Nvidia ADA Lovelace (RTX 4090) Likely Being Announced September 20th (GeForce Beyond Event)

[Deadpool2onBlu-Ray]

Summary

Nvidia ADA Lovelace GPU's, in some capacity, are getting announced on September 20th during the Geforce Beyond Keynote.

 

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The Nvidia hype train has left the building, advertising a "special event" at 8am PT on Tuesday, September 20. Kicking off the green team’s GPU Technology Conference 2022 (GTC), a GeForce Beyond(opens in new tab) special broadcast at the beginning of the day will be followed by a keynote by Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang.

We have been expecting an Nvidia GeForce RTX 40-series launch in the coming weeks, and we now have a firm date for the first official Ada Lovelace architecture graphics card reveal(s). This comes after Jensen already made a statement at the end of Nvidia's earning report saying he'd have more to say about the next-generation architecture "next month."

 

My thoughts

Let's see how crazy this thing is priced. Also, it is likely the 4080 is being delayed on purpose so they can sell more leftover 30 series stock.

 

Sources

 https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-40-series-debut-expected-at-sept-20-geforce-beyond-event

[BiG StroOnZ]

Beat me to it, was just working on a thread - good thing I double checked ~ 

 

NVIDIA announces “GeForce Beyond: Special Broadcast at GTC” event for September 20, GeForce RTX 40 series possibly incoming:

 

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NVIDIA in a cryptic tweet earlier this morning (evening September 7 in the US); teased something it calls "Project Beyond," with no further description. It comes with an animation showing a bunch of green rays projecting outward. Buried in the images from the tweet above (and hidden from view by Twitter's image display), there are tiny sequences of trigrams. Encoded in them is the text "20.09.22 BEYOND GEFORCE". That seems to indicate pretty clearly that we're talking about some next-generation GeForce hardware being announced (or at least discussed) on September 20th at GTC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On September 20 NVIDIA will have a special event dedicated to GeForce series. This event will be part of the Graphics Technology Conference (GTC). The time and date matches NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang keynote, which either means the keynote will include an update on GeForce series or there will be a separate segment dedicated to GeForce.

 

Jensen Huang said during his company's last earnings call that Mean Green would be unveiling "new advances in RTX" at GTC and he'd have more to say about the next-generation architecture "next month."

 

Press emails about the "special broadcast" provided slightly more information. The official blurb says that we will see the GeForce Beyond segment right at the start of the 8am event, followed up by Jensen Huang's keynote. He will share details about Nvidia's "latest breakthroughs in gaming, creating, and graphics technology."

 

Given that it was tweeted from the NVIDIA GeForce account, rather than the official NVIDIA (corporate) handle, we assume Project Beyond is a marketing effort coming up to the debut of the next-generation GeForce RTX 40-series "Ada" graphics cards.

 

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-to-announce-september-20-geforce-beyond-special-broadcast-at-gtc-geforce-rtx-40-series-incoming

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/88371/nvidia-announces-geforce-beyond-event-for-september-20-hey-there-ada/index.html

https://www.techpowerup.com/298675/nvidia-possibly-flags-off-the-rtx-40-series-hype-train-with-project-beyond

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-40-series-debut-expected-at-sept-20-geforce-beyond-event

https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-tweets-projectbeyond-and-its-surely-a-teaser-for-the-rtx-40-series/

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-posts-teaser-on-twitter-rtx-40-teasing.html

https://hothardware.com/news/nvidia-teases-rtx-40-gpu-launch-at-gtc

[Action_Johnson]

Will be skipping this one for sure. 

[Haaselh0ff]

Hyped for new GPUs!! Hoping for the 4090 to remain around the same pricing as 3090 and to not have to fight to get one this time around lol.

[vetali]

Will there be BTU benchmarks this time?

[AnonymousGuy]

Boy oh boy september is an expensive month.  Apple Watch Ultra, Airpods Pro 2, iPhone 14 Pro Max, 4090.  

 

If I'm guessing 4090 pricing: $1500.  Less than 3090 so they can claim it as a "win", but not so low that it cannibalizes the 3000 series burn down on inventory.

[BiG StroOnZ]

NVIDIA confirms upcoming Ada architecture:
 

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The Twitter teaser posted a “Diagram for the computation by the Engine of the Numbers of Bernoulli“. This chart was created by Ada Lovelace in 1843. It was created for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine and is considered to be the first “non-trivial” computer program. Therefore, NVIDIA has now finally confirmed it will announce the RTX series based on Ada architecture.

 

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-confirms-upcoming-ada-architecture

[Shreyas1]

Tbh I don't think games have caught up enough to justify the upgrade. I mean I can play most games at 1440p, even 4K with my 3070

[Dracarris]

1 hour ago, Shreyas1 said:

Tbh I don't think games have caught up enough to justify the upgrade. I mean I can play most games at 1440p, even 4K with my 3070

Hm in many games and 4K my 3080 comes to its limits with 30-60fps and some dips below 30.

[porina]

1 hour ago, Shreyas1 said:

Tbh I don't think games have caught up enough to justify the upgrade. I mean I can play most games at 1440p, even 4K with my 3070

As a user of a 3070 on 4k TV, I'd say it is kinda entry level for 4k. Assuming a 60fps target, you're not going ultra except maybe on much older games. Still, the shortage of recent years has taught me to be bothered to adjust settings if required.

 

Also, while gaming might be a major use case for many around here, it is for sure not the only use case. Encoders get updates, and compute power efficiency improves with every generation since I started paying attention at Maxwell era.

 

1 minute ago, Dracarris said:

Hm in many games and 4K my 3080 comes to its limits with 30-60fps and some dips below 30.

What games, what settings?

 

More in general, I think 1440p and below players are well covered already. It is 4k where more power still makes a worthwhile difference, if your pockets are deep enough to go with it.

[Dracarris]

29 minutes ago, porina said:

What games, what settings?

RDR2 at (pretty) high settings

The Ascent with Ray Tracing, not playable unless at least DLSS quality also enabled

Farthest Frontier Ultra, although here some optimizations will be done by the studio

Anno 1800, high to ultra when zooming out and having decently complex cities

[porina]

9 minutes ago, Dracarris said:

RDR2 at (pretty) high settings

The Ascent with Ray Tracing, not playable unless at least DLSS quality also enabled

Farthest Frontier Ultra, although here some optimizations will be done by the studio

Anno 1800, high to ultra when zooming out and having decently complex cities

I had forgotten about the RT penalty, which remains an area where any performance gain would be welcome. There still isn't a PC game I spend a lot of time in supporting it.

 

Of the games in the list, Anno 1800 is the only one I have any experience of. I never benched it in detail though. Is it GPU or CPU limiting?

[Dracarris]

48 minutes ago, porina said:

Of the games in the list, Anno 1800 is the only one I have any experience of. I never benched it in detail though. Is it GPU or CPU limiting?

Pretty sure GPU as with lower settings it runs smoothly. But I'd have to check, after all my 6700K might be limiting here, although I doubt it.