The rumors have been chasings each other for months now,
between finalized design, a steeper generational leap than expected and a
semiconductor crisis that still makes it impossible to buy video cards.
While we are still struggling to find an RTX Series 30, we
are already starting to talk about Lovelace and Hopper , these are the names to
keep in mind for the next generation. But what do we really knows about the RTX
4000 Series?
Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper
There are many rumors and few officialities but we can begin
to get an idea of what the future holds. A sensational crossroads for the next
generation, still hovering right between the two architectures.
On the one hand we find Lovelace with the AD102 chip , on
the other hand Hopper and the GH202 GPU, but let's proceed in order, just like
the two scientists and mathematicians honored by NVIDIA would do.
As early as May, kopite , a true authority on the NVIDIA
front, revealed some of the information in his possession. Confident of the
5-nanometer production process , there are many question marks in his posts,
starting with the entire strategy of the green team. Many of NVIDIA's next
moves, according to kopite, will be decided in function of the historical rival
AMD and the performance of the RDNA3 cards.
The choice, if Lovelace's performance were not sufficiently
up to par, would fall on the GH202 chip. This chip, according to the leaker,
should provide more than double the Cuda Cores of the 30 series and the entire
Hopper project should lead to unprecedented energy efficiency , with
performance even tripled compared to the best Ampere solutions.
Some certainties and a future yet to be written
In recent days, the tweets of Greymon , one of the most
reliable informants on the square, have also made a lot of talk . The leaker
said he is 100% sure that Ada Lovelace will be the name of the next generation
architecture .
The project would have already been finalized and the rumors
about the NVIDIA RTX 4000 should be considered final. In particulars, there has
been a lot of discussion about the AD102 chip, the next high-end gaming
solution that at this point could have 18432 CUDA cores and over 66
single-precision teraflops. As for production, the 5-nanometer production
process is now confirmed, with the creation of the chips entrusted to TSMC .
The unknowns are currently still many. Among other rumors,
there are also those who, like the YouTube channel Moore's law is dead , argue
that Ada Lovelace could be part of the Orin project and therefore refer not
only to next generation video cards but also and above all toSoC for autonomous
driving , despite the Orin being a project currently based on Ampere.
A veritable volcano of rumors, which has questioned even the
hypotheses of kopite , arguing that NVIDIA's strategy could be much simpler
than expected . In the event of a particularly sensational launch by AMD,
according to the youtuber, NVIDIA could simply offer Lovelace-based video cards
at the lowest possible price.
What everyone seem to agree on is the launch date instead.
The appointment with the nvidia 40 series seems to have already been set for
the end of 2022, two years after the launch of the 30 series with ampere
architecture.
Now it's your turn: what do you think of the next generation
of NVIDIA? Will it once again be a revolution or is a period of transition
ahead of us?
