Plus all the basic price and release date deets, if youre just after those.

Not EVGA, mind, who arequitting the graphics card business entirely, citing uncooperative practices on Nvidias part.

The RTX 4080 16GB, meanwhile, will release on November 16th.

A render of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card, with its Founders Edition design.

The most likely outcome?

The RTX 4090 and RTX 4080s will work in the PCIe 3.0 slots of older mobos, too.

I dont think I can explain this without getting a bit dorky, but bear with me.

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Kind of like howSSDsare faster when reading data thats stored sequentially.

The RTX 40 series, however, can use a technique called Shader Execution Reordering.

RTX 40 GPUs will also have AV1 encoding capabilities as standard.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holding up a GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition.

So much for that advantage.

What is RTX Remix, and what does it have to do with the RTX 40 series?

The RTX 4090/RTX 4080 launch involved a lot of Nvidia showing off its new RTX Remix app.

A render of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card.

and automatically give them an appropriate, more detailed roughness or shininess.

Where, then, does the RTX 40 series specifically come in?

A comparison image showing Microsoft Flight Simulator at native res vs. with Nvidia DLSS 3.

A collage showing the initial games to support Nvidia DLSS 3.

A bar chart showing average FPS performance for various games running at 4K, on the RTX 4090 and either at native resolution or with DLSS 3 and its frame generation feature.

A diagram showing how Nvidia’s Shader Execution Reordering on RTX 40 series GPUs.

A comparison image of the original Portal next to Portal with RTX, made in RTX Remix.

A comparison image showing Morrowind next to its RTX Remix mod.