The RTX 4070 (Ada Lovelace) turns three years old and still holds up remarkably well, largely thanks to DLSS 4.5 bringing transformer-based Super Resolution and Multi Frame Generation to existing hardware. The author argues that the RTX 40-series represents a rare sweet spot where raw rasterization performance remains competitive, the full DLSS software stack runs natively, and the Blackwell (RTX 50-series) upgrade offers diminishing returns. Ada Lovelace is compared to the Pascal era — a generation so well-rounded that successors struggle to justify the cost. The piece concludes that while this is great for consumers, it signals a slowdown in meaningful GPU innovation.
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Ada Lovelace might be the Pascal series of the 2020sDLSS 4.5 was the final piece, and the 40-series was ready for itFor the first time in the history of consumer graphics...213 Impressions