Khumail Thakur | 20 Sep 2022 08:31 PM
Our game reviews have always been on a gaming PC so it’s no surprise that we actually prefer team green’s Ray Tracing chops on our Nvidia RTX 3080 to benchmark games at their highest possible settings. Now you may not want to upgrade from the already fantastic 30-series cards but Nvidia’s performance claims might make you empty your pockets soon enough.
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 (₹1,55,000) and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 will support DLSS 3 which promises up to 4x times faster performance on the RTX 4090 and 2x times faster on the RTX 4080 compared to the last generation. The top dog in the 40-series is the RTX 4090 and it comes with up to 83 teraflops of shader power, more RT Cores for ray tracing and fourth-generation Tensor Cores for 2.8x times the performance upgrade. What all that means is you’ll have better ray tracing performance in the latest games. In fact, Nvidia says that it is a 16 times increase over the first ray-traced games from four years ago.
There’s also a new method for rescheduling shading workloads called Shader Execution Reordering (SER). In short, according to Nvidia, there should be a 3x performance boost to Ray Tracing and the in-game frame rate should be up by 25%.
The GeForce RTX 4090 comes with 16,384 Cuda cores and 24GB of Micron GDDR6X memory, and according to Nvidia, this is capable of consistently delivering over 100 frames per second at 4K-resolution gaming. The RTX 4090 also saps the same power as before so all the gains are packaged in an efficient manner.
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (₹1,16,000) comes in two configurations. There’s a 16GB variant with 9,728 Cuda cores and 16GB of Micron GDDR6X memory, whereas the 12GB variant (₹87,000) comes with 7,680 CUDA cores and 12GB of Micron GDDR6X memory.
There are also improvements coming to video editing and live streaming because of the new dual, eighth-generation AV1 encoders. And even Nvidia Broadcast is getting a slew of new updates. The Nvidia Omniverse will also get a new modding platform called Nvidia RTX Remix which essentially uses the GPU’s AI tools to remaster class games easily and make them prettier with ray tracing and DLSS.