Tuesday, December 22nd 2020
NVIDIA to Introduce an Architecture Named After Ada Lovelace, Hopper Delayed?
NVIDIA has launched its GeForce RTX 3000 series of graphics cards based on the Ampere architecture three months ago. However, we are already getting information about the next-generation that the company plans to introduce. In the past, the rumors made us believe that the architecture coming after Ampere is allegedly being called Hopper. Hopper architecture is supposed to bring multi-chip packaging technology and be introduced after Ampere. However, thanks to @kopite7kimi on Twitter, a reliable source of information, we have data that NVIDIA is reportedly working on a monolithic GPU architecture that the company internally refers to as "ADxxx" for its codