According to DigiTimes, NVIDIA’s 3nm process node based next-generation GPUs may not be available anytime soon. The tech publication cited by it claims that NVIDIA is likely to delay the release of its 3nm GPUs until 2025. According to reports, the slowing PC market and global economic tensions are to blame for this pushback.
Due to their ongoing transition to their brand-new Ada Lovelace architecture, NVIDIA won’t be releasing any new GeForce GPUs this year or possibly even the following. In the upcoming month, the GPU manufacturer will introduce its mainstream products, and in the future, we can anticipate minor updates like the RTX 4090 Ti and RTX 4080 Ti. At CES 2024, the laptop market may also receive a refresh.
However, it appears that the company is stuck with a large amount of inventory and will hold off on producing many gaming GPUs until demand picks up. Consumers are no longer as willing to purchase mainstream cards as they were last generation due to recent price increases on GeForce RTX GPUs per segment. It is also difficult due to the existing stock of older GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs because those cards are more affordable and offer better value.
NVIDIA did not present a new roadmap or any plans to introduce a completely new GPU at GTC 2023 this year.
The company revealed brand-new Hopper products as well as the volume shipping of its 4N powered Data Centre chips to supercomputers, HPC clients, and the AI market. Given the healthy demand for Hopper, which is 10–20 times more expensive than the typical consumer GPU, the business will probably concentrate its efforts on making Hopper and supplying it to customers before switching to a new GPU architecture.
Having said that, NVIDIA’s next-generation GPUs are already well under way. One of the many potential architecture codenames for the upcoming chips is known to be Blackwell. The GPU will probably be unveiled at the GTC of the following year, but it won’t go into production until late 2024 or even early 2025, similar to Hopper, which saw its first volume shipments several quarters after its initial announcement. Blackwell GPUs may not make use of the 3nm process node and will have a monolithic design, claims leaker Kopite7kimi.
As a result, there is a chance that Blackwell could debut on TSMC’s 4nm design, which would still be an improvement over the TSMC 4N, a 5nm node optimised for production. The generation that follows Blackwell may use a 3nm or sub-3nm process from TSMC.
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