News Rumored Nvidia GeForce RTX 40-Series Specs Leak on Twitter

60% more cores and faster memory on the 4090 compared to 4080, with only a 7% (30W) higher TBP? And it doesn't gain one watt over the 3090 Ti, while the 4080 is 100W more than the 3080? What demonry is this?

All the rumors just haven't been adding up, to me...
What's with the huge gap between "4080" and "4090", core-wise?
And has it been addressed why AD103 is assumed to be desktop, when the "03" has been reserved for mobile since at least the 900-series?
Seems much more likely to me that the AD102 would be both the 4090 and 4080, at 450W and 420W respectively. AD103 would be a mobile chip. AD104 would be a 4070.
/my thoughts.

Doesn't Nvidia usually chooses prices much closer to release (as in: day of the announcement) ?
Sorry for so many question marks in this post. 😆
 
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With the 4090 and 4080 both running at over 400W, I think they are going to be a bit toasty. 🔥

You'll need at least a 1000W upwards PSU from the get go.

Update: I saw this on Gamers Nexus' YouTube channel. In relation to the increased power demand these new cards will have. (Video link should work in forum view.)

View: https://www.youtube.com/embed/wnRyyCsuHFQ
 
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I think it’s neat how much technology has grown in the past few years. The 4090 has 24gb of video ram, my old but reliable Gigabyte GT 1030 has 2gb.
 
What's with the huge gap between "4080" and "4090", core-wise?

And has it been addressed why AD103 is assumed to be desktop, when the "03" has been reserved for mobile since at least the 900-series

Doesn't Nvidia usually chooses prices much closer to release (as in: day of the announcement) ?

Room for 4080 Ti, 4080 Super, etc, which will be an in between card of some sort. Likely less memory and a slightly crippled version of the 4090 GPU. As usual Nvidia will see what the competition is up to and if there is a price point they can match, they will make a SKU that fits in logically.

There is no 103 chip that I can find, 100, 102, 104, and 106 and 107 in recent times. In the past 119, 117 were also common numbers.

If they really are doing a completely separate 103 chip, that would also explain the gap, it would be a smaller chip with the 4080 at the top. Not sure why the 4070 would then drop a further chip and not just be a 103-275 vs a 103-300. It could be they plan to have some overlap and use chips from multiple lines to make particular models. Wouldn't be the first time.

Pricing has to be done a little in advance so that they can pay import duties and the like.
 
I can't see the 4070 being GDDR5, given both AMD and Nvidia don't have GDDR5 models in RDNA 2/Ampere (respectively), and I don't think that Nvidia does in 20-series at all either. The most recent Nvidia card using GDDR5 was the 1650 I think.
 
And in a year and a half after the 40 series is out, Here come the 50 series, and the sh#t starts all over again, while they laugh all the way to the bank. I don't get the point of spending $800 - $1500 on a gpu just to play a $60 game.
 
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I'm assuming no one is buying anything but the 4070 unless they don't value PSUs and their hearing, and that's assuming any can be found at all.

I hope this is not the new trend, those power envelopes are insane, and if you pair these with say Intel CPUs.... oh boy.
 
And in a year and a half after the 40 series is out, Here come the 50 series, and the sh#t starts all over again, while they laugh all the way to the band. I don't get the point of spending $800 - $1500 on a gpu just to play a $60 game.
For the same reason some people enjoy the experience of high refresh rates and amazing graphics. Just like some people enjoy a cup of coffee or others, meth. Why some people live in a much larger than needed house. Or buy a car capable of 200+mph and sit in traffic. They do it because it makes them happy.
 
And in a year and a half after the 40 series is out, Here come the 50 series, and the sh#t starts all over again, while they laugh all the way to the band. I don't get the point of spending $800 - $1500 on a gpu just to play a $60 game.
Real gamers play games that cost $80,000 to $150,000 or more. $60 is like an indie game these days. If you want AAA prestige and pedigree, then you've got to pull out your wallet and make it rain! You wouldn't want to make poor Bobby cook his own meals or pilot his own helicopter, would you?!?!1?!1! /s

I'm waiting for the prices to fall further too. They're still too high. The power consumption on the 40 series would require me to get a new PSU which is not something I really want to deal with.