NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards featuring the Ada Lovelace GPU architecture are expected to deliver the same generational performance jump that we saw moving from the 9-series Maxwell GPUs to 10-series Pascal GPUs. The rumor comes from Ulysses, who has been talking about NVIDIA's next-gen parts for a while now.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 GPUs With Ada Lovelace Architecture Expected To Deliver Same Generational Jump As We Saw With Maxwell To Pascal

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10 series graphics cards based on the Pascal GPU architecture were a huge performance jump compared to its Maxwell-based GeForce 9 series precessors. The 16nm chips delivered a major improvement to performance, efficiency, and overall value, also marking one of the biggest leaps in 'Ti' graphics performance. The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is still regarded as the best 'Ti' graphics card ever made, a performance jump that NVIDIA has been unable to match with its Turing and Ampere flagships.

rtx30series—rtx40series like Maxwell—Pascal

— Ulysses (@TtLexington) August 1, 2021

Now the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series is expected to deliver the same generational performance jump over the GeForce RTX 30 series. Based on the Ada Lovelace GPU architecture, the GeForce 40 series graphics cards are expected to utilize TSMC's 5nm process node and while they will be very power-hungry, their efficiency numbers will go up tremendously thanks to the huge performance jump.

There are also some other details mentioned regarding clock speeds and launch timeframe. We know that the GeForce RTX 40 series is a long way from now and the rumor is that we won't expect these cards to launch until late Q4 2022. This is also due to the fact that NVIDIA will reportedly be offering an intermediate SUPER refresh of its GeForce RTX 30 series lineup in 2022. So if that lineup was to come before RTX 40 series, then we can expect the launch to slip further in Q1 2023. This means that AMD might just have its RDNA 3 lineup out by the time NVIDIA launches its new GPU family.

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2022 12or2023Q1 pic.twitter.com/CsTVP5YzFb

— Ulysses (@TtLexington) August 1, 2021

In terms of clock speeds, the Ada Lovelace-powered NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs are said to offer clock speeds between 2.2 to 2.5 GHz (boost). This is a nice improvement to 1.7-1.9 GHz clocks that the Ampere architecture churns out currently on average. The Pascal architecture also clocked impressively and was the first GPU architecture to breach the 2.0 GHz clock speed limit however, it is AMD who has taken the clock speed throne with its RDNA 2 GPU architecture which can hit clocks beyond 2.5 GHz with ease.

Based on these numbers, if the RTX 4090 or whatever the AD102 GPU is featured inside features 18,432 CUDA cores, then we are getting up to 80 TFLOPs of FP32 compute performance at 2.2 GHz which is insane and over 2x the single-precision floating-point jump over RTX 3090. These numbers do align with the rumors that we can expect up to a 2.5x performance jump with the Ada Lovelace-GPUs-based NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 graphics cards.

NVIDIA CUDA GPU (RUMORED) Preliminary: