Tuesday, September 20th 2022
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NVIDIA Project Beyond GTC Keynote Address: Expect the Expected (RTX 4090)
NVIDIA just kicked off the GTC Autumn 2022 Keynote address that culminates in Project Beyond, the company's launch vehicle for its next-generation GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards based on the "Ada" architecture. These are expected to nearly double the performance over the present generation, ushering in a new era of photo-real graphics as we inch closer to the metaverse. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is expected to take center-stage to launch these cards.15:00 UTC: The show is on the road.15:00 UTC: AI remains the center focus, including how it plays with gaming.
15:01 UTC: Racer X is a real-time interactive tech demo. Coming soon.
15:02 UTC: Future games will be simulations, not pre-baked- Jensen Huang15:03 UTC: This is seriously good stuff (RacerX). It runs on a single GPU, in real-time, uses RTX Neural Rendering15:05 UTC: Ada Lovelace is a huge GPU15:06 UTC: 76 billion transistors, over 18,000 shaders. 76 billion transistors, Micron GDDR6X memory. Shader execution reordering is major innovation, as big as out-of-order execution for CPUs, gains up to 25% in-game performance. Ada built on TSMC 4 nm, using 4N, a custom process designed in together with NVIDIA.
There's a new streaming multiprocessor design, with a total of 90 TFLOPS. Power efficiency is doubled over Ampere.
Ray Tracing is on the third generation now, with 200 RT TFLOPS and twice the triangle intersection speed.
Deep Learning AI uses 4th gen Tensor Cores, 1400 TFLOPS, "Optical Flow Accelerator"15:07 UTC: Shader Execution Reordering similar to the one we saw with Intel Xe-HPG15:08 UTC: Several new hardware-accelerated ray tracing innovations with 3rd gen RTX.15:09 UTC: DLSS 3 is announced. It brings with it several new innovations, including temporal components, and Reflex latency optimizations. Generates new frames without involving the graphics pipeline.15:11 UTC: Cyberpunk 2077 to get DLSS 3 and SER. 16 times increase in effective performance using DLSS 3 vs. DLSS 1. MS Flight Simulator to get DLSS 3 support15:13 UTC: Portal RTX, a remaster just like Quake II RTX, available from November, created with Omniverse RTX Remix.15:14 UTC: Ada offers a giant leap in total performance. Everything has been increased 40 -> 90 TFLOPS shader, 78 -> 200 TFLOPS RTX, 126 -> 300 TFLOPS OFA, 320 -> 1400 TFLOPS Tensor.15:17 UTC: Power efficiency is more than doubled, but power goes up to 450 W now.15:18 UTC: GeForce RTX 4090 will be available on October 12, priced at $1600. It comes with 24 GB GDDR6X and is 2-4x faster than RTX 3090 Ti.15:18 UTC: RTX 4080 is available in two versions, 16 GB and 12 GB. The 16 GB version starts at $1200, the 12 GB at $900. 2-4x faster than RTX 3080 Ti.15:19 UTC: New pricing for RTX 30-series, "for mainstream gamers", RTX 40-series "for enthusiasts".15:19 UTC: "Ada is a quantum leap for gamers"—improved ray tracing, shader execution reordering, DLSS 3.15:20 UTC: Updates to Omniverse
15:26 UTC: Racer X demo was built by a few dozen artists in just 3 months.15:31 UTC: Digital twins would play a vital sole in product development and lifecycle maintenence.15:31 UTC: Over 150 connectors to Omniverse.15:33 UTC: GDN (graphics delivery network) is the new CDN. Graphics rendering over the Internet will be as big in the future as streaming video is today.15:37 UTC: Omniverse Cloud, a planetary-scale GDN15:37 UTC: THOR SuperChip for automotive applications.15:41 UTC: NVIDIA next-generation Drive
15:01 UTC: Racer X is a real-time interactive tech demo. Coming soon.
15:02 UTC: Future games will be simulations, not pre-baked- Jensen Huang15:03 UTC: This is seriously good stuff (RacerX). It runs on a single GPU, in real-time, uses RTX Neural Rendering15:05 UTC: Ada Lovelace is a huge GPU15:06 UTC: 76 billion transistors, over 18,000 shaders. 76 billion transistors, Micron GDDR6X memory. Shader execution reordering is major innovation, as big as out-of-order execution for CPUs, gains up to 25% in-game performance. Ada built on TSMC 4 nm, using 4N, a custom process designed in together with NVIDIA.
There's a new streaming multiprocessor design, with a total of 90 TFLOPS. Power efficiency is doubled over Ampere.
Ray Tracing is on the third generation now, with 200 RT TFLOPS and twice the triangle intersection speed.
Deep Learning AI uses 4th gen Tensor Cores, 1400 TFLOPS, "Optical Flow Accelerator"15:07 UTC: Shader Execution Reordering similar to the one we saw with Intel Xe-HPG15:08 UTC: Several new hardware-accelerated ray tracing innovations with 3rd gen RTX.15:09 UTC: DLSS 3 is announced. It brings with it several new innovations, including temporal components, and Reflex latency optimizations. Generates new frames without involving the graphics pipeline.15:11 UTC: Cyberpunk 2077 to get DLSS 3 and SER. 16 times increase in effective performance using DLSS 3 vs. DLSS 1. MS Flight Simulator to get DLSS 3 support15:13 UTC: Portal RTX, a remaster just like Quake II RTX, available from November, created with Omniverse RTX Remix.15:14 UTC: Ada offers a giant leap in total performance. Everything has been increased 40 -> 90 TFLOPS shader, 78 -> 200 TFLOPS RTX, 126 -> 300 TFLOPS OFA, 320 -> 1400 TFLOPS Tensor.15:17 UTC: Power efficiency is more than doubled, but power goes up to 450 W now.15:18 UTC: GeForce RTX 4090 will be available on October 12, priced at $1600. It comes with 24 GB GDDR6X and is 2-4x faster than RTX 3090 Ti.15:18 UTC: RTX 4080 is available in two versions, 16 GB and 12 GB. The 16 GB version starts at $1200, the 12 GB at $900. 2-4x faster than RTX 3080 Ti.15:19 UTC: New pricing for RTX 30-series, "for mainstream gamers", RTX 40-series "for enthusiasts".15:19 UTC: "Ada is a quantum leap for gamers"—improved ray tracing, shader execution reordering, DLSS 3.15:20 UTC: Updates to Omniverse
15:26 UTC: Racer X demo was built by a few dozen artists in just 3 months.15:31 UTC: Digital twins would play a vital sole in product development and lifecycle maintenence.15:31 UTC: Over 150 connectors to Omniverse.15:33 UTC: GDN (graphics delivery network) is the new CDN. Graphics rendering over the Internet will be as big in the future as streaming video is today.15:37 UTC: Omniverse Cloud, a planetary-scale GDN15:37 UTC: THOR SuperChip for automotive applications.15:41 UTC: NVIDIA next-generation Drive
333 Comments on NVIDIA Project Beyond GTC Keynote Address: Expect the Expected (RTX 4090)
/rant
I for the life of me don't understand all these people claiming normal prices, jsut because it's faster! IT'S FUCKING SUPPOSED TO BE FASTER, It's a new gen for god sake. How on earth is it justifiable that a gepu that launched at $700 is now launching at freaking $1100?!?!?!?
Fucking next gen normal price is $2000 because is 2x faster than 4080????!?!?!?
rant/
Don't buy their stuff unless you NEED a replacement, time to teach them a lesson they won't soon forget.
Anyway, i've made my mind up.. i'm not spending a dime over £800 for my next upgrade which is already an extravagant ask. I'll wait for RDNA3 to drop too. Whatever comes available at this price range, if it delivers a sizeable performance uplift over my current graphics card (2080-TI) i'm pulling the trigger. What i won't be doing is picking up a high refresh rate 4K display over the current 1440p which by now (5 years on) I thought it would be economically feasible. NVIDIA, thanks!
I agree though pricing seems to suck on both the 4080s my guess is if ampere was all sold out they'd price them at 799 and 999 but I'm probably wrong.
949 and 1269 pounds for the FE??!!
I was always reading about skipping the 3000, if you have a 2080Ti, but now seems to be the only reasonable, pricewise, alternative.
Also if someone is willing to pay the price for a 4080, he should go all in for the 4090. I see the 4080 16GB as terrible value.
Again hard to get a guage of what Nvidia is actually paying. They are also Apparently not offering discounts on large orders.
That's about all I can find... Again not defending Nvidia the two 4080s currently look bad.... Flagships are always overpriced but adjusted for inflation the 4090 is cheaper than the 3090 non ti at launch at least in the US.
At the same time I won't be comparing these cards to launch prices I'll be doing it vs the current 3090ti at 1100 usd and my 3080ti at it's current 800 ish usd price to guage if the 4090/4080 16GB is worth buying.
Considering this, my next upgrade will either be a
From Anandtech:
This is obviously rather vague - especially the N4 vs N5 comparison - but we can assume that regular N4 has less of a power drop than -22%, and less of a performance increase than +11%. Nvidia can definitely use that power drop, given how Ampere lagged behind RDNA2 and the upcoming RNDA3 getting a boost from moving to 5nm. Still, this is definitely going to be interesting going forwards.
3060 must drop to 199 ASAP, 3070 299, 3080 499. and launch $599 4070 with 12GB, 7168 shaders together with 4080 12G. Nvidia is driving me nuts
Nvidia in 2022: "You need to pay more to get more. That's just the way it is."
WTF?
About the DLSS 3. Do I understand it correctly that only the 4000 series cards can use the DLSS 3.0 or will the Turing and Ampere be able too?