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NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPUs For GeForce RTX 40 Series To Bring The Same Generational Jump As Maxwell To Pascal
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Hassan Mujtaba
Aug 1, 2021 12:21 EDT
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards featuring the Ada Lovelace GPU architecture are expected to deliver the same generational performance jump that we saw moving from the 9-series Maxwell GPUs to 10-series Pascal GPUs. The rumor comes from
Ulysses
, who has been talking about NVIDIA's next-gen parts for a while now.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 GPUs With Ada Lovelace Architecture Expected To Deliver Same Generational Jump As We Saw With Maxwell To Pascal
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10 series graphics cards based on the Pascal GPU architecture were a huge performance jump compared to its Maxwell-based GeForce 9 series precessors. The 16nm chips delivered a major improvement to performance, efficiency, and overall value, also marking one of the biggest leaps in 'Ti' graphics performance. The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is still regarded as the best 'Ti' graphics card ever made, a performance jump that NVIDIA has been unable to match with its Turing and Ampere flagships.
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Now the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series is expected to deliver the same generational performance jump over the GeForce RTX 30 series. Based on the Ada Lovelace GPU architecture, the GeForce 40 series graphics cards are
expected to utilize TSMC's 5nm process node
and while they will be very
power-hungry
, their efficiency numbers will go up tremendously thanks to the huge performance jump.
There are also some other details mentioned regarding clock speeds and launch timeframe. We know that the GeForce RTX 40 series is a long way from now and the rumor is that we won't expect these cards to launch until late Q4 2022. This is also due to the fact that NVIDIA will reportedly be offering an intermediate
SUPER refresh of its GeForce RTX 30 series
lineup in 2022. So if that lineup was to come before RTX 40 series, then we can expect the launch to slip further in Q1 2023. This means that AMD might just have its
RDNA 3 lineup
out by the time NVIDIA launches its new GPU family.
In terms of clock speeds, the Ada Lovelace-powered NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs are said to offer clock speeds between 2.2 to 2.5 GHz (boost). This is a nice improvement to 1.7-1.9 GHz clocks that the Ampere architecture churns out currently on average. The Pascal architecture also clocked impressively and was the first GPU architecture to breach the 2.0 GHz clock speed limit however, it is AMD who has taken the clock speed throne with its RDNA 2 GPU architecture which can hit clocks beyond 2.5 GHz with ease.
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Based on these numbers, if the RTX 4090 or whatever the AD102 GPU is featured inside features 18,432 CUDA cores, then we are getting up to 80 TFLOPs of FP32 compute performance at 2.2 GHz which is insane and over 2x the single-precision floating-point jump over RTX 3090. These numbers do align with the rumors that we can expect up to a 2.5x performance jump with the Ada Lovelace-GPUs-based NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 graphics cards.
NVIDIA CUDA GPU (Generational Comparison) Preliminary:
GPU
TU102
GA102
AD102
Architecture
Turing
Ampere
Ada Lovelace
Process
TSMC 12nm NFF
Samsung 8nm
5nm
Graphics Processing Clusters (GPC)
6
7
12
Texture Processing Clusters (TPC)
36
42
72
Streaming Multiprocessors (SM)
72
84
144
CUDA Cores
4608
10752
18432
Theoretical TFLOPs
16.1
37.6
~80 TFLOPs?
Flagship SKU
RTX 2080 Ti
RTX 3090
RTX 4090?
TGP
250W
350W
400-500W
Release
Sep. 2018
Sept. 20
2022 (TBC)
But the biggest question remains, will the NVIDIA GeForce R
TX 40 Series graphics cards with Ada Lovelace GPUs bring back the same pricing as Pascal? Not only was the GTX 1080 Ti the best card for its performance, but it also offered the best value of any 'Ti' graphics card which is why we all loved the Pascal family.The $699 US pricing made the GTX 1080 Ti an amazing value but not only that, but NVIDIA also dropped pricing of its standard lineup to $499 (GTX 1080) and $349 for the GTX 1070 which we definitely should be going back to. However, the rise in component & logistics costs may not bring back the same level of pricing again.
NVIDIA GeForce GPU Segment/Tier Prices
Graphics Segment
2014-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
Titan Tier
Titan X (Maxwell)
Titan X (Pascal)
Titan Xp (Pascal)
Titan V (Volta)
Titan RTX (Turing)
GeForce RTX 3090
Price
$999 US
$1199 US
$1199 US
$2999 US
$2499 US
$1499 US
Ultra Enthusiast Tier
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
Price
$649 US
$649 US
$699 US
$999 US
$999 US
$1199 US
Enthusiast Tier
GeForce GTX 980
GeForce GTX 1080
GeForce GTX 1080
GeForce RTX 2080
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
GeForce RTX 3080
Price
$549 US
$549 US
$549 US
$699 US
$699 US
$699 US
High-End Tier
GeForce GTX 970
GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce RTX 2070
GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
GeForce RTX 3070 TiGeForce RTX 3070
Price
$329 US
$379 US
$379 US
$499 US
$499 US
$599$499
Mainstream Tier
GeForce GTX 960
GeForce GTX 1060
GeForce GTX 1060
GeForce GTX 1060
GeForce RTX 2060 SUPERGeForce RTX 2060GeForce GTX 1660 TiGeForce GTX 1660 SUPERGeForce GTX 1660
GeForce RTX 3060 TiGeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
Price
$199 US
$249 US
$249 US
$249 US
$399 US$349 US$279 US$229 US$219 US
$399 US$329 US
Entry Tier
GTX 750 TiGTX 750
GTX 950
GTX 1050 TiGTX 1050
GTX 1050 TiGTX 1050
GTX 1650 SUPERGTX 1650
TBA
Price
$149 US$119 US
$149 US
$139 US$109 US
$139 US$109 US
$159 US$149 US
TBA
NVIDIA and AMD have really been moving the price bar up for their high-end cards for a while now and unless there's some really heated GPU competition between both with enough supply in the channels, we don't expect 'Ti' variants to fall back down the $1000 US pricing segment.
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Products mentioned in this post
GTX 1070
USD 620.06
GTX 1080
 
rtx 3090
USD 2598
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