NVIDIA Announces the RTX 40 Series

NVIDIA announced the GeForce RTX 40 series in September 2022 using its Ada Lovelace architecture. The RTX 4090 and 4080 focused on much higher ray-tracing and AI performance while moving to TSMC’s 4N manufacturing process.

Ada added third-generation RT Cores and fourth-generation Tensor Cores. NVIDIA also introduced DLSS 3 Frame Generation, which used an optical-flow accelerator and neural network to synthesize additional frames between traditionally rendered ones.

Generated frames can raise displayed frame rate without reducing the CPU work needed to simulate the game, so latency and visual artifacts became important considerations. The feature showed how GPU performance increasingly came from combining conventional rendering with learned reconstruction rather than rendering every displayed pixel and frame directly.