(Hardware) Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 series - everything we know so far

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With hype building for the next generation of Nvidia GeForce GPUs, RTX 4000 series rumors speculation certainly has momentum behind it. At a time when the best graphics cards for gaming have been incredibly challenging to get your hands on, hopes are high for the Ampere successor to deliver now we appear to be on the other side of the pandemic.   From all we're able to discern about the RTX 40 series, it's looking like the upcoming GeForce generation will be built on Lovelace architecture, continuing the naming conventions set by both Turing (RTX 20 series) and Ampere (RTX 30 series). Below we're bringing you everything we know about possible RTX 40 specifications, potential release windows, and what to expect from Nvidia's latest GPU line.  What could the RTX 40 Series release date be? No official RTX 40 series release date has been announced or uncovered as of yet. However, given the fact that the RTX 30 series was launched in September, we're anticipating a similar time frame for its successor - September 2022. This is consistent with the launch window of the RTX 20 series, which dropped in September 2018, roughly two years before Ampere debuted.   The first of the RTX 30 series to be released after the announcement was the RTX 3080, so it stands to reason that the RTX 4080 could lead the charge out of the gate, with both stronger (RTX 4090) and weaker models (RTX 4060, RTX 4070) to follow afterward. With Ampere, the RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti followed later; the former launched in October and the latter in December of the same year.  There has been a two-year time gap between Nvidia GeForce graphics card generations ever since the days of the GTX 600 series in 2012, with every successor line arriving in sequence with this pattern (GTX 900 series in 2014, GTX 1000 series in 2016, RTX 20 series in 2018, RTX 30 series in 2020).