The world of graphics cards is such that one new generation chases another... sometimes a little early?
For the time being, these are just rumours, and NVIDIA has yet to publish a release date or even a launch window for its next generation of graphics cards. However, the American company's roadmap leaves little room for doubt. What's more, NVIDIA boss Jensen Huang gave us some good clues when - last week - he unveiled the B200 and GB200 GPUs of the future professional range based on the Blackwell architecture. The planets therefore seem to be lining up nicely for a new generation of GeForce graphics cards - the RTX 50 series - to be launched next autumn.
GeForce RTX 40 series in abundance... for how long? © NVIDIA
But it's not to talk about these future GeForce RTX 50 series that we're publishing this news. Well, not directly. Indeed, while AMD doesn't seem to want to wage a fierce battle on this future generation - it's been said that the Radeon RX 8000 could be content with the entry/mid-range - the main competitors of the GeForce RTX 50 series could well be... the GeForce RTX 40 series. Yes, the very ones that NVIDIA is currently distributing and for which SUPER versions were released a few weeks ago.
The question for NVIDIA is therefore to avoid a direct confrontation between the two generations, and while this is nothing new - it's more or less the case with every new architecture - it's the timing that's interesting. Indeed, the South Korean site QuasarZone explains that its contacts close to the main players in the graphics card market have already received information from NVIDIA: deliveries of GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs are set to drop off as early as the next quarter, so even before the start of summer. Our colleague does not mention a shortage in the near future, but NVIDIA seems more determined than ever to make a rapid transition.
