The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 could be the first Gamer graphics card to exceed 100 TFLOPs

Recent rumors about the next generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 series suggest that the graphics card with the AD102 GPU could be the first gaming product to break the 100 TFLOP barrier.

Currently, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti offers the highest compute performance among all gaming graphics cards, reaching between 40 and 45 TFLOPs. But with the arrival of next-gen GPUs later this year, things are going to take a big boost.

According to rumors from Kopite7kimi and Greymon55, two trusted leakers, NVIDIA’s next-gen graphics cards are expected to hit 100 TFLOPs. In a note today, we announce that AMD will have at most one card with 73 TFLOPsalthough as you will see in the Tweet, kopite7kimi states that AMD is also working on something similar.

Thing is, this would mark a huge milestone in the consumer graphics card market that has definitely seen great performance and also a jump in consumption with the current generation of cards. We went directly from 275 W as the limit to 350-400 W becoming the norm, with an RTX 3090 Ti consuming more than 500 W of power. The next generation will consume even more power, but if computing numbers are anything to go by, then we already know one reason why they will consume so much power.

To be honest, I don’t have much information about AMD. Maybe Lisa and Jensen’s competition will give us a 100TFLOPS gaming war in a few months.

– kopite7kimi (@ kopite7kimi) April 29, 2022

Maybe it’s 90t+ vs 100t+🤔

— Greymon55 (@greymon55) April 30, 2022

According to the report, NVIDIA’s Ada Lovelace GPUs, especially the AD102 chip, have seen a breakthrough in TSMC’s 4N process node. Compared to previous rumors where we spoke that it would have speeds of 2.2-2.4 GHz, current estimates are that NVIDIA will have speeds of 2.8 to 3.0 GHz. Specifically, the company will fuse a total of 18,432 cores along with 96MB of L2 cache and a 384-bit bus interface. These will be stacked in a 12 GPC array layout with 6 TPCs and 2 SMs per TPC for a total of 144 SMs.

If it is clocked at 2.8 GHz, we would have up to 103 TFLOPs of computing performance, and rumors suggest even higher speeds.

With this, we will surely see PC hardware, especially graphics cards, become more powerful, but it will be great to see all that power harnessed to play the next generation of video games, especially 8K titles with RT and future graphic effects.