NVIDIA’s upcoming next-generation Adaa Lovelace GPUs will be a hard hitter in the market and will be a brand new architecture built on TSMC’s 5nm process.
This latest update is a pretty huge one and if this news is true then the Ada Lovelace will be epic. The leaker of this information is Kopite who has pretty much leaked all the details of the Turing and Ampere architectures and has historically been extremely accurate. So this leak holds pretty high value in the market.
The same leaker has already confirmed previously that the Ada Lovelace architecture will be built on the 5nm process, however, until now it was assumed to be a Samsung node. This was because the fact NVIDIA has accurately predicted that the demand for chips would soon be hitting TSMC hard as it had to share resources with Apple and AMD.
however, if this leak is indeed true and NVIDIA is going back to TSMC then this means that the South Korean tech giant has just recently lost a huge client. Even if they build the high-end chips on TSMC and keep the low end at Samsung it still means that NVIDIA has lost faith in Samsung’s ability to keep pace with the bleeding edge nodes.
there are also reports that NVIDIA’s Ada Lovelace GPU will be arriving sooner than expected, however, for now, the concrete details are un-available. Rumours have put the arrival of Ada Lovelace GPUs between Q2 2022 and Q4 2022, if the recent reports are true, then we can expect that the GPUs might come out in Q2 2022.
NVIDIA CUDA GPU (RUMORED) Preliminary:
| GPU | TU102 | GA102 | AD102 |
| Architecture | Turing | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
| Process | TSMC 12nm NFF | Samsung 8nm | 5nm |
| Graphics Processing Clusters (GPC) | 6 | 7 | 12 |
| Texture Processing Clusters (TPC) | 36 | 42 | 72 |
| Streaming Multiprocessors (SM) | 72 | 84 | 144 |
| CUDA Cores | 4608 | 10752 | 18432 |
| Theoretical TFLOPs | 16.1 | 37.6 | ~80 TFLOPs? |
| Flagship SKU | RTX 2080 Ti | RTX 3090 | RTX 4090? |
| TGP | 250W | 350W | 400-500W |
| Release | Sep. 2018 | Sept. 20 | 2022 (TBC) |
