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Nvidia’s RTX 4090 hype is overreaching itself

by on05 July 2022


Still no benchmarks

Nvidia’s RTX 4090 is yet to release a benchmark but the hype is pouring out thick and fast -- mostly thick.

The latest update comes from serial Nvidia leaker Kopite7kimi who claims that the expected clocks of the RTX 4090. A 2235MHz base and a 2520MHz boost clock would put it far ahead of the clocks of the RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition at 1670.

Owners of RTX 30 series cards would know that their rated boost clocks are often exceeded, and that appears to be the case with the RTX 4090. Kopite7kimi claims that the RTX 4090 can boost to at least 2750MHz. Third party cards might even be able to hit the magical 3GHz level with the wind behind it and if it is going downhill.

The 450W TDP is not bad and the extra cores on the 4090 will sink the 3090 and 3090 Ti without taking any architectural improvements into consideration.

Rumored RTX 40 series specs

 

RTX 4090

RTX 4080

RTX 4070

GPU

AD102-300-A1

AD103-300-A1

AD104-275-Kx-A1

CUDA Cores

16384

10240

7168

Base Clock

2235

N/A

N/A

Boost Clock

2520

N/A

N/A

Memory Bus

384-bit

256-bit

160-bit

Memory Type

24GB GDDR6X

16GB GDDR6X

10GB GDDR6

Memory Speed

21Gbps

21Gbps

18Gbps

TDP

450W

420W

300W


The RTX 4070 is an xx70 class card with a 160-bit bus which is a little weird on a modern card. 18Gbps memory should help but 160-bit is too mid-range. With 7168 cores it will beat an RTX 3080, but its 10GB of memory is probably not enough for 4K gaming and large texture packs.

Rumors around the release timeframe are quite variable. We can expect to see the RTX 4090 first with the RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 expected to follow before the end of the year.

 

Last modified on 05 July 2022
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