According to a report, the NVIDIA RTX 4090 was delayed until the end of the year

NVIDIA’s next generation RTX 40 Series graphics cards were scheduled to arrive in August and now appear to be launching later in the year. Based on TSMC’s 5nm process, the GeForce RTX 4080 and 4090 are expected to arrive with up to 18,432 in 144 SM and 12 GPC. ANDThis indicates that the AD102 will likely be a derivative of the GH100, with the FP64 cores trimmed and additional L2 cache and RT cores.

Rumor has it that NVIDIA’s next-gen GeForce RTX 4080/4090 GPUs won’t be up to par with AMD’s Radeon RX 7800 XT/7900 XT (rumors always say the same thing and that never happens…). According to the source, the best NVIDIA can currently do is improve the Series 40’s performance by 60-80% compared to existing Ampere cards. While this is very good, it is still a level below what AMD’s Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7900 XT will be capable of.

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On top of this, these GPUs will feature GDDR7 memory (either super-fast GDDR7 or GDDR6/6X) with up to a 384-bit memory bus, resulting in over 1200GB/s of external bandwidth. High-end RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 GPUs will have a TDP of up to 600W on factory overclocked models and slightly lower on Founders Edition cards.

As I said at the beginning of the note, it seems that the launch of the GeForce RTX 4080/4090 may be delayed until the end of the year, December. At the moment, all sources point to an August/September release, and some of this delay may be a result of the recent hack or excessively high power consumption of these new VGAs.