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GeForce 40 series
Series of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The GeForce 40 series is the latest family of consumer-level graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, succeeding the GeForce 30 series. The series was announced on September 20, 2022, at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2022 event.
![]() Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090, released in 2022, the series' flagship unit, in the Founders Edition | |
Release date | October 12, 2022; 21 months ago (2022-10-12) |
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Manufactured by | TSMC |
Designed by | Nvidia |
Marketed by | Nvidia |
Codename | AD10x |
Architecture | Ada Lovelace |
Models | GeForce RTX series |
Cores | 2560–16384 CUDA cores |
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Fabrication process | TSMC 4N[1] |
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API support | |
DirectX | Direct3D 12.0 Ultimate (feature level 12_2) Shader Model 6.8 |
OpenCL | OpenCL 3.0[lower-alpha 1] |
OpenGL | OpenGL 4.6 |
Vulkan | Vulkan 1.3 |
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Predecessor | GeForce 30 series |
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The RTX 4090 was released as the first model of the series on October 12, 2022, launched for $1,599 US,[1] and the 16GB RTX 4080 was released on November 16, 2022 for $1,199 US. An RTX 4080 12GB was announced in September 2022, originally to be priced at $899 US, however following some controversy in the media it was "unlaunched" by Nvidia. On January 5, 2023, that model would be released as the RTX 4070 Ti for $799 US. The RTX 4070 was then released on April 13, 2023 at $599 US MSRP. The RTX 4060 Ti was released on May 24, 2023 at $399 US, and the RTX 4060 on June 29, 2023, at $299 US. An RTX 4060 Ti 16GB followed on July 18, 2023, at $499 US. On January 8, 2024, Nvidia released the RTX 4070 SUPER at $599, RTX 4070 Ti SUPER at $799 and RTX 4080 SUPER at $999. These video cards were launched at higher specs and lower prices than their original counterparts.[3] In the same vein, the production of the RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Ti have stopped due to the SUPER series, but the 4070 will remain.[4]
The cards are based on Nvidia's Ada Lovelace architecture and feature Nvidia RTX's third-generation RT cores for hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing, and fourth-generation deep-learning-focused Tensor Cores.