RTX 40 graphics cards look set to get a big increase in shader count and L2 cache

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The fallout from the weekend cyberattack on Nvidia continues. It seems like we’re getting daily drips of information as the hackers attempt to pressure Nvidia to cave into demands including the removal of LHR mining limiters.

The first bit of new information indicates that the RTX 40 GPUs will contain significantly higher shader counts than those of RTX 30 GPUs. Starting at the top of the range, the AD102 GPU is set to include up to 18432 so-called CUDA cores. That's a huge jump from the maximum 10752 of the GA102 that you’d find in the fully unlocked (and for now non-existent) RTX 3090 Ti.

The AD103 GPU could end up as the flagship laptop GPU, as the current GA103 is now. It could also end up in cards like a hypothetically named RTX 4070. It carries the same 10752 shader count of the GA102, and though that count is likely to be that of the fully unlocked chip, it could mean that a next gen RTX 4070 Ti will deliver performance on par with — if not better- than an RTX 3090.

The GPUs from lower in the range don’t get as large a bump in shader count. The AD104, with up to 7680 cores is set to replace the 6144 core GA104, as found in the RTX 3070 Ti. We can expect this to end up in RTX 4060 Ti and 4070 class cards. Of course, we are a long way from launch and even if the GPUs themselves are in full production right now, we don’t know anything about yields. Nvidia will certainly harvest cut down variants like they do now. Clocks and shader counts for individual models are likely not finalised at this stage.

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