Nvidia RTX 40 series release date, specifications and price

Next gen cards are soon to arrive and we're excited to find out more

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With the success of the RTX 30 series as some of the best graphics cards, Nvidia will want to continue its success. So we get the RTX 40 series announcement that is bringing plenty of improvements with it. The RTX 40 series GPUs are nicknamed Ada after Ada Lovelace, the 19th-century mathematician thought to be the first programmer. The series will try to further improve on the RTX lineup released with the 20 series in 2018.

Another massive stock injection of graphics cards can also help with the massive price hike we have seen throughout the pandemic. GPUs have never been so expensive and so with a large stock increase, we should expect a price drop. Although it may have brought stock and pricing down, the range itself isn’t exactly a great value choice.

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Nvidia RTX 40 series release date

Nvidia’s consumer GPU releases have been very regular so it may be the RTX 40 series release date will follow suit. Its recent GPU microarchitecture releases have been:

• Pascal (10 series) – May 2016 
• Turing (20/16 series) – September 2018 
• Ampere (30 series) – May 2020 

This sort of pattern leads us to believe that the RTX 4000 series will be released in the second half of 2022. Nvidia’s own data center roadmap shows Ampere Next (placeholder name) is expected for 2022 which would likely also provide consumer-grade hardware.

Now we know that the RTX 4090 came out on the 12th of October 2022. Since the start of the Ada series, it has now got a good range of GPUs to choose from with more on the way.

• RTX 4090: October 2022
• RTX 4080: November 2022
• RTX 4070 Ti: January 2023
• RTX 4070: April 2023
• RTX 4060 Ti 16GB: July 2023
• RTX 4060 Ti 8GB: May 2023
• RTX 4060: June 2023

Specifications

With the range of cards released, we now have the specs and benchmarks of what the cards have to offer. Increasing the CUDA count, clock rates, memory, and efficiency they have a lot on offer. Alongside the addition of new hardware and features such as the frame generation additions that allow for the use of DLSS 3.

Ada RTX 4000 series price

Although we expected the pricing to be somewhat competitive and of better value, it has been rather surprising to see what it comes out as. With such high pricing, a lot of the options are very difficult to accept and have seen a rather unpopular release cycle. Here are the current MSRPs for the RTX 40 series GPUs.

• RTX 4090: $1,599
• RTX 4080: $1,199
• RTX 4070 Ti: $799
• RTX 4070: $599
• RTX 4060 Ti 16GB: $499
• RTX 4060 Ti 8GB: $399
• RTX 4060: $299

Where to buy RTX 40 series

If you are after one of the new cards, you can find the retailers for you in our where to buy pages below.

• Where to buy RTX 4090
• Where to buy RTX 4080
• Where to buy RTX 4070 Ti
• Where to buy RTX 4070
• Where to buy RTX 4060 Ti