NVIDIA Confirms GeForce "Ada" Launch tied to "Project Beyond," Drops a Sneaky Phone Number

[btarunr]

NVIDIA has been dropping a trail of breadcrumbs in its GeForce twitter feed over the past week surrounding "Project Beyond," which from the get go was interpreted as its debut of the GeForce RTX 40-series, based on the "Ada" graphics architecture (named after Ada Lovelace, credited with being the mother of computer programming). In its latest tweet, the company posted a picture of the famous "Diagram for the computation by the Engine," believed to be a computer program she wrote for the Charles Babbage number engine (an analog computer from the early 19th century).

The teaser video shows a copy of Lovelace's chart lying on a modern PC desk. One of the two monitors has a sticky note with a phone number scribbled on it—(208)-629-7538. Punters on social media decoded this not to be a random phone number, but a well-crafted hint about the vital specs of the top GeForce RTX 4090. "208" could denote 2.08 times the performance (or at least FP32 compute throughput) of the RTX 3090 "Ampere." 629 could be the die-size in mm², and 7538 could mean 75.38 billion transistors (the rumored transistor count of the 5 nm "AD102" silicon on which the RTX 4090 is based).



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[oxrufiioxo]

Nice, we can finally put the rumors to rest and see if this really is 2x the 3090.

 

[Lycanwolfen]

Well some good news for gamers anyway. Etherum has finally merged too proof of stake work. Meaning GPU mining is no more for etherum. This should drive down the price of video cards to maybe normal levels again.

 

[dj-electric]

Man.. I can't wait for the reaction of people after the event. They don't know...

 

[R0H1T]

Nice, we can finally put the rumors to rest and see if this really is 2x the 3090.

Unless it's well over 500W TDP, or even 600W that's a near impossibility given they'll still be using GDDR6x & not something like HBM.

 

[Valantar]

Man, how I hate this type of marketing. Or, I guess, how people go for it. The idea of people putting hours of work into solving all kinds of obscure puzzles just to be able to be marketed to is so goddamn perverse I don't know what to do with myself.

 

[64K]

I would be surprised if the 4090 really is twice as fast as the 3090 but we will see when reviews come out. It's not too much longer now.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Unless it's well over 500W TDP, or even 600W that's a near impossibility given they'll still be using GDDR6x & not something like HBM.

I'm seeing leaks that there is a 450w bios for people who have older psu and a 660w bios. So it having a ridiculous TDP isn't out of the question I guess. Given it's size vs the 3090 (cuda cores) and the massively higher clocks rumored I don't think it's impossible but it probably will only be at 4k with RT. Which I primarily game at 4k so I guess is relevant to me.

 

[Hxx]

"2.08 times the performance"
or it could mean 2.08 times the price of a 3090 . Oh sneaky nvidia!

 

[oxrufiioxo]

"2.08 times the performance"
or it could mean 2.08 times the price of a 3090 . Oh sneaky nvidia!

I think the pricing is what will be most interesting... I'm curious how Nvidia thinks they can price it in the current market.... The 2080ti pretty much kept it's ridiculous price it's entire life and the OG 3090 got up to 3k+ in a terrible market but the 3090ti dropped like a rock in pricing.

 

[Hxx]

I would be surprised if the 4090 really is twice as fast as the 3090 but we will see when reviews come out. It's not too much longer now.

its not too unrealistic tbh based on prior releases. A 1080ti was almost twice as fast as a 1070 and a 1070 was almost just as fast as a 980ti from the previous gen. So i can see a 4070 being almost as fast as a 3090ti/nonti and then a 4090 being almost twice as fast likely not overall but at least in some titles. Thats probably what nvidia is hinting at anyway. They will go on stage and show that ONE game where their card is twice as fast and thats it

 

[natr0n]

Man, how I hate this type of marketing. Or, I guess, how people go for it. The idea of people putting hours of work into solving all kinds of obscure puzzles just to be able to be marketed to is so goddamn perverse I don't know what to do with myself.

I'm not that found of it, but I dont mind it. There are people who live for riddles and shit like that which is good for people who cant be bothered so that's cool for us.

 

[ModEl4]

Every publication that I saw is saying that 208 means 2.08X the performance of GA102 but it doesn't make sense for me, the other numbers are not a product of comparison, they just inform about AD102 specs.
For me it's 2.08TB/sec effective bandwidth with 96MB cache+GDDR6X or it's just FP16 or tensor FP32 Tflops (You heard it here first lol)

 

[Space Lynx]

Man.. I can't wait for the reaction of people after the event. They don't know...

What do you means? *grabs popcorn*

good news for gamers or bad news?

 

[Jeager]

Usual MSRPx2.08 ez peasy

 

[dont whant to set it"']

Why does this nVidia campaign reads and or sounds like what a scammer would type and or say?
It cannot be because nVidia might of sayd to the "bust open" Cernobyl NPP reactor no.4 : "hold my beer!" , can it?

 

[aciDev]

Which I primarily game at 4k so I guess is relevant to me.

In 4K Heat Wave Simulator is going to be gorgeous.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

In 4K Heat Wave Simulator is going to be gorgeous.

Fortunately I can afford AC.

I agree though these TDP are getting out of control.

 

[thegnome]

Is it me or is that a miner program running on the taskbar..? Or am I just seeing/remembering it wrong?

 

[Valantar]

I'm not that found of it, but I dont mind it. There are people who live for riddles and shit like that which is good for people who cant be bothered so that's cool for us.

Well, sure. But there are plenty of puzzles in the world - most of which don't have the explicit goal of letting a company market their products to you. Of course those also lack the bragging rights of being the first to receive said marketing, but ... yeah, is that really something to brag about?

 

[ModEl4]

if each RT core can do 6 ray traversals per clock per RT/SM instead of 1 that Turing could and the SM/RT is 144 and the clock 2.4GHz it gives 208 Gigarays.
But 6 ray traversals per RT core is too excessive I think.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

I wonder how many people actually called the number. I remember something of this sort years ago, IDK if it was in a game or hardware hype that you got something if you solved the clues and called the number. It was about 20 years ago.

 

[dyonoctis]

Is it me or is that a miner program running on the taskbar..? Or am I just seeing/remembering it wrong?

It's discord, steam, Geforce experience, Nvidia braodcast, and the control panel. ETH mining is dead

 

[demirael]

Is it me or is that a miner program running on the taskbar..? Or am I just seeing/remembering it wrong?

It *might* be, but ETH PoW shut down, causing tons of hash rate move to other coins, causing their difficulty to peak, leading to worse returns. Last I checked basically nothing could be mined at a profit assuming you actually pay for electricity. Things may change but right now roughly all mining is speculative.

 

[dj-electric]

What do you means? *grabs popcorn*

good news for gamers or bad news?

Tough question. I guess it goes both ways. I don't want green ninjas to meet me in a dark corner, but the good news is that we're only a few days away.
Just a bit less than three days left. now is the 16th, its at the 20th.