The biggest graphics card announcement of the year is here. Yesterday, at its GTC 2022 conference, Nvidia finally announced their new and much-awaited RTX 4000 series GPUs in the form of the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080. These GPUs are the first to be based on Nvidia’s newest “Ada Lovelace” architecture and are touted to be the fastest graphics cards ever produced. That said, let’s look at all the details for Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 right here.

Nvidia in their announcement showed only two of the Ada Lovelace cards, but they did give us a lot of important hardware specifications for the same. The top-end RTX 4090, for one, comes with an earth-shattering 16,384 CUDA cores. This is almost 60% more cores than the RTX 3090, which was already considered a gaming beast. Other important upgrades include a higher number of Tensor and RT cores at 1321 and 113, respectively.

The more interesting announcement of the two cards, though, was the GeForce RTX 4080, which will come in two different models – one with 12GB of GDDR6X video memory and another with 16 GB of video memory.

In addition, Nvidia also announced a range of features and technologies that the new GPUs will enjoy like DLSS 3, new AV1 encoders, and also a new performance-enhancing feature called Shader Execution Reordering.

RTX 4000 Series: Release Date and Pricing

In terms of release date, the first card that will be available to purchase will be the RTX 4090, which will hit retail and online stores on the 12th of October. The RTX 4090 will be followed by the release of the RTX 4080 sometime in November. Nvidia has not given us an exact date for these cards, but if we were to speculate will most likely be late November.

The huge amount of interest that the RTX 4000 series GPU announcement has garnered, in a way has laid waste to the growing concerns that industry experts had about the GPU market. The GPU industry might be saturated in terms of supply chain issues and a victim to the tumbling Crypto-currency market, but when it comes to new releases and hype it can never be bogged down.