Nvidia debuts new high-end RTX 4090 GPU after previous generation gobbled up by crypto miners

The flagship RTX 4090 and slightly more affordable 4080 are part of the new generation of graphics cards from the company. The upgrade comes at an interesting time for PC users, who have been missing out on the graphics market for years, and now have a choice of their old or new cards.

The 4-series is a significant upgrade over the 3-series, which dominated the crypto mining scene and a few other computation-hungry applications and as a result was bought in bulk by bots and other shady operations. The price of the powerful cards was inflated as a result of this.

It was an opportunity forAMD to emphasize price and efficiency and the fact that you could purchase their cards. More people switched toAMD over the last two years because they were frustrated with the market and wanted to save a bit of power and money. I was a part of that group.

For the present, the most powerful ones out there will no doubt be the next-gen graphics cards from Nvidia, which is making a play for the whales. Nvidia tends to maintain the status of "fastest card, but at what cost" when it comes to its new cards.

In addition to increasing the number of cores, processors, shaders, and the necessary jump in performance seen in today's games,nvidia is pushing its new "Ada Lovelace" architecture. Ray tracing for lighting and Deep Learning Super Sampling are two processes that improve image quality.

The capabilities are crowed about here. A new version of the classic first-person puzzler Portal will be free to anyone who has it, thanks to a partnership between Valve and Nvidia. It looks good.

The new GPUs should be able to perform both graphics operations and pure neural network stuff faster and better with the help of the tensor cores.

The graphics card used to be a tool for keeping your games running at high frames per second, but now it's used for processing powerhouses for computation-intensive tasks.

The idea of running a modern text-to-image generator or a local instance of something like GPT-3 is attractive to a lot of people and will cost a lot of money. Beginning in November, the cards will be available.