NVIDIA has revealed the first details of their third generation of RTX GPUs with Ada Lovelace, plus DLSS 3 is coming with big improvements too.
Models announced so far includes:
- RTX 4090 - $1,599 (£1,679) - 24GB GDDR6X - 450W - October 12th
- RTX 4080 - $1,199 (£1,269) - 16gb GDDR6X - 320W or 12GB GDDR6X - 285W at $899 (£949) - (November sometime)
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Some other features mentioned:
- Streaming multiprocessors with up to 83 teraflops of shader power — 2x over the previous generation.
- Third-generation RT Cores with up to 191 effective ray-tracing teraflops — 2.8x over the previous generation.
- Fourth-generation Tensor Cores with up to 1.32 Tensor petaflops — 5x over the previous generation using FP8 acceleration.
- Shader Execution Reordering (SER) that improves execution efficiency by rescheduling shading workloads on the fly to better utilize the GPU’s resources. As significant an innovation as out-of-order execution was for CPUs, SER improves ray-tracing performance up to 3x and in-game frame rates by up to 25%.
- Ada Optical Flow Accelerator with 2x faster performance allows DLSS 3 to predict movement in a scene, enabling the neural network to boost frame rates while maintaining image quality.
- Architectural improvements tightly coupled with custom TSMC 4N process technology results in an up to 2x leap in power efficiency.
- Dual NVIDIA Encoders (NVENC) cut export times by up to half and feature AV1 support. The NVENC AV1 encode is being adopted by OBS, Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve, Discord and more.
During the event they showed off Cyberpunk 2077 and Microsoft Flight Simulator running with DLSS3 and the performance uplift did seem pretty impressive. Oh, and Portal RTX is a thing coming as a free DLC in November.
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"DLSS is one of our best inventions and has made real-time ray tracing possible. DLSS 3 is another quantum leap for gamers and creators," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "Our pioneering work in RTX neural rendering has opened a new universe of possibilities where AI plays a central role in the creation of virtual worlds."
DLSS3 will release with Ada Lovelace on October 12th and these games / engines will support it:
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Oh, they also announced RTX Remix, a free modding platform built in their NVIDIA Omniverse that they say allows people to make RTX mods for various games that include "enhanced materials, full ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS 3, and NVIDIA Reflex". It will support DirectX 8 and DirectX 9 games with fixed function graphics pipelines.
Those with a keen eye might spot a familiar bit of open source tech being used for it too:
DXVK for those who don't quite get it. The same translation tech used in Proton to get Windows games to run with Vulkan. So all mods made with it will run with Vulkan!
See the full video below:
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In other related NVIDIA GPU news, recently EVGA has broken off from NVIDIA and will no longer do their GPUs. In a brief announcement on their official forum they posted:
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.Hi all,
You may have heard some news regarding the next generation products from EVGA. Please see below for a message on future products and support:EVGA is committed to our customers and will continue to offer sales and support on the current lineup. Also, EVGA would like to say thank you to our great community for the many years of support and enthusiasm for EVGA graphics cards.
- EVGA will not carry the next generation graphics cards.
- EVGA will continue to support the existing current generation products.
- EVGA will continue to provide the current generation products.
EVGA Management
TheRiddick Sep 20, 2022
Quoting: MohandevirQuoting: TheRiddickThe 4090 is projected stable TDP of 450W? what was the 3090 TDP?
350W
It's not terrible, I wouldn't trust a 4090TI however!
WayneJetSki Sep 20, 2022
Quoting: MohandevirQuoting: GuestNow that I have my steam deck all those overpriced card can go to miners (if its still a thing) or whatever buy it
Yep! I'll wait for a raytracing enabled Steam Deck... Valve already said it's going to be a thing.
The benefit of ray-tracing on a Steam Deck does not seem worth the loss in battery life. But as a Steam Deck owners, I can agree that sure would be awesome.
Mohandevir Sep 20, 2022
Quoting: TheRiddickYou'd be better to just get a NVIDIA Geforce Now account and streaming it via online, I know lots of people who do that because they've given up on the cost of PC hardware.
That might be right and it's probably part of Nvidia's strategy too. Luckily, being the owner of an Nvidia Shield, I already have a founders subscription, on GeForce Now. So...
Quoting: MohandevirIt showed that they'd been undercharging before. "What the market will bear" has been drummed as the only appropriate price for every product in every industry for generations.Quoting: TheRiddickPrices however are skewed thanks to the crypto craze period where GPUs went up %500 $...
The crypto craze is gone, and it never had any impact on Nvidia or AMD's msrp.
Mohandevir Sep 20, 2022
Quoting: CatKillerQuoting: MohandevirIt showed that they'd been undercharging before. "What the market will bear" has been drummed as the only appropriate price for every product in every industry for generations.Quoting: TheRiddickPrices however are skewed thanks to the crypto craze period where GPUs went up %500 $...
The crypto craze is gone, and it never had any impact on Nvidia or AMD's msrp.
But when the craze is gone, there is an overstock of gpus on the market and prices are collapsing back to normal because the gaming segment can't keep up. The crypto miners might be willing to pay double price, but PC gamers, probably not so much. If Nvidia is basing it's prices on crypto miners' willingness, they might miss the target for the forseeable futur. Now that the Ethereum as fully merged into PoS, let's see how it plays out for Nvidia, with it's traditional market.
Unless Nvidia plans on pushing PC gamers towards GeForce Now with higher price brackets...
Last edited by Mohandevir on 20 September 2022 at 5:39 pm UTC
cookiEoverdose Sep 20, 2022
Mohandevir Sep 20, 2022
Quoting: CatKiller... as they found with the last generation when people were willing to pay way more than Nvidia were charging and all the middle-men were pocketing the difference.
Yep, but these buyers were crypto miners, not PC Gamers, that bought gpus by the dozens. It's two different markets, two different demographics, two different budget ranges. Crypto miners didn't care, they knew mining would recoup the high prices. There is nothing comparable in the PC Gaming space.
Last edited by Mohandevir on 20 September 2022 at 5:32 pm UTC
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