After much anticipation, NVIDIA finally unveiled the next-gen GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs. Promptly called the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 GPUs, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said it's capable of running a fully interactive simulation in ray tracing all the way, including the action physical models.
The RTX 40 Series is empowered by Ada, which Huang quoted as a "quantum leap" thanks to the advancements. There is a new Streaming Multiprocessor, a new RT Core with twice the ray-triangle intersection throughput, and a new Tensor Core with the Hopper FP8 Transformer Engine and 1.4 petaflops of Tensor processor power.
On top of that, the latest version of NVIDIA DLSS technology is also introduced on Ada, alongside DLSS 3. According to NVIDIA, the game performance boost is increased by up to 4x over brute force rendering due to the new frame generated by the AI. Huang said the “DLSS 3 is one of our greatest neural rendering inventions,” and more than 35 games and applications are supporting it.
Compared with the RTX 3090 Ti, the RTX 4090 performs 4x more processing throughput all because of the new aforementioned features. In terms of pricing and availability, the RTX 4090 will be launching on 12 October starting from $1,599 (~RM7304) whereas the RTX 4080 will come in November.
There will be two RTX 4080 configurations - the 16GB model is $1,199 (~RM5477) featuring 9,728 CUDA cores and 16GB of high-speed Micron GDDR6X memory. Finally, the 12GB is $899 (~RM4106) with 7,680 CUDA cores and 12GB of Micron GDDR6X memory.
At the moment, these are the only RTX 40 Series GPUs announced but we think there may be more in the future. Stay tuned for more trending tech news at TechNave.com.
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