Some leaked information about the upcoming Nvidia RTX 4000 series of graphics cards could suggest the flagship card will have over 80% more CUDA cores than the flagship RTX 3090. While that wouldn't necessarily equate to a near-doubling in performance on its own, rumors of higher clock speeds, much higher power demands, and a shrunk process could mean Nvidia's next generation makes RTX 3000 cards look pedestrian in comparison.
The next-generation of GPUs under the Lovelace banner include the codenamed AD102, AD103, AD104, AD106, AD107, and AD10B GPUs. The first five of those will be targeted at desktop cards, and will have various paired down versions for more modest cards, while the latter is for mobile exclusively. This latest leak suggests that the high-end AD102 GPu will have a total of 18,432 CUDA cores, 96MB of L2 cache, and a massive 384-bit memory bus.
The step down from there will be pretty huge, but it does raise the bar significantly over its predecessor, still. The AD103 will have 10752 CUDA cores, an increase of around 40% over the current RTX GPUs. AD104 will have 7680, a 25% bump, and the lower end GPUs will have increases of around 20% in core counts.
All of this means the next-gen cards will be big and powerful, but recent reports suggest they'll also be power hungry. The flagship cards could apparently pull as mucha s 850W from your PSU, making them only really suitable to the most insane of gaming PCs, in houses with air conditioning. Otherwise you're effectively running a space heater next to you. It's going to get hot.