Next-gen flagship GPU might be even beefier than expected, and we’ve heard a bit more on its release date, too.
Nvidia’s RTX 4090 might just be even faster than we anticipated, at least if a new rumor turns out to be true – and we’ve also heard more on why Nvidia’s launch plans might have recently changed (again, going by the GPU grapevine, so remain cautious around all this info). The fresh nugget around the potential performance of Nvidia’s Lovelace flagship graphics card comes from well-known hardware leaker ‚kopite7kimi‘, who believes that the final loadout of the RTX 4090 could be 16,384 CUDA Cores instead of 16,128 as was previously believed. That’d represent an extra 2 streaming multiprocessors for a total of 128. That’s a relatively small bump in the core count, but not an insignificant one, giving the RTX 4090 just a bit more raw grunt in theory – remembering that this graphics card is already expected to be a huge leap in performance compared to its predecessor the RTX 3090. Another interesting point to note on Nvidia’s incoming next-gen GPUs comes via YouTube leaker RedGamingTech (opens in new tab), who spotted the above tweet, and further chimed in regarding the purported release schedule for the RTX 4090 (and other Lovelace cards). Of course, we’ve heard a lot of rumors around the launch dates for the RTX 4090, and RedGamingTech says that their sources are now agreeing that the latest speculation is correct in terms of a September launch for the Lovelace flagship, followed by October and November for the RTX 4080 and 4070 respectively.
