Thursday, September 15th 2022
NVIDIA Confirms GeForce "Ada" Launch tied to "Project Beyond," Drops a Sneaky Phone Number
NVIDIA has been dropping a trail of breadcrumbs in its GeForce twitter feed over the past week surrounding "Project Beyond," which from the get go was interpreted as its debut of the GeForce RTX 40-series, based on the "Ada" graphics architecture (named after Ada Lovelace, credited with being the mother of computer programming). In its latest tweet, the company posted a picture of the famous "Diagram for the computation by the Engine," believed to be a computer program she wrote for the Charles Babbage number engine (an analog computer from the early 19th century).
The teaser video shows a copy of Lovelace's chart lying on a modern PC desk. One of the two monitors has a sticky note with a phone number scribbled on it—(208)-629-7538. Punters on social media decoded this not to be a random phone number, but a well-crafted hint about the vital specs of the top GeForce RTX 4090. "208" could denote 2.08 times the performance (or at least FP32 compute throughput) of the RTX 3090 "Ampere." 629 could be the die-size in mm², and 7538 could mean 75.38 billion transistors (the rumored transistor count of the 5 nm "AD102" silicon on which the RTX 4090 is based).
Sources:
NVIDIA GeForce (Twitter), VideoCardz
The teaser video shows a copy of Lovelace's chart lying on a modern PC desk. One of the two monitors has a sticky note with a phone number scribbled on it—(208)-629-7538. Punters on social media decoded this not to be a random phone number, but a well-crafted hint about the vital specs of the top GeForce RTX 4090. "208" could denote 2.08 times the performance (or at least FP32 compute throughput) of the RTX 3090 "Ampere." 629 could be the die-size in mm², and 7538 could mean 75.38 billion transistors (the rumored transistor count of the 5 nm "AD102" silicon on which the RTX 4090 is based).
44 Comments on NVIDIA Confirms GeForce "Ada" Launch tied to "Project Beyond," Drops a Sneaky Phone Number
or it could mean 2.08 times the price of a 3090 :laugh:. Oh sneaky nvidia!
For me it's 2.08TB/sec effective bandwidth with 96MB cache+GDDR6X or it's just FP16 or tensor FP32 Tflops (You heard it here first lol)
good news for gamers or bad news?
It cannot be because nVidia might of sayd to the "bust open" Cernobyl NPP reactor no.4 : "hold my beer!" , can it?
I agree though these TDP are getting out of control.
But 6 ray traversals per RT core is too excessive I think.
Just a bit less than three days left. now is the 16th, its at the 20th.
629 = power consumption in watts
7538 = no. of cards produced for worldwide sales until end of 2022