The Team Green CEO Jensen Huang will unveil the RTX 4090 and possibly the RTX 4080 next week for the opening of GTC on September 20. A commercial launch also seems preplanned for October regarding the 4090 and November for the RTX 4080.
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The high-end RTX 4090 will be the first to launch in the first part of October with limited quantities. Based on the partially disabled AD102 GPU, it will be built around 16,384 cores FP32 and 24GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus and 72MB of L2 cache.
RTX 4080 in two versions but not before November
The RTX 4080 could come in two variants: one with 12GB of GDDR6X memory and the other with 16GB. The first will use a 10-layer PCB and the second will have a 12-layer PCB. Both will take advantage of the AD103 GPU alongside a 256-bit bus and 64 MB of L2 cache. At this point it is difficult to say whether only the amount of memory and obviously the price will be the only differences for these two 4080s. However, current information suggests that the difference in performance between these two versions could be significant. The 12GB version should have a TGP of 285W while the 16GB version could go up to 340W. The last leaks evoke a delta of performance higher than 20 % between the two versions being able to be explained either by a different variation of the GPU, or by higher frequencies.
RTX 4070 for the very end of the year?
Then there’s the RTX 4070, which Jensen might be talking about but doesn’t seem to be scheduled for launch until December (at best). The RTX 4070 will be based on the AD104 GPU with 7,680 shaders on 60 SM coupled with 12GB of GDDR6X memory via a 160 or 192 bit bus. It will have 48 MB of L2 cache and its TGP should rise to 300 W.
RTX 4060: 2023…
Regarding the RTX 4060, we will have to wait until 2023. The most optimists talk of a presentation in the first days of January during the CES for a release during the first quarter. According to the first information on this reference, the performance gain should be less spectacular than that displayed by its big sisters … But it is too early to really tell.
