 Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090, released in 2022, the series' flagship unit, in the Founders Edition | |
| Release date | October 12, 2022 |
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| Manufactured by | TSMC |
| Designed by | Nvidia |
| Marketed by | Nvidia |
| Codename | AD10x |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace |
| Models | GeForce RTX series |
| Cores | 20-128 Streaming Multiprocessors (2560–16384 CUDA cores) |
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| Fabrication process | TSMC 4N[1] |
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| API support | |
| DirectX | Direct3D 12.0 Ultimate (feature level 12_2) Shader Model 6.8 |
| OpenCL | OpenCL 3.0[a] |
| OpenGL | OpenGL 4.6 |
| Vulkan | Vulkan 1.3 |
| History | |
| Predecessor | GeForce 30 series |
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The GeForce 40 series is the latest family of consumer-level graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, succeeding the GeForce 30 series. The series was announced on September 20, 2022, at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2022 event.
The RTX 4090 was released as the first model of the series on October 12, 2022, launched for $1,599 US,[1] and the 16GB RTX 4080 was released on November 16, 2022 for $1,199 US. An RTX 4080 12GB was announced in September 2022, originally to be priced at $899 US, however following some controversy in the media it was "unlaunched" by Nvidia. On January 5, 2023, that model would be released as the RTX 4070 Ti for $799 US. The RTX 4070 was then released on April 13, 2023 at $599 US MSRP. The RTX 4060 Ti was released on May 24, 2023 at $399 US, and the RTX 4060 on June 29, 2023, at $299 US. An RTX 4060 Ti 16GB followed on July 18, 2023, at $499 US. On January 8, 2024, Nvidia released the RTX 4070 SUPER at $599, RTX 4070 Ti SUPER at $799 and RTX 4080 SUPER at $999. These video cards were launched at higher specs and lower prices than their original counterparts.[3] In the same vein, the production of the RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Ti have stopped due to the SUPER series, but the 4070 will remain.[4] In August 2024, Nvidia, citing the need "to improve supply and availability", introduced a variant of the RTX 4070 card with GDDR6 running at 20Gbps while all the other specs remain the same.[5][6]
The cards are based on Nvidia's Ada Lovelace architecture and feature Nvidia RTX's third-generation RT cores for hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing, and fourth-generation deep-learning-focused Tensor Cores.
- ^ a b "NVIDIA Delivers Quantum Leap in Performance, Introduces New Era of Neural Rendering With GeForce RTX 40 Series". NVIDIA Newsroom. September 20, 2022. Retrieved October 8, 2022.
- ^ "GeForce RTX 40 Series Laptops". Nvidia.
- ^ "GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series Graphics Cards Launching This January, For Supercharged Gaming & Creating, With Super-Fast AI". NVIDIA. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
- ^ Schilling, Andreas (January 8, 2024). "Dreimal Super: NVIDIA stellt aktualisierte GeForce-Modelle vor". Hardwareluxx (in German). Retrieved January 9, 2024.
- ^ "Black Myth: Wukong & Star Wars™ Outlaws GeForce Game Ready Driver Released". NVIDIA. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Family Graphics Cards". NVIDIA. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
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