The 30 series graphics card has not got rid of the problem of shortage and premium, and the 40 Series graphics card is already on the way. According to the RTX 40 Series graphics card information disclosed by Moore's law is dead, the new series has a total of six models, namely ad102, ad103, AD104, ad106, ad107 and ad10b.
Although NVIDIA officials have not provided any information about the 40 Series graphics card, we can make a reasonable guess based on some signs and architecture information. Let's talk about the concerns and product information of the 40 Series graphics card.
40 Series graphics card performance: gddr7 video memory, performance level 4
In fact, the disclosed graphics card model is still relatively reliable, and it is also consistent with the information of 30 series graphics card. Specifically, among the six models that broke the news, ad102 corresponds to RTX 4090 and RTX 4080, ad103 corresponds to RTX 4070 and RTX 4060ti, and so on.
It is easy to find that the naming method of the new 40 Series graphics card is the same as that of the 30 series, and there are no super tail products, that is, the 40 Series graphics card will follow the naming rules from 4050 to 4090ti.
The 40 Series graphics card adopts ADA Lovelace architecture, and the CUDA core has increased by 70%. In addition, the L2 cache will also be greatly improved. It will be increased to 96MB on the basis of 6MB of ga102 core of 30 series graphics card, which can greatly improve the efficiency of graphics card and improve the delay of video memory.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that RTX 40 Series graphics card will support gddr7 video memory, which means that its performance will be greatly improved. The author guesses that the performance of the 40 Series graphics card will be greatly improved, and some models can even reach the level of level 4 compared with the previous generation products.
Specifically, the performance of RTX 4060 will reach the level of RTX 3080, while RTX 4070 can reach the level of RTX 3090. With the significant increase of CUDA core and L2 cache, the performance improvement of series 40 graphics card will be very considerable.
Power consumption of 40 Series graphics card: change the power supply to 600W and start
With the improvement of performance, there is also power consumption. Although ADA Lovelace architecture will have better energy consumption ratio, the improvement of power consumption is inevitable in the face of greatly improved performance.
The recommended power supply starting point of the 30 series graphics card is very high, the recommended power supply of the RTX 3060 is 550W, and the RTX 3070ti is 750W. On the whole, the 30 series graphics card has raised the starting point of power supply.
After coming to the 40 Series graphics card, the trend of improving the rated power of the power supply will continue. It is predicted that the RTX 4060 graphics card needs 650W power supply, while the RTX 4070ti needs more than 850W power supply. In the future, if you don't have a kW power supply, you're really embarrassed to say hello to others.
40 Series graphics card price: increase the price by one gear to bid farewell to cost performance
In fact, the improvement of performance and the increase of power supply demand are well understood, but in terms of price, the 40 Series graphics card may disappoint the party, because there is a shortage of chips before and performance improvement after, which makes the pricing of 40 Series graphics card more radical, and the initial price may be increased by one or even two grades.
Specifically, the price of RTX 4060 may be 2999 yuan, and the starting price of reference RTX 3060ti is 2999 yuan; The price of RTX 4070 may be 5699 yuan, and the starting price of reference RTX 3080 is 5499 yuan; The price of RTX 4080 may be 8999 yuan, and the starting price of reference RTX 3080ti is 8999 yuan; The pricing of RTX 4090 may be more exaggerated, reaching 19999 yuan.
Of course, these analyses are only speculation based on the existing information. If the news is true, the 40 Series graphics card will exchange a small increase in the price for a significant increase in performance. Although it is cost-effective in terms of cost performance, it is not good news for players to force a price increase to improve performance and let consumers lose more choices.