OPINION : This workweek Nvidia let on the first two entries in its newRTX 4000 - series .

And , while we ’re yet to benchmark the newRTX 4090andRTX 4080 , from what we ’ve project they ’re set to be very impressive upgrades on the already impressive 30 - serial publication GPUs , which I look back when they launched two twelvemonth ago .

Highlights include worldwide spec upgrade to both : moreCUDA Cores , more GDDR6X memory , the entry of Nvidia’s3rd Generation RT Cores and 4th Generation Tensor Cores plus slightly good TDPs ( big businessman consumption ) . The latter is particularly important as the 30 - serial publication cards were monster truck that want a very powerfulPSUto rill when I benchmarked them .

To hoi polloi that do n’t obsess over GPU specs , but just want to dally games faster and at higher frame rate , according to Nvidia , this means the RTX 4090 is between 2x and 4x faster thanRTX 3090 Tiand the RTX 4080 is between 2x and 4x faster than theRTX 3080 Tidepending on the title you ’re lead .

Considering the fact I could already get game to persist at playable , post 30fps speeds on the baseRTX 3080with their graphic maxed and ray tracing on in 4 K , if any of that rings true when we test the new cards , then they ’ll be the fastest we ’ve ever seen .

And while there ’s a lot to get excited about there , there ’s one big fly front in the ointment : their price . The newfangled Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics will cost $ 1599/£1679 starting price . That ’s a $ 100 increase on what the 3090 cost at launch . The Nvidia RTX 4080 16 GB and 12 GB have start up price of $ 1199/£1269 and $ 899/£949 , severally

Even if you ’re cash rich , those are n’t bum investment . The cost of living crisis also intend many will want to question if now ’s the right time to pass over a M on a bill to play game , especially one that deplete so much electricity .

This is why for me , though they ’re exciting , it ’s another carte du jour that Nvidia ’s yet to plunge that ’ll be more important in the long full term . Specifically , my money is on the RTX 4060 to be the most successful and widely usedLovelaceGPU when it in the end arrive .

To caveat , this is n’t an official circuit board yet , I ’m basing it on my experience testing previous Nvidia 60 card , like theRTX 3060 Ti , which I give way 4/5 when I review it and to this Clarence Shepard Day Jr. inclination as thebest GPUfor 1080p re tracing .

60 lineup tend to be the one that arrive at the sweet spot for price and public presentation , offering dependable enough speeds for 1080p gaming with ray tracing and 1440p without it .

This , in my thinker , is a key understanding that class - on - year Steam lists 60 cards as the most used on its platform . Jump over to the latestAugust 2022 Steam surveyand you ’ll see it ’s not 80 or 90 cards that top the list . The top 10 most used cards in August are mostly 60 and 50 serial :

Despite being shake up at a technical level for the premium card game , and very neat to see how they perform when we benchmark them in our test rig , I ca n’t help but remember the biggest Lovelace release from Nvidia is yet to come .