NVIDIA - about burnt-out RTX 4090 connectors: 50 known cases, users' fault, but the case is under warranty

NVIDIA finally issued an official statement regarding the problem with melting 12VHPWR power connectors plugged into GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards.
After weeks of investigation, the company said the source of the problem was mating connectors improperly.NVIDIA said it knows of about 50 cases of melted connectors around the world.
To date, the company has concluded that the common cause of the problem is that \"the connector was not fully inserted into the video card.\" In fact, similar conclusions were reached the other day by the experts of the YouTube channel GamersNexus, who conducted their own independent investigation.Above - incompletely inserted connector, below - fully inserted connectorThe company noted that it is studying different approaches that would allow users to make sure that the connector is connected correctly before turning on the video card.
So far, NVIDIA recommends first plugging the power connector into the graphics card, making sure it is fully inserted and has no gaps, and then plugging the graphics card into a PCIe slot on the motherboard.NVIDIA also noted that it is committed to supporting customers and providing a fast warranty process for graphics cards, \"regardless of the cable or card used.
\"NVIDIA is still reviewing reports of melted connectors and looking for ways to ensure the card is properly connected to the power supply.
At the same time, the company did not specify whether the latter would entail changes to the existing design or some other drastic measures.
Also note that NVIDIA's statement about 50 cases indicates that the problem is not that widespread, given that NVIDIA and its partners have clearly sold tens, if not hundreds of thousands of GeForce RTX 4090s worldwide.

NVIDIA to unveil new GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards Jan.3

At yesterday's quarterly event, NVIDIA management admitted to being quite pleased with the market debut of the first two members of the Ada Lovelace gaming architecture in the form of GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 graphics cards, but is soon going to introduce new models in the family.
Now we found out that the next NVIDIA presentation will be held on January 3, at CES 2023.Source image: NVIDIAOn the eve of NVIDIA sent out the invitations to the press at a virtual event, which will be held during CES 2023 in Las Vegas, reports news resource PCMag.
The presentation will be broadcasted on January 3 at 8 am local time.
The only thing mentioned is NVIDIA's willingness to share information about \"cutting-edge innovations made possible by accelerated computing\".
You can watch the broadcast directly on the official NVIDIA website.It is possible that the event in early January, among other things, will allow NVIDIA to bring back the relevance of GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card with 12 GB of memory, whose announcement was hastily canceled earlier.
Most likely, this graphics solution will debut under another name, because earlier NVIDIA employees acknowledged the mistake of using the designation \"GeForce RTX 4080\" for two different graphics cards.
It is assumed that the said graphics card with 12 GB of memory can go under the name GeForce RTX 4070 Ti with a price lower than the initially planned $ 899.
The launch of AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX ($999) and Radeon RX 7900 XT ($899) next month forces NVIDIA to think about countermeasures, which would not undermine profitability of GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080.
The appearance of a third video card in the family could well restore the balance of power.

NVIDIA says huge demand for RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 - the company is preparing many new GeForce RTX 40-series products

CFO Colette Kress took the opening remarks at the quarterly reporting conference NVIDIA called the past stages of debut of graphics cards with GPUs based on Ada Lovelace architecture extremely successful.
GeForce RTX 4090 has been sold out in many markets since mid-October, the GeForce RTX 4080 is already on sale, and in general, NVIDIA is ready to offer \"many new products\" with this gaming architecture.Image source: NVIDIAThe last promise was made by the founder and permanent head of NVIDIA Jensen Huang (Jensen Huang).
He stressed that now Ada Lovelace architecture carriers are positioned in the upper price segment.
GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards were released in large quantities, but this did not prevent customers from buying out their first batch in just minutes, as stated by the CEO of NVIDIA.
The market, he said, has received both the GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 very favorably, and therefore management is very enthusiastic about this debut.
In addition, it proves the strength, resilience and transparency of the gaming segment of the market, as summarized by the company's founder.In the third quarter of the current fiscal year, as explained by NVIDIA management in response to a related question from analysts at the quarterly event, the value equivalent of product inventory increased by $560 million sequentially.According to the company's CFO, this increase was only partly due to the need to accumulate a certain inventory of new architecture media: Ada Lovelace in the gaming segment and Hopper in c The networking segment, which is chiefly served by Mellanox products, also had a significant impact on the stock growth.
The company had to write off $702 mn of stocks, but the bulk of these losses were accounted for by A100 computing gas pedals.
Recall, the latter were intended for use in server systems by Chinese customers, but in the third quarter, after the new U.S.
sanctions the company hastily offered them a replacement in the form of a chip A800, whose performance is limited at the hardware level, and therefore avoids the U.S.
sanctions.
As a result, demand from Chinese customers switched to new \"alternative solutions\" and part of the stock of old A100s had to be written off.
As noted by NVIDIA executives at the quarterly event, the negative impact of sanctions in the third quarter was largely offset by the introduction of gas pedals A800 to the Chinese market, clearly adapted to the new U.S.
export control requirements.

