RTX 4090 Release Date – If you’ve followed the GPU market over the last few years, you know it’s been a wild ride. However, now that we’re nearing the conclusion of a large price increase for GPUs, Nvidia is preparing to unveil its next big flagship GPU, the RTX 4090.
Details and leaks concerning the impending 40-series have been scattered, with some wild rumors about power consumption and pricing. In any case, it’s expected to rank among the most powerful GPUs available. We don’t know what will be true, but here’s what we’ve heard thus far.
RTX 4090 Release Date
We won’t know any definitive details or pricing until Nvidia announces the RTX 4090. But we know that Nvidia releases new graphics cards every two years in the fall, so the most likely release date is between mid-September and the end of October.
The previous time was at the height of a global health and supply crisis. While things are crazy this year, chip supply chains are far better than they were in 2020. This indicates that the RTX 4090 could reach consumers considerably faster than the RTX 3090.
Nvidia released a testing timetable in late May to add further support to an upcoming fall release, which included August and September for mass production of the unit.
Of course, this could be incorrect. After all, a rumor from May said that the RTX 4090 will be available in mid-July. This obviously did not occur and contradicts Nvidia’s usual fall release schedule.
On the other side, it is feasible that Nvidia will postpone the event until early 2023. The answer is simple: they have an excess of RTX 3000-series chips. During the epidemic, logistics delays caused flakes to pile up in warehouses, and Nvidia may aim to offload some more of these 2020 GPUs before releasing a new generation.
According to current rumors, Nvidia will only release the RTX 4090 and will hold off on the mid-range 4000-series cards as they sell surplus stock. This would assist in lowering the price of older but still functional CPUs and bring them more in line with AMD chips.
Nvidia RTX 4090 Price
The current RTX 3090, undoubtedly the king of graphics cards at the moment, has gone from a high of $1,999 to roughly $1,499. The RTX 4090 will likely finish north of that figure, though we don’t see it hitting the $2,000 area. Read; The FTC is suing NVIDIA over acquisition of Arm
Pricing is critical, especially with AMD hot on Nvidia’s tail. The AMD Radeon RX 7000 family also promises to beasts at a lesser price. The current-generation AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT costs $900, which is $500 less than the current Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti. Nvidia’s recent financial troubles in the gaming industry may drive the company to become more aggressive with pricing, but we’ll have to wait and see.
Architecture rumors
According to reports, the Nvidia RTX 4090 is expected to have 16,384 CUDA cores, 144 ray tracing cores and 576 tensor cores. This might offer it a blistering 40% performance boost over the RTX 3090.
It will also include 24GB of VRAM, just like the 3090. However, according to Twitter leaker Kopite7kimi, the RTX 4090 will have a base clock speed of 2235 MHz and can boost up to 2520 MHz, which is more than double the RTX 3090.
| RTX 4090 | RTX 3090 | |
| CUDA Cores | 16,384 | 10,496 |
| Ray tracing cores | 144 | 82 |
| Tensor cores | 576 | 328 |
| VRAM GDDR6X | 24GB | 24GB |
| Base clock speed | 2235 MHz | 1394 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 2520 MHz | 1695 MHz |
| Bus width | 384 width | 384 width |
Power draw
According to speculations, the RTX 4090 will be a power-hungry beast with an insatiable appetite for electricity. To put it another way, it will take up to 600 watts of power when pushed to its limit. With some already downclocking their GPUs to reduce heat and noise, this level of electricity could pose an issue.
Although it will have a regular 12-pin PCIe Gen 5 power connector, it will likely require some form of adaptor to draw that much power. It may be built in or must be purchased separately. Nvidia typically does not nickel and dime customers, so the latter seems unlikely. Read Also; Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti to launch with 450W TDP
Nonetheless, 600 watts is a lot of power. The previous-generation RTX 3090 consumes up to 385 watts, which is quite a lot. The RTX 4090 can move enough energy to heat your house, indicating that it’s time to change your power supply.
According to Igor’s Lab, the RTX 4090 will require 450 watts merely to power the GPU. The remaining will be required by the VRAM, fans, inductors, caps, and MOSFET.
The RTX 4090 will get hot due to this tremendous demand for power. We’re talking about the heat on the “surface of the sun” – enough to melt the unit under prolonged load. To keep temperatures under control, a huge cooling machine would be required.
We reported on something similar in June. The RTX 4090 features a three-slot BFGPU cooler, similar to the RTX 3090 Ti, but with additional fins and a heat sink area. It will almost certainly retain the same dual flow-through as the RTX 3090 LED lights to illuminate the logo.
Performance
Power does not always equate to performance, but the RTX 4090 must find a way to convert that power into pure graphical fulfillment. There’s no denying that high-end Nvidia GPUs are among the best in the world, even if they’re expensive and difficult to obtain. However, the RTX 4090 may be on a completely different level. Read More; Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Release Date, Price, And Specs
To begin, according to kopite7kimi, the card will be able to achieve a score of 19,000 on a Time Spy Extreme benchmark test. This would make it the fastest GPU ever built, with a score nearly double that of the RTX 3090’s 10,000. According to rumors, the RTX 4090 can achieve 4K 160 fps with both ray tracing and DLSS enabled. If these rumors are true, gamers will adore this card.
The raw performance, however, is even more shocking. The RTX 4090 is expected to be the first GPU to surpass 100 teraflops. These are truly incredible numbers, but let’s be honest: this is strictly an enthusiast card. Such performance exists on the outskirts of consumer requirements.
