Nvidia Officially Announces the RTX 4090 and 4080 Desktop GPUs

A new flagship GPU from NVIDIA has been announced part of its RTX 4000 series of graphics cards, two years after the RTX 3000 series was released.

The RTX 4090 will cost $1599 and will is scheduled for release on October 12th worldwide. They are using Nvidia's new Ada Lovelace architecture, which uses the third-generation DLSS, the first GPU is the GeForce RTX 4090, which includes 24GB of G6X memory and is claimed to be two to four times faster than the RTX 3090 Ti which is a pretty bold statement, Nvidia's previous flagship GPU.

The new RTX 4080 is claimed to be two to four times faster than the RTX 3080 Ti. It includes two memory configurations: 12GB and 16GB. You will have to wait a little longer for the RTX 4080 GPUs as currently no release date was announced but Nvidia did say the cards will release sometime in November. The RTX 4080 with 12GB of G6X memory will retail for $899, while the 16GB variant will cost $1,199.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang went into extensive detail about the RTX 40's new graphical architecture during the NVIDIA presentation. Some very cool features coming from the Ada architecture which includes a third-generation RTX, which boasts new features, including real-time path tracing as well as the third generation of Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS). DLSS 3 is reportedly capable of generating additional frames and boosting game performance by up to two times.