Yeston presented its version of GeForce RTX 4090 - this is the first flagship graphics card for the brand

Chinese brand Yeston started sales of GeForce RTX 4090 Deluxe graphics card.
Curiously enough, for Yeston this is the first card of the flagship segment.
The manufacturer has long been producing solutions based on NVIDIA and AMD chips, but until then has not released graphics cards such as the GeForce RTX 3090 and Radeon RX 6900 XT, being limited to models of low and medium segments.
Source images: YestonJust like VideoCardz says, the novelty Yeston GeForce RTX 4090 Deluxe is almost a literal copy of previously introduced models GeForce RTX 4090 Phantom from another Chinese manufacturer, Gainward.Videokarta built on a non-reference printed circuit board with 20-phase power subsystem VRM with the scheme 16 + 4.
It has one 12+4 pin 12VHPWR power connector.
It has a massive three fan cooling system and will consume 470 W of power only.
In the PC card case takes more than three slots expansion, and its weight is almost 2 pounds.At the core of the Yeston GeForce RTX 4090 Deluxe graphics processor AD102 with 16 384 cores CUDA.
The card has on board 24 GB of memory GDDR6X with 384-bit bus support.
Factory GPU overclocking at the gas pedal does not.
The chip runs at up to 2520 MHz.
The card is priced at 14,999 yuan (about $2060).
Deliveries should begin next week.

Users may be to blame for problems with GeForce RTX 4090 power connector

Users themselves may be the source of problems with 12+4-pin 12VHPWR power connectors on GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards.
Corsair power supply expert with a nickname JonnyGuru believes that users incorrectly connect adapters or cables to the video card power connector, which causes the melting of connectors.To recap, shortly after the launch of GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards in the web began to appear reports of melting power connectors 12VHPWR.
Initially it was assumed that the reason for this are low-quality adapters, which NVIDIA and its partners put in the set of video cards.
These adapters turn four 8-pin connectors into one new 12+4-pin connector.
Later on it turned out that even when connecting a video card without an adapter, i.e.
directly to a modern power adapter with a native 12VHPWR cable, the connector can melt.
Now JonnyGuru came up with the theory that users might not fully plug the 12+4 pin connector into the graphics card slot, which could lead to connection problems and lead to increased resistance, higher temperatures and melting of the connectors.
This theory is not new and has not yet been 100% confirmed.
Nevertheless, JonnyGuru told us how exactly he came to this version of events.
Firstly, the expert connected Corsair HX1500i power adapter to GeForce RTX 4090 video card, but using only three 8-pin connectors, which should provide higher current and thus higher heating.
To replicate the problem and cause the connector to overheat, JonnyGuru started messing with the connectors, especially trying to break the solder strength.
After the tests everything remained in its place, it was not so easy to break the connector, and the temperature did not exceed 53 °C.Then the expert investigated all known cases of connector melting, looking through every published photo and comparing undamaged connections with the ones which faced melting.
The conclusion was, \"ANY 12VHPWR connector has the potential to melt because ANY of them can be difficult to insert.
\u003C...> VERY HARD to fully insert\".The expert noted that in many cases the damaged connector was not fully, fully plugged into the video card - there was a small gap that could lead to problems.
JonnyGuru recommends users who are worried about their GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards to use an electrical contact lubricant which will ensure better contact between the connector and the video card connector.NVIDIA has not yet given any comment on the situation.
Meanwhile, PCI-SIG, which is in charge of certifying everything related to the PCIe standard, including power connectors, has distributed a notice that hints at the upcoming version of the 12+4-pin 12VHPWR connector.
A fresh specification could be published by December 6, 2022.

Bloggers showed a prototype GeForce RTX 4090 from EVGA, which will never be released again

EVGA left the graphics card market in September due to a disagreement with NVIDIA, refusing to release new GeForce RTX 40-series products.
However, before making that decision, the manufacturer assembled several prototype GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards for testing.
Some of these gas pedals fell into the hands of popular technobloggers.One of those who received an early engineering sample of EVGA GeForce RTX 4090 in his collection of graphics gas pedals was JayzTwoCents.
According to its status, the graphics card doesn't even have an official name.
Instead of GeForce RTX 4090, the manufacturer used the \"Next Gen Graphics\" label.
Blogger shared his impressions about the unreleased video card in his latest video.The first thing he noted is a very compact for the non-reference version of the size of the prototype GeForce RTX 4090 from EVGA.
He compared it to the ASUS GeForce RTX 4090 ROG Strix and pointed out that many other vendors' GeForce RTX 4090 prototypes look more compact compared to the latter.
EVGA GeForce RTX 4090 top and ASUS GeForce RTX 4090 ROG Strix bottomThe EVGA GeForce RTX 4090 prototype is slightly longer than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW from the same manufacturer.
The new card has a larger cooling system with a more massive radiator and tighter arrangement of the ribs, as well as larger diameter fans.
EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW top and GeForce RTX 4090 bottom.
Image source: YouTube / JayzTwoCents The EVGA GeForce RTX 4090 sample shown was to be part of the For The Win 3 (FTW3) series and to add to the product range equipped with the EVGA ICX cooling system.
A distinctive feature of the EVGA GeForce RTX 4090 was supposed to be a 12+4 pin power connector located on the back end of the gas pedal.
Such location of the connector allows to provide enough space for proper positioning of the cable and power adapter from four 8-pin to one 12+4-pin 12VHPWR connector, which has been questioned a lot lately.
Unfortunately, so far none of the manufacturers of GeForce RTX 4090 has placed the connector on the end.
The power connector is usually located at the top of the graphics card, which leaves very little space for cable routing, which in this case is very close to the wall of the PC case.The prototype EVGA GeForce RTX 4090 turned out to be fully operational.
It is based on a qualification sample of the AD102 graphics processor.
The card can even be controlled via EVGA's proprietary Precision software.
Image source: YouTube / JayzTwoCentsSome features, however, were still unavailable here.
For example, the software did not allow to increase the power consumption indicator for more efficient manual overclocking.
Despite this, even with the standard power settings the blogger was able to overclock the graphics processor of the video card to a frequency above 3.0 GHz at the standard 2520 MHz, as well as to experiment with the GDDR6X memory frequency settings.Steve Burke from the YouTube channel GamersNexus also received an EVGA GeForce RTX 4090 prototype for review.
His interest was primarily in taking the graphics card apart.
Steve showed that the solution from EVGA had to be equipped with a very reinforced VRM power subsystem.
Disassembling the card also revealed that its cooling system included a large radiator with a large evaporation chamber and seven 8mm diameter heat pipes.

Manufacturers have started replacing the power adapters that come with the GeForce RTX 4090

Gainward has decided to delay shipping new batches of GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards in their own variants until mid-November.
The manufacturer wants to replace the potentially problematic complete power adapters with four 8-pin connectors on one side and 12+4 pin 12VHPRW connector on the other.Image source: VideoCardzThe news was shared by one of the Reddit forum users from Australia.
He ordered a Gainward card in one of the local stores, but he said in correspondence that the vendor has decided to replace the power adapter included in the kit, so the order will have to wait a bit.
According to the seller, other manufacturers of GeForce RTX 4090 are likely to come to a similar decision.
Image source: Reddit / TechFastThe retailer expects Gainward to be able to replace the adapter by mid-November.
After that, the retailer will be able to ship the graphics gas pedal to the customer.
The seller adds in his letter that the replacement adapter is probably due to the increasing number of complaints from owners of GeForce RTX 4090, who encountered its melting due to overheating during operation.Earlier noted, the problem of melting began to occur not only in the power adapter that came with the video cards, but also in native cables with 12VHPWR connector from the latest power supplies.
The number of such cases is still very small, so it is too early to draw conclusions.
The company is conducting its own investigation into the incidents, but has not yet given any official comment on the progress of the process.
It is possible that the manufacturer is still trying to figure out the causes of the problem.
At the same time no one recalls GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards from sale.

New problems with GeForce RTX 4090 - Genuine PSU cables with 12+4-pin connector also melt

Late last month some owners of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards reported that their power adapters with four 8-pin connectors on one side and 12+4 pin 12VHPRW connector on the other side burnt out.
Now on Reddit and Facebook* there were reports about cases of melting of not only adapters, but also of native 12VHPRW power cables from ATX 3.0 power supplies.Image source: Ricky TO / Facebook*Despite quite a high price of GeForce RTX 4090, the gas pedal is one of the best options for gamers.
However, against this backdrop, it's not the price of the graphics card that scares consumers away, but the fact that the included 12+4-pin power adapter could be dangerous.
Only on Reddit there were 18 such cases with video cards from different vendors.
NVIDIA responded to these reports and launched an investigation, instructing vendors to return faulty graphics cards to the lab to investigate the problem.One Reddit community member was using an MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming X Trio 24G graphics card and a MED Ai1300P power supply.
At that time there were some reports on the Internet about possible melting of the video card adapter, so he decided to use an ATX 3.0 power supply with a native 12VHPWR connector.
However, after a short period of use, the power connector of the graphics card still melted, which can be seen in the photos posted by the user.
MSI has reportedly contacted the user and offered to replace the video card and power supply.NVIDIA has not yet made an official statement following the investigation.
Perhaps, the manufacturer is still trying to figure out the causes of the problem.
At the moment we know about the cases of 12+4-pin connector melting, but it can't be excluded that the problem is not in the connector design.
It could be that the cause of the meltdown is the 12VHPWR connector, poor quality components or the video card itself in combination with different factors.
* Included in the list of public associations and religious organizations in respect of which there is an enforceable court decision to liquidate or ban their activities on the grounds provided by Federal Law No.
114-FZ of July 25, 2002 \"On Counteracting Extremist Activity\".

Manufacturers have started replacing the power adapters that come with the GeForce RTX 4090

GeForce RTX 4090 GPU overclocked to 3705 MHz and set several records

The Overclocked Gaming Systems (OGS) enthusiast team overclocked the Galax GeForce RTX 4090 HOF graphics card GPU to an impressive 3705 MHz clock rate.

Of course, we're talking about overclocking with extreme liquid nitrogen cooling.As a result, the graphics card set new performance records in the tests 3DMark Port Royal and GPUPI v3.3 (32B).

The fact that the company Galax prepares to release gpu GeForce RTX 4090 HOF, reported the other day, when the Network appeared on the pictures of its circuit board.This is the first known version of the GeForce RTX 4090, equipped with two 12 + 4-pin 12VHPWR power connectors, which together are able to transmit to the video card to 1200 watts of power.

Increase the maximum frequency of the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU to 3705 MHz, which is 65.77% higher than the reference value of 2520 MHz, overclocking team OGS managed during the test of computing performance GPUPI for one gas pedal.

The frequency of video memory was not changed by the enthusiasts.When overclocked, the video card managed to compute in the GPUPI test in just 49 seconds and 49 milliseconds.

The closest result in this test is 57 seconds and 724 milliseconds.GeForce RTX 4090 showed it too, but with GPU frequency only at 3210 MHz. 

Galax GeForce RTX 4090 HOF in the GPUPI test.Source image: HWBOTThe OGS team also managed to break the previous graphics performance record in the 3DMark Port Royal synthetic test.

Here the GeForce RTX 4090 HOF graphics chip was running at 3570 MHz.The gpu scored 31,096 points in the test, more than 1,000 points above the previous record. 

Galax GeForce RTX 4090 HOF in the 3DMark Port Royal test.

The Galax GeForce RTX 4090 HOF is obviously the most powerful non-standard version of this graphics card at the moment.

With the absence of Kingpin models from EVGA, which decided to leave the graphics card market, as well as the lack of solutions from competitors Galax version of the graphics card could be the choice for most overclocking enthusiasts.

Turns out that 5-14% of GeForce RTX 4090 adapters use lower grade wires than others

An investigation into the problem of melting power connectors on GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards has revealed that not everyone gets the same adapter.
Surveys conducted by several technology media outlets showed that some users received an adapter with a video card that uses lower grade wires.For starters, recall that last week the problem of melting new 12+4-pin power connectors (12VHPWR) on GeForce RTX 4090 video cards surfaced.
After that Igor's Lab seemed to suggest that it was caused by poor quality adapters from four regular 8-pin connectors to one 12+4 pin new ones.
But the Gamers Nexus research showed that the problem is unlikely to be just the adapters - they failed to make the connectors melt even after damaging them.
Gamers Nexus also noticed that the adapters they tested used wire rated at 300V (marked 14AWG, 105C), while the wire in Igor's Lab pictures was rated at 150V (marked 16AWG, 105C).
Gamers Nexus and the Hardware Luxx website asked their audience how common wires of this or that type are.Gamers Nexus stated that out of 130 GeForce RTX 4090 owners surveyed, only 7 people or only 5.4% had adapters with lower class wires, while the rest had 300V wires.
In Germany Hardware Luxx has a smaller sample so far - 29 people, of which 86.2% have adapters with 300V wires, while 13.8% have adapters with 150V wires.
Interestingly, in Germany, adapters with lower-grade wires are more common.That said, even if you have an adapter with 150V wires, don't panic.
At this point, there is no known connection between wire cross-section and connector meltdown.
Nevertheless, with at least 15 \"documented\" cases of adapter meltdowns so far, any GeForce RTX 4090 owner should exercise caution until NVIDIA and its partners release an official statement about what's going on.

Potentially problematic GeForce RTX 4090 adapters tested: they didn't melt even with damage

Last week the scandal with melting 12+4-pin power connectors at GeForce RTX 4090 owners began to break.
It turned out that the problem could be caused by poor-quality power adapters, used by NVIDIA and some partners to assemble their cards with four 8-pin to 12+4 pin connectors.
But YouTube channel Gamers Nexus was unable to confirm this hypothesis.\tAfter German resource Igor's Lab publication about substandard performance of adapters with 12VHPWR socket, Gamers Nexus YouTube channel decided to check this by examining several adapters from ASUS GeForce RTX 4090 ROG Strix, Colorful GeForce RTX 4090 Neptune OC and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition graphics cards.
And several things in the Igor's Lab investigation were called into question at once.\tFirstly, the cables on the adapter opened by the German resource have a different marking - they are designed for 150 V, whereas all Gamers Nexus adapters use cables for 300 V.
Second, the soldering of cables to connectors is different: while Igor's Lab cables are soldered separately, GN cables are soldered in pairs.
In the latter case, a larger contact area is provided and the connection is potentially more reliable.
Gamers Nexus tested many adapters, all of which were different from what Igor's Lab demonstrated.\t\t\t\tGamers Nexus replicated several cable failure scenarios to measure connector temperatures and figure out when melting was most likely to occur.
The tests were conducted with a normal power connector, a damaged connector with bad contact, as well as two missing contacts (two wires on the sides were cut and current only flowed through the center two), and finally one cut and one bad contact.
The tests were done with normal frequencies and with overclocking.
FurMark and other applications were used for the tests.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAs a result, it was not possible to burn the connector.
The maximum temperature to which the power connector was heated was +74.4 °C.
In this case the cable with damage gets hotter than the whole one.
So, in theory, this could lead to problems.
But it was not possible to repeat them in laboratory conditions yet.We should add that NVIDIA itself urged all its partners, to whom consumers will return GeForce RTX 4090 with melted connectors, to send video cards to study them.

GeForce RTX 4090 tested at 8K resolution - 520 FPS in Overwatch 2

GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card was tested in games at 8K resolution.
For this purpose, YouTube channel The Tech Chap assembled a new computer based on Ryzen 9 7950X and flagship Samsung TV supporting the appropriate resolution - 7680 × 4320 pixels.Image source: YouTube / The Tech СharIt should be noted that when the flagship graphics card of last generation GeForce RTX 3090 was announced, NVIDIA has positioned it as \"the first solution for gaming in 8K\".
However, two years after its release, displays with support for 8K resolution have still not conquered the market.
Such solutions remain niche and very expensive.
Most display manufacturers produce monitors with resolution up to 4K, sometimes there are 5K models.
And 8K is found only in televisions, and they can be considered a rarity.
But YouTube channel The Tech Chap decided to see how GeForce RTX 4090 copes with 8K.Test system was equipped with a flagship 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X on architecture Zen 4, motherboard ASUS ROG Maximus X670E Hero and 32 GB RAM standard DDR5-6200.
The PC was connected to a 65-inch Samsung Neo QLED QN800B 8K TV for $3500.
The graphics card performance was tested in today's demanding games such as Cyberpunk 2077, Flight Simulator, Forza Horizon 5 and others.
In Cyberpunk 2077 flagship GeForce RTX 4090 provided 8K speed up to 65 frames per second, but only with activated AI scaling DLSS 3 - without it the game at this resolution did not go.
In turn, GeForce RTX 3090 was able to provide only 28 FPS, also only with DLSS.
True, the old flagship uses less advanced DLSS 2.1.
In Microsoft Flight Simulator the result of GeForce RTX 4090 at 8K resolution was 81 frames per second.
Also with activated AI scaling.
In its turn RTX 3090 showed nearly twice less result - 46 FPS.
In Forza Horizon 5 game the average performance of new flagship in 8K was 76 FPS without DLSS.
Also the card was tested in Overwatch 2, where it gave 520 FPS.
This is twice as much as the GeForce RTX 3090 at the same settings.
DLSS was not used in this test as well.
Call of Duty: Warzone and Crysis Remastered also took part in the tests.
In the latter case DLSS and ray tracing were activated.
GeForce RTX 4090 in Crysis Remastered at 8K resolution showed 65 FPS, and in CoD: Warzone - 117 FPS.
Also recall that yesterday published a full review of the flagship graphics card GeForce RTX 4090.
The main points from them can be found in a separate article.

NVIDIA engineer showed prototypes of GeForce RTX 4090 cooling systems and fans

Manufacturers usually don't show early prototypes of their products.
However, there are exceptions.
On the popular YouTube channel Gamers Nexus, NVIDIA engineer Malcolm Gutenberg (Malcom Gutenburg), which deals with graphics card cooling, shared some interesting details about the development of the new flagship GeForce RTX 4090.Image source: Gamers NexusIn particular, Gutenberg talked about the cooling system features GeForce RTX 4090 graphics gas pedal, and also showed early prototypes of cooling systems that NVIDIA has designed for this graphics card.
An NVIDIA engineer showed a cut radiator of the GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition reference version.
In comparison with the previous generation flagship, GeForce RTX 3090, the new graphics card has changed the design of the evaporation chamber.
It became wider, due to which the contact area with the graphics processor increased.The radiator of the cooling system of the new flagship also underwent changes.
For example, the company's engineers increased the height of its ribs to increase the area of heat dissipation.Also NVIDIA engineer showed early prototypes of the parts of the radiator, which are installed fans.
These prototypes were used to design the cooling system based on airflow and noise level data.
NVIDIA had previously said that it had developed multiple fan models for use in the GeForce RTX 4090, but ultimately chose the most optimal one.
The fan has increased in size relative to the GeForce RTX 3090.
The manufacturer did this not only to increase airflow, but also to improve the acoustic characteristics of the cooling system to reduce its noise level.
Gamers Nexus video also showed the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card board with the Ada Lovelace AD102 GPU and other elements.
Recall that sales of the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card will begin on October 12.

GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 16GB can conquer 3.0 GHz, leaks show

Graphics processors of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 16GB graphics cards can run at 3.0 GHz.
This is indicated by leaks collected by VideoCardz.
Recall that the GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GPUs have officially announced clock speeds of 2520 and 2505 MHz under load, respectively.Image source: BillibiliSam NVIDIA previously demonstrated that the GeForce RTX 4090 is able to run up to 2.85 GHz under load and without additional overclocking.
The transition to the new architecture Ada Lovelace and more advanced GPU manufacturing process in next-generation graphics cards, apparently, also laid a huge potential for additional manual overclocking of new gas pedals.
According to a leak appeared in the Chinese social network Bilibili, in the stress test graphics subsystem with MSI Kombustor application graphics processor GeForce RTX 4090 card worked without problems at 3.0 GHz, while the power consumption of the whole graphics card was almost 426 W.
On this basis, we can assume that in less stressful conditions, the graphics card chip will be able to work at 3.1 GHz.
In addition, in the stress test Furmark GPU GeForce RTX 4090 worked at 2.64 GHz, but the peak power consumption of the video card was almost 616 W.
Recall that the officially announced power consumption figure GeForce RTX 4090 is 450 watts.Unfortunately, the leak does not disclose data on the temperature performance of the GPU and other elements on the graphics card.
According to another leak, GeForce RTX 4080 16GB is also capable of running at 3.0 GHz.
It is very likely that here we are also talking about additional manual overclocking of the gas pedal.
The data was provided by the same source which previously reported on the performance of the graphics card in the synthetic tests 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra and 3DMark Time Spy.
Source image: ChirhellThe new leak indicates that the maximum temperature of the graphics processor was 60.8 ° C, and the hottest point of the graphics card temperature reached 75.4 ° C.
According to GPU-Z software, the peak power consumption of the gas pedal was 333W and 290.7W for the GPU.
Recall that the official stated power consumption figure GeForce RTX 4080 16GB is 320 watts.
Source image: CrystalThe overclocking performance of GeForce RTX 4080 16GB graphics card was tested in the 3DMark Time Spy synthetic test.
Due to the higher frequency after manual overclocking the gas pedal got away from its competitors even more, as you can see in the table below.
Source image: VideoCardzThe flagship GeForce RTX 4090 will go on sale on October 12.
Its recommended price is $1599.
The GeForce RTX 4080 16GB will go on sale in November.
Its suggested price is $1199.

NVIDIA: GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card will provide over 500 FPS at 1440p resolution in Overwatch 2

There is still a month before the GeForce RTX 4080 is released, but the flagship GeForce RTX 4090 will go on sale next week.
On this occasion, NVIDIA company decided to share the data about the performance of their most powerful card in the game Overwatch 2.
There is information about the performance of other models as well.Image source: VideoCardz According to the published NVIDIA graphics, GeForce RTX 4090 is capable of delivering more than 500 frames per second at 2560 × 1440 resolution at maximum graphics settings in Overwatch 2.The difference between the GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 16GB is very significant - 139 frames per second.
Both cards are positioned by the manufacturer as solutions that can deliver more than 360 frames per second, which is ideal for owners of monitors that support 360 Hz refresh.
Image source: NVIDIAWhat about the younger version of GeForce RTX 4080, equipped with 12 GB of memory, it in the same game Overwatch 2 demonstrates just under 300 frames per second.
Unfortunately, the GeForce RTX 3090 has not been added to the performance chart for comparison.
However, NVIDIA did provide information on the performance of the GeForce RTX 3080, which the GeForce RTX 4080 12GB beats by 47 frames per second.NVIDIA recommends the following graphics settings for Overwatch 2 depending on which graphics card you have:NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 - 1080p to get 144+ FPS;NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti - 1080p to get 360+ FPS;NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16GB - 1440p to get 360+ FPS;NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 - 1440p to get 500+ FPS.

GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards started to appear on virtual counters - from $1600 in the US and from €2000 in Europe

In preparation for the launch of sales of the flagship GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card, scheduled for October 12, the novelty began to appear on the websites of various Western retailers.
In some cases, the card is accompanied by a recommended price of $ 1599, but there are proposals much more expensive.Image source: ASUSOne of the major American retailers, Newegg, put up ten different versions of GeForce RTX 4090 from different manufacturers.
In particular, models from ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI showed up.
Going forward, variants of the gas pedal from Colorful, Inno3D, Palit, PNY and Zotac are also expected.The most affordable offerings are MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming Trio, ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4090 and Gigabyte Windforce GeForce RTX 4090 which are priced at a recommended $1599.
Image source: NeweggFollowed by models that have received price tags of $1650 and above.
These are models that have received factory overclocking of the GPUs.
MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim graphics card equipped with a hybrid liquid cooling system is priced at $1800.
At that the most expensive video card is ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 which is priced at $1999.On the European market the recommended prices are much higher as we have already announced.
And the prices in the stores are much higher as well.
For example, the prices of GeForce RTX 4090 in the Finnish retail chain Proshop start at 2,000 euros.
That much they ask, for example, for ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4090 and Gigabyte Windforce GeForce RTX 4090.
The model Inno3D GeForce RTX 4090 X3 OC is estimated at 2100 euros.
And the price range for Inno3D GeForce RTX 4090 iChill Frostbite, iChill Black, as well as MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X models is from 2300 to 2400 euros.
Image source: ProshorObviously, more expensive are priced models that have received factory overclocking of the processor.
Again, the most expensive versions are the ROG Strix versions from ASUS, which are priced at 2530 and 2550 euros.

NVIDIA announced that GeForce RTX 4000 graphics cards will get \"smart\" adapters to connect to older power supplies

NVIDIA has answered the most frequently asked questions regarding powering the new GeForce RTX 40-series graphics gas pedals.
In particular, the company revealed more details about the complete adapters that are needed to connect the new graphics cards to older power supplies.Image source: NVIDIAThe GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards do not require new ATX 3.0 and PCIe 5.0-compliant power supplies.
The most important requirement for the power supply unit is its power.
So, for the flagship GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card, NVIDIA recommends using a PSU with 850W of power.
At that, the declared power consumption of the gas pedal itself can be up to 450W.
For GeForce RTX 4080 16GB (320W) and RTX 4080 12GB (285W) models, the company recommends a 750W and 700W PSU, respectively.GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards feature new 12+4-pin PCIe 5.0 12VHPWR power connector.
To be compatible with old power supplies that do not have power cables with the new connector, NVIDIA included a video card special adapter from the four standard 8-pin connectors to the new 12VHPWR.Company calls the adapter itself \"smart\".
It is compatible with the ATX 2.0 standard and has an active converter which converts the signals from the old power supply to the corresponding signals for the new PCIe 5.0 (ATX 3.0) socket.
This provides a quality power supply, and should not have any problems with power cards from old PSUs.The manufacturer adds that the GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 16GB graphics cards requires a minimum of three standard 8-pin connectors through the adapter to transmit 450 W of power, but it is better if you connect all four cables to the adapter - especially if you plan to overclock the GPU.NVIDIA indicates that the adapter has a declared life of 30 connections / disconnections, which is standard for PCIe connectors The company recommends leaving 36mm of free space above the graphics card where the adapter is located for easy installation and allowable bending.

In Europe, the prices of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards were much higher than in the U.S.- the cheapest one will cost €1099

NVIDIA before the announcement of graphics cards GeForce RTX 40-series reduced the recommended prices for previous generation graphics cards in Europe (for example, GeForce RTX 3090 became cheaper by €350).
At the same time the company significantly raised the price of graphics cards GeForce RTX 40-series compared to its predecessors, and in Europe, the price increase was much more significant than in the U.S.
Source image: NVIDIA The recommended prices in the U.S.
for GeForce RTX 4090, RTX 4080 16GB and RTX 4080 12GB models are $1,599, $1,199 and $899 (excluding VAT).
By comparison, at the launch of sales the GeForce RTX 3080 10GB video card in the U.S.
was priced at $699.
It turns out that the most affordable version of the GeForce RTX 4080 is $200 more expensive than its predecessor.
In turn, the GeForce RTX 4080 16GB in the U.S.
was $400 more expensive than the GeForce RTX 3080 12GB.
And the flagship GeForce RTX 4090 is valued at $ 100 more expensive than the GeForce RTX 3090, but at the same time for $ 400 cheaper than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.The situation with the recommended prices in Europe is much worse.
For example, in Germany the most affordable videocard of a new generation - GeForce RTX 4080 12GB - is evaluated by NVIDIA at 1099 euros (which is about the same as $1090)! In turn, GeForce RTX 4080 16GB and GeForce RTX 4090 got recommended prices of 1469 and 1949 euros respectively.Of course, German prices include VAT, which is 19%.
However, in the past, European prices were not that much different from American prices.
For example, the already mentioned GeForce RTX 3080 10GB got a recommended price tag of 719 euros in Germany.
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti was sold in the U.S.
and Germany for the same price of 1199, the only difference is that in the U.S.
it was dollars, and in Germany - the euro.But now the difference has become huge - the European were more than 20% higher than the American.
And this applies not only to Germany, but to all of Europe.
For example in Poland the cheapest video card of new generation is valued at 5,299 zlotys or 1,117 euros according to the current exchange rate.

NVIDIA introduced GeForce RTX 4090 and two GeForce RTX 4080 next-generation gas pedals priced from $899

NVIDIA has officially introduced the next generation of GeForce RTX 4000 graphics gas pedals.
In today's presentation, its CEO Jensen Huang announced the first models of the new series, the GeForce RTX 4090, the GeForce RTX 4080 with 16GB of memory, and the GeForce RTX 4080 with 12GB of memory.
In the reference design new items largely repeat the design of previous models.Image source: NVIDIAVideo cards GeForce RTX 4000 use GPUs based on the new architecture Ada Lovelace.
The chips have up to 76 billion transistors and are produced on 4nm TSMC N4 process.
The key features of the new architecture are 3rd generation RT cores and 4th generation tensor cores.
The company said that the new graphics cards based on Ada Lovelace architecture support DLSS 3.0 image scaling technology, which significantly improves gaming performance.
At the core of the flagship graphics card GeForce RTX 4090 is a graphics processor AD102-300 with 16 384 cores CUDA.
The declared frequency of its work is up to 2520 MHz.
The theoretical performance of the graphics card in single precision operations is 82.6 Tflops, which is 2.3 times higher than its predecessor on the Ampere architecture (GeForce RTX 3090).
It features 24 Gb of GDDR6X memory, 384 bit bus, 21 GHz effective frequency and 1 Tbytes/s peak bandwidth.
We are talking about power consumption of 450W, which is 100W better than the GeForce RTX 3090.
According to Jensen Huang, GeForce RTX 4090 is up to 4 times faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.On sale GeForce RTX 4090 will appear on October 12.
Its recommended price is $1599.
Along with the new flagship gas pedal Huang introduced two cards with the same name, but with different specifications.
The first is the GeForce RTX 4080 16GB.
At its core is half-cut processor AD103-300 with 9728 CUDA cores, running at up to 2505 MHz.
The card has 16 GB of GDDR6X memory with a 256-bit bus bit rate of 22.5 Gbit/s per pin (22.5 GHz effective frequency) and a bandwidth of 720 GB/s.
It has a claimed power consumption rating of 320W.
The model will go on sale in November.
Its recommended price is $1199.What was supposed to be the GeForce RTX 4070 model in the end was presented under the name GeForce RTX 4080 12GB.
This card uses an AD104-400 GPU with 7,680 CUDA cores, running at up to 2,610 MHz.
It has 12GB of GDDR6X memory with 192-bit bus bandwidth, 21Gb/s per pin, and a throughput rating of 504GB/s.
The new items have a claimed power consumption level of 285 watts.
NVIDIA has priced this model at $899.
It will also be on sale in November.
The manufacturer claims that the performance level of both GeForce RTX 4080 is 2-4 higher than the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.

The box of huge GeForce RTX 4090 in Gaming OC variant by Gigabyte got on the photo

Another version of GeForce RTX 4090 graphics gas pedal has been published on the web.
This time we are talking about Gaming OC from Gigabyte.
The graphics card has a factory overclocked version.Image source: Twitter / @wnxod Unfortunately, the video card itself did not get into the frame.
The photo only captures its product packaging, which once again shows that NVIDIA has changed the font used to name models of GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards.Available information on the packaging also confirms that the GeForce RTX 4090 will get 24 GB of GDDR6X memory.
In Gigabyte Gaming OC design the gas pedal is equipped with a huge three-fan cooling system.
If the dimensions of new items are close to the model GeForce RTX 3090 Ti of the current generation in the same performance, the thickness of the new generation gas pedal is four slots expansion.
The GeForce RTX 4090 is rumored to be based on the AD102 GPU with 16 384 CUDA cores.
Details about it, as well as other models of GeForce RTX 4000 series gas pedals will be available on September 20.