Nvidia to announce next-gen GPU architecture in September amid RTX 4090 rumors

Nvidia is on the brink of announce its next-gen GPU structure, codenamed Lovelace. Ampere is the present GPU structure that powers Nvidia’s RTX 30-series GPUs, after Turing debuted with the primary RTX playing cards in 2018. Nvidia is now anticipated to element its Lovelace GPU structure at GTC 2022 in September, with CEO Jensen Huang hinting at an announce through the firm’s latest earnings name.

“We’ll get by this over the subsequent few months and go into subsequent 12 months with our new structure,” stated Huang, whereas discussing a slowdown in gaming GPU demand. “I look ahead to telling you extra about it at GTC subsequent month.”

A brand new GPU structure announce doesn’t imply we’ll see RTX 40-series GPUs instantly, although. Nvidia first unveiled its Ampere structure for knowledge facilities, earlier than launching its RTX 30-series playing cards for customers months later. There’s at all times a slight delay between an structure announce and shopper GPU launch. With the RTX 20-series that was only a week, so it doesn’t essentially imply we’ll be ready months.

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Both approach, rumors proceed to recommend Nvidia is engaged on RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 GPUs. The monster RTX 4090 was initially rumored as a July launch, and it might provide an enormous efficiency increase over current RTX 3090 and even RTX 3090 Ti playing cards. Huang additionally hinted that current-gen RTX 30-series GPUs will reside alongside next-gen ones.

The rationale RTX 30-series and 40-series will seemingly co-exist is as a result of Nvidia has constructed too many GPUs. It’s at the moment being pressured to regulate retail pricing resulting from extra stock, and we’ve seen RTX 30-series playing cards showing at MSRP not too long ago, following years of costs being hiked 2-3x by resellers. The crypto crash has affected GPU demand, and the surplus stock makes it tougher to foretell when Nvidia is prone to really put its RTX 40-series playing cards on cabinets.

Nvidia’s GTC 2022 convention will run September nineteenth to twenty second, with Jensen Huang’s keynote set for September twentieth at 8AM PT / 11AM ET. “I look ahead to subsequent month’s GTC convention, the place we’ll share new advances of RTX reinventing 3D graphics in gaming, AI’s persevering with breakthroughs, and constructing the metaverse, the subsequent evolution of the Web,” says Huang.