GeForce 40 series
The GeForce 40 series is a family of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, succeeding the GeForce 30 series. The series was announced on September 20, 2022, at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2022 event.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 released in 2022, the series' flagship unit, in the Founders Edition | |
| Release date | October 12, 2022 |
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| Manufactured by | TSMC |
| Designed by | Nvidia |
| Marketed by | Nvidia |
| Codename | AD10x |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace |
| Models | GeForce RTX series |
| Cores | 2560–16384 CUDA cores |
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| Fabrication process | TSMC 4N |
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| API support | |
| DirectX | Direct3D 12.0 Ultimate (feature level 12_2) Shader Model 6.8 |
| OpenCL | OpenCL 3.0 |
| OpenGL | OpenGL 4.6 |
| Vulkan | Vulkan 1.3 |
| History | |
| Predecessor | GeForce 30 series |
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The RTX 4090 was released as the first model of the series on October 12, 2022, and the 16GB RTX 4080 was released on November 16, 2022. An RTX 4080 12GB was announced in September 2022, but following some controversy in the media, was "unlaunched" by Nvidia. On January 5, 2023, that model would be released as the RTX 4070 Ti. The RTX 4070 was then released on April 13, 2023. The RTX 4060 Ti was released on May 24, 2023, and the RTX 4060 on June 29, 2023. An RTX 4060 Ti 16GB followed on July 18, 2023. Further models of this generation of desktop and mobile GPUs are to release later in 2024. On January 8, 2024, Nvidia released the RTX 4070 SUPER, RTX 4070 Ti SUPER and RTX 4080 SUPER video cards at higher specs and lower prices than their original counterparts. In the same vein the production of the RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Ti have stopped due to the SUPER series, but the 4070 will remain.
The cards are based on Nvidia's Ada Lovelace architecture and feature Nvidia's third-generation RT cores for hardware-accelerated ray tracing (RTX), and fourth-generation deep-learning-focused Tensor Cores.