Rumor mill: With rumors pointing to a possible July announcement date for Nvidia’s next-generation RTX 4000 collection, the large query shoppers wish to know is which card will arrive first. In accordance with one notable leaker, will probably be the flagship RTX 4090.
As reported by VideoCardz, prolific Twitter leaker Kopite7kimi claims that they’ve “confirmed” Nvidia will likely be taking a special strategy to Ada Lovelace’s launch sequence in comparison with Ampere.
Select B. Confirmed.
— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) May 29, 2022
With the present technology of playing cards, the RTX 3080 arrived first, on September 17, 2020, adopted by the RTX 3090 on September 24, then the RTX 3070 on October 29. Kopite7kimi claims that with Lovelace, Nvidia will launch in reverse order of energy (and expense): RTX 4090 first, adopted by the RTX 4080 and the RTX 4070.
Assuming Nvidia makes use of the identical launch cadence as Ampere and the RTX 4000 collection is introduced in mid-July, the RTX 4090 may launch in August. The RTX 4080 would possibly arrive in the identical month, with the RTX 4070 getting right here in September.
That is all rumor, after all, although Nvidia has reportedly been focusing its improvement on the AD102 GPU discovered within the RTX 4090, additional suggesting the highest product will land first. The cardboard is claimed to function 96MB of L2 cache, 16 instances greater than its predecessor, and a TGP of 600W or extra.
The RTX 4080, in the meantime, is claimed to make use of the AD103 GPU alongside 16GB GDDR6X whereas that includes a 400W TGP. And the RTX 4070 will use an AD104 GPU, 12GB of GDDR6 reminiscence, and have a 300W TGP.
Hopefully, we’ll discover out if the discharge schedules and spec rumors are correct in a couple of weeks. With GPU costs persevering with to fall and availability bettering, the RTX 4000 collection is trying fairly thrilling.
