The following-gen flagship GPU from NVIDIA is rumored to pack in additional than 75 billion transistors. A sometimes dependable tech Twitter supply pitched a multiple-choice survey to followers earlier within the yr and was immediately happy to report that the general public had been ‘proper’, selecting 70-80B because the almost definitely transistor depend for AD102.
For the uninitiated, the AD102 GPU from NVIDIA is the flagship Ada Lovelace chip which is predicted for use to create the
GeForce RTX 4090 for customers, and presumably different high-end fashions later down the road—e.g. RTX 4080 Ti and RTX 4090 Ti. There have been rumors that NVIDIA goes to go huge with its shopper AD102, so this technology it is going to be fairly a bit nearer to the server/enterprise mannequin (
Hopper H100) than with the earlier Ampere technology.
To place the rumored transistor depend of the AD102 into some perspective, allow us to take a look at Ada Lovelace vs Ampere numbers. In line with the newest experiences, the chip going into the RTX 4090, the AD102 GPU, has 75 billion transistors in a 611mm2 die manufactured by TSMC on its N5 course of. The GPU behind the prevailing RTX 3090, the GA102 GPU, has 28.3 billion transistors in a 628mm2 die manufactured by Samsung on its 8nm course of.
If the Tweet shared by
Kopite7kimi is appropriate, the brand new Ada Lovelace GPU has 2.65X extra transistors than the Ampere predecessor however due to TSMC’s N5 course of it has a smaller bodily die. The additional transistors will likely be used for a considerably boosted mixture of conventional 3D accelerator (CUDA) cores, in addition to ray tracing (RT) and AI acceleration (Tensor) cores. Cache sizes are additionally anticipated to be bigger than ever, and we are able to count on different enhancements to video acceleration and processing {hardware}.
NVIDIA has scheduled its
Challenge Past particular broadcast to kick off the GTC 2022 occasion per week from immediately. It’s extensively anticipated that the GeForce RTX 40 sequence will grow to be official at this occasion, beginning with the RTX 4090 (powered by AD102). Thus, we should always get some strong tech specs shared by NVIDIA through the course of GTC, maybe some particulars will likely be outlined by CEO Jensen Huang in his keynote instantly after the particular broadcast (timed for 8am PT on Sept 20).
Within the meantime, we advocate you take a look at our latest GeForce RTX 4090 themed articles about pricing, customized designs from Gigabyte, and potential efficiency.
