also promises consistent >100fps frame rates at 4K in today's games. GeForce RTX 4090 cards will be available worldwide starting October 12, and Nvidia's suggested price is $1,599 (approximately Rs. 1,27,575 before taxes) although partners will set their own prices.
Confusingly, there will be two versions of the GeForce RTX 4080 with
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