Tuesday, September 20th 2022
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 Huang
15:03 UTC: This is seriously good stuff (RacerX). It runs on a single GPU, in real-time, uses RTX Neural Rendering
15:05 UTC: Ada Lovelace is a huge GPU
15:06 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-HPG
15:08 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 support
15:13 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 GDN
15:37 UTC: THOR SuperChip for automotive applications.
15:41 UTC: NVIDIA next-generation Drive
15:02 UTC: Future games will be simulations, not pre-baked- Jensen Huang
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"
15:26 UTC: Racer X demo was built by a few dozen artists in just 3 months.
333 Comments on NVIDIA Project Beyond GTC Keynote Address: Expect the Expected (RTX 4090)
iPhones aren’t cheap for sure, but apple isn’t increasing the price 2x and dropping the performance tier of its products like NVIDIA is every generation.
I don’t like defending apple, but my 12 pro max works perfectly fine with iOS 16. Not sure why someone would need the newest model outside of having money to burn or wanting the new camera that comes with each iteration.
November 3rd will be interesting - fingers crossed for a hard launch or as close to it as the GPU industry can get.
I really can't remember to have closed the video feed so early when in the middle of a new gen announcement (except if I was tired from work)
4090 is slightly higher (6-7%) so slightly disappointing but 4080 16GB & 12GB pricing is atrocious.
The technology is good, I posted a few days earlier about the possibility Ada to have frame interpolation, that's huge.
But the general performance claims are misleading.
Even if 4090 is 2X on average faster than 3090Ti in raster like Jensen said, 4080 16GB shouldn't be more than 1.55X faster than 3080Ti in raster (and 4080 12GB shouldn't be more than 1.27X faster than 3080Ti) and I bet the real numbers will be around 10% slower than that regarding classic raster performance.
In future games that support DLSS 3.0, Navi 31 won't hold a candle, but we live in the present and just 30 upcoming games isn't that much anyway.
if there is something faster than is not just an actual scam (like a 3090 Ti that costs 1000€ more for like 10% more performance) i will buy it.
but what they try to sell here as a 4080 12GB is just a 4070. there is a ~25% difference between both cards and they carry the same name.
Under the graphs it tells you that the 40 series is using DLSS performance mode. It doesn't make any mention if the 3080Ti or 3090Ti are using DLSS, at least to my understanding.
Be mindful of the marketing BS these companies do to spin things in a positive light. I'll hold my final judgment for reviews.
No, this latest crap-on-the-customers move by Huang isn't going to hurt Nvidia very much. The legions of Nvidia fans will do what they always have done. Dismiss what Huang is doing entirely or trivialize it.
Judt look at the size of the Aorus, it's just ridiculous!
Microsoft Flight Simulator uses almost 15 GB of VRAM in urban environements, such as NYC or London with 3D buildings, on my 6800XT, when in-game features are maxed out. Why on Earth you would give people only 12 GB of VRAM on a high-tier new product? The same argument was for 10 GB of VRAM on initial 3080.
The question is if AMD cares about its customers or not? I mean we don't want an RX 7700 XT for $879 lol
$1200 for 4080 - say what you want, regardless of previous Gen pricing... STILL TOO EXPENSIVE! I was interested and but I refuse to pay anything above $800 for a graphics card. Even $800 is too much IMO.
"15:19 UTC: New pricing for RTX 30-series" - I didn't see a screenshot so im assuming the trimmed pricing hasnt been confirmed yet?
If the 4080 is going for $1200, where does that leave 4070? .... $800-$900? Perhaps a new high for the **60 at $400-$500?. If these cards are x2/x3 the performance of previous Gen, i might be interested. Otherwise i'm not gonna spend my hard earned cash unwisely and grease/feed this never-ending profit-famished ravenous beast
Portal RTX looks cool, though.