The Nvidia RTX 4090 is official
That's a wrap on the Nvidia RTX 4090 reveal, which has been a rather raucous 24 hours for us here at TechRadar.
The Nvidia RTX 4090 is on the way, soon to hit store shelves on October 13, 2022, and for the surprisingly "reasonable" price of $1,599. We also got some sense of the Nvidia RTX 4080, including that it will come in two variants, along with the pricing and some limited specs on those.
We got some more details on Nvidia Lovelace, but mostly from the data center side of things, as well as new details on Nvidia DLSS 3.0, which is honestly one of the more impressive elements of the presentation. It should make even the best cheap graphics cards from Nvidia run ridiculously fast.
You can follow along with the reveal as it happened in our live blog recap below, and stay tuned to TechRadar for all the latest details on how well the new RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 stack up against the best graphics cards currently on the market.
With all that, we didn't actually learn that much about the new Nvidia GeForce RTX cards during the presentation, and we'll have to test all the specific claims about their performance for ourselves when we get them in for review.
Perhaps the most exciting part, however, is the next-generation RT and Tensor cores, which should make native RT @ 4K actually playable, and the improvements to DLSS from enhanced tensor cores will likely be the most significant boost for gamers at the end of the day. We certainly can't wait to see how they perform, and we'll be sure to bring you the latest news and spec details as we get them.
A huge thanks to the rest of the TechRadar computing team, including Christian Guyton, Allisa James, and Muskaan Saxena, for all their hard work in covering the Nvidia RTX 4090 launch event.
That's it from me, but I definitely have thoughts, so keep checking in with us during the week as we cover the latest RTX 4090 news, dive into the RTX 3090 vs RTX 4090 debate, and give our expert analysis and opinions on all things Nvidia RTX 4090.
And, as always, be kind to each other.
he Nvidia RTX 4080 is going to come in two variants, a 16GB GDDR6X version for $1,199 and a 12GB GDDR6X version for $899, and while there's no release date per se, Nvidia did say it should be going on sale in November.
The RTX 3080 went on sale for $799, so this is a bit of a bump up in price, which was expected, but this doesn't bode well for the RTX 4080 Ti, which will probably approach the RTX 3090 in price.
It also needs to be said that nobody is asking for digital avatars dwelling like trolls in the uncanny valley. No thanks, Violet, can I speak to a human please?
Next, there's the Nvidia RTX 4090. This is the only graphics card announced today that we have a release date for, October 13. It is also going to retail for $1,599, which is $100 more than the RTX 3090 when it was released in 2020.
We don't have a price for the UK and Australia, but it should come in around £1,250 and AU$2,600.
It will come with 24GB GDDR6X, which is the same as the RTX 3090 Ti. The biggest implication here is for 8K graphics, namely, will this be enough memory to run 8K gaming. That remains to be seen, and we really won't be able to tell until we get an RTX 4090 in for review to test 8K graphics.
Starting with Lovelace, we've got 76 billion transistors, versus Nvidia Ampere's 54 billion transistors. Ampere was a 7nm chip architecture, though, and Lovelace is a 4nm architecture.
These are the full data center chips, however, and the AD102 in the RTX 4090 will be significantly cut down (for reference, the GA102 in the RTX 3090 has 28.3 billion transistors).
So we have clearly moved on to the business-oriented side of the presentation, so lets recap Nvidia's RTX graphics card news.
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