NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series 'Ada Lovelace' GPUs Mass Production Rumored To Commence In Mid 2022

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards based on the Ada Lovelace GPU architecture are rumored to enter mass production past mid of 2022. The latest rumor comes from Greymon55, detailing the production and launch timeframe of NVIDIA'southward next-generation GPUs.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Graphics Cards With Ada Lovelace GPUs Enter Mass Production In Mid 2022, Alleges Rumor

In his latest tweet, the leaker states that NVIDIA'southward AD102 GPU which is likely to be the flagship chip within the Ada Lovelace lineup will exist taping out either later this year or in early 2022. The GPU volition then enter qualification sampling in Q2 2022 followed by mass production by mid of 2022. This is in line with what previous rumors have stated.

As for mass production, at least after the middle of next yr.

— Greymon55 (@greymon55) August xiv, 2021

The NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPUs will power the side by side-generation GeForce RTX twoscore graphics cards that will go head-on with AMD's RDNA 3 based Radeon RX 7000 serial graphics cards. In that location's still some speculation regarding the use of MCM by NVIDIA. The Hopper GPU, which is primarily aimed at the Datacenter & AI segment, is allegedly taping out shortly and volition feature an MCM compages. NVIDIA won't be using an MCM design on its Ada Lovelace GPUs and so they will go along the traditional monolithic design.

AMD on the other hand is going on lath with offering both MCM and Monolithic chips in its RDNA 3 and CDNA 2 families. The CDNA 2 GPUs will be MCM only while RDNA 3 will feature a mix of MCM and monolithic design every bit detailed here. It isn't confirmed which process node each company will be relying on but based on speculation, AMD'south RDNA iii & CDNA 2 family is going to be a mix of 6nm & 5nm nodes while NVIDIA is expected to utilize TSMC'south 5nm process node for its Ada Lovelace GPUs though information technology is not confirmed if those will be fabricated on the N5 or N5P node. Intel, on the other hand, may also rely on an external fab for its ain ARC Alchemist lineup of GPUs which enter mass product later this twelvemonth.

Nosotros have previously heard rumors that NVIDIA'southward Ada Lovelace GPU-powered GeForce RTX xl series is expected to bring the aforementioned leap (performance/efficiency) as we saw from Maxwell to Pascal only the launch will be pushed to late 2022 or Q1 2023.

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	seven	12
Texture Processing Clusters (TPC)	36	42	72
Streaming Multiprocessors (SM)	72	84	144
CUDA Cores	4608	10752	18432
Theoretical TFLOPs	16.one	37.half dozen	~90 TFLOPs?
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR6X	GDDR6X
Retentiveness Bus	384-bit	384-fleck	384-bit
Memory Capacity	11 GB (2080 Ti)	24 GB (3090)	24 GB (4090?)
Flagship SKU	RTX 2080 Ti	RTX 3090	RTX 4090?
TGP	250W	350W	450-650W?
Release	Sep. 2018	Sept. xx	2022 (TBC)

We accept likewise previously heard about a few specifications regarding the Ada Lovelace GPUs. It was rumored that the flagship GPU, the AD102, would pack up to 144 SM units for a full of 9216 cores or as NVIDIA's new algorithm states it, 18,432 CUDA cores. The successor to the RTX 3090 featuring such a GPU could characteristic effectually 2-ii.5x the functioning uplift though AMD's RDNA 3, once again, is expected to deliver a 3x operation uplift with the Navi 31 MCD GPU which would power their next-gen flagship graphics card.

Notwithstanding, residue be assured that nosotros will non see any next-gen GPU or graphics card till the stop of 2022. NVIDIA has an intermediate RTX 30 'SUPER' refresh planned before it moves to adjacent-gen parts only aside from that, AMD and NVIDIA will exist focusing on developing their side by side-gen chips for the rest of 2022 with a launch focused by twelvemonth's cease.

Which next-generation GPUs are yous looking forward to the near?