How the RTX 4090 and 4080 Compare to the RTX 3090 Ti and 3080 Ti - IGN - IGN

Using the new Ada Lovelace graphical architecture, the RTX 40-series will serve as a successor to the RTX 30-series, which debuted back in 2020.

The RTX 30-series is built on Nvidia’s Ampere graphical architecture, which uses Samsung’s 8nm technology.

The RTX 40-series meanwhile is built on the new Ada Lovelace architecture, which uses TSMC’s 4nm N4 technology.

The Ampere architecture is the second generation of RTX, which uses third-generation Tensor and second-generation RT cores.

The Ada Lovelace architecture, named after the mathematician and writer, is the third generation of RTX, using fourth-gen Tensor cores and third-gen RT cores.