Things are hotting up on the graphics card front. With AMD looking to launch its RDNA 3 this October at the earliest, Nvidia has a vested interest in making sure it can outshine the competition with its Ada Lovelace. It looks as though the release windows for each are just cresting over the horizon, with just a few months left in this generation. However, it's possible that team green's upcoming offerings may not be ready for the previously speculated launch dates, as the company seems to have delayed the RTX 40-series.

In a recent report from Videocardz, it looks as though there's been some updates to when Nvidia will be getting its next-gen GPUs onto the shelves. Citing its own sources, the report says that the tech giant has pushed back the upcoming RTX cards by a month, with the 4090 supposedly coming out in September now. That being the case, the RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 are now due in October and November, respectively. This doesn't appear to have been officially confirmed, but it's possible that team green will want to sell as many RTX 30 cards as it can before the next generation arrives.

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Nvidia's RTX 4090 was rumored to be coming in August, with the aforementioned additional models following in subsequent months. One month is arguably not a large amount of time to wait, and it could give the company more time to make adjustments, but some will no doubt be disappointed. However, the report does go on to say that the delay will unlikely have any effect on a possible announcement. Given these new dates, it's possible that Nvidia and AMD could begin unleashing their next-gen hardware at around the same time.

An image showing some floating AMD and Nvidia graphics cards on a green background.

At least in this case, if a delay is happening, things could be so much worse. Intel has yet to release its Arc desktop GPU, with the latest speculations saying it could arrive as late as Q4 of this year. It was hoped that team blue would have launched it by now, given that it was allegedly due in Q1, so it looks as though Intel is being left behind.

That aside, the next generation of GPU technology is fast-approaching, even if Nvidia has pushed dates back a bit. On top of that, graphics cards have continued to fall in price, especially in Europe, possibly owning to less demand. That's good news for anyone who's been waiting to purchase a new card this generation, so hopefully the future will start to look a bit brighter.

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Source: Videocardz