It seems like a lifetime since Nvidia’s second-gen RTX sequence of graphics playing cards rolled out of the fab. Possibly it’s as a result of that was again in September of 2020, and for lots of various causes, these two intervening years may as effectively have been a lifetime. However when you’ve been patiently ready for a brand new chip design, you received’t want to attend for much longer: Nvidia has despatched out invites to a “GeForce Past Particular Broadcast,” the place we anticipate to see the RTX 4000 sequence debuted.
The occasion will probably be held on Tuesday, September 2022 at Nvidia’s self-branded GPU Know-how Convention, higher often known as GTC. CEO Jensen Huang, a well-known face for PC nerds all over the place, will probably be giving his standard keynote presentation. Set your clocks for 11 a.m. Japanese time or 8 a.m. Pacific if you wish to watch the livestream. After all PCWorld will carry you the information and evaluation instantly, when you occur to have one thing higher to do throughout the announcement.
The invitation particularly options the GeForce RTX emblem, versus Nvidia’s varied different manufacturers, and tells us to be prepared for “the newest breakthroughs in gaming, creating, and graphics know-how.” It’s about as near a affirmation as these items ever formally get.
Official particulars for next-gen RTX processors and playing cards are scarce, however we will glean a couple of possible options from the announcement of the information center-focused “Hopper” GPU again in March. RTX 4xxx playing cards will nearly actually help a PCIe 5.0 interface (no less than on the excessive finish), and the rumored “Lovelace” class of GPUs may additionally transfer to a extra environment friendly fabrication course of, both 5nm or 4nm (the RTX 3000 sequence used 8nm). Different rumors counsel excessive bumps in core counts, warmth manufacturing, and energy consumption, presumably necessitating new energy provides or conversion rails.
If Nvidia follows its standard launch course of, you possibly can anticipate high-end playing cards like a presumptive RTX 4090, 4080, and 4070 to be prepared earlier than the tip of the yr, with cheaper variants and upgraded “Ti” variants trickling in throughout the first half of 2023. That’s all hypothesis, in fact. Maybe extra crucially, we will hope that the lowered strain on the GPU market as variables like pandemic shortages, cryptocurrency {hardware} rushes, and unscrupulous scalpers imply you’ll really have the ability to purchase one in every of these new playing cards with out promoting any arms and/or legs.