According to the latest rumors, both AMD and Nvidia will likely launch in September. However, newer reports suggest that the launch of the Radeon RX 7000 series has been pushed back to Q4, 2022.
Based on Nvidia's 'Ada Lovelace' architecture, the RTX 40-series cards will be upgraded over the RTX 30-series GPUs that form Nvidia's current graphics card lineup. The GPUs will compete with not only AMD's forthcoming RX 7000-series cards but also Intel's Arc Alchemist GPUs, which are also expected to launch later this summer.
Prolific tipster kopite7kimi has claimed that Nvidia's Ada Lovelace (RTX 40-series) graphics cards will come out in early Q3, 2022. That tweet on Sunday led many social media s and news outlets to speculate that the cards might appear at Gamescom in August or even later this month at Computex, which is all set to make a return this year following a two-year hiatus due to Covid. However, in another tweet earlier today, kopite7kimi specified that the cards would launch in mid-July, which means gamers will have just two more months to wait before finding out all about the new GPUs. There's no word yet on which cards in the RTX 40-series will launch first, but speculations suggest that Nvidia will initially release the high-end models, including the RTX 4090, RTX 4080 and RTX 4070, before rolling out the entry-level RTX 4060 and RTX 4050 SKUs.
Nvidia's New GPUs Could Be Coming This Summer
While there's not a lot of information on the RTX 40 lineup, leaks in recent weeks have revealed a few tidbits about at least some of the cards in the lineup. For starters, persistent rumors in recent days have claimed that the RTX 4090 might be twice as fast as the RTX 3090. Earlier today, a new leak affirmed those rumors, even while stating that the new flagship could ship with only 126 streaming multiprocessors (SMs) enabled. The number is significantly lower than the 140-odd SMs that was expected previously. It also said that the card could have a 450W TDP, which is considerably lower than the 600W figure being touted previously.
Meanwhile, a tweet from the same tipster late last month suggested that alongside the standard RTX 40-series products, Nvidia is also working on another AD102 SKU with 900W TGP and 48GB of GDDR6X memory clocked at 24Gbps. It will reportedly require twin 16pin PCIe connectors and have a higher frequency than the regular products. The tweet did not mention the card's name or whether it will even be commercially available, but online speculations suggest that if such an over-the-top card does exist, it will likely be marketed as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Ti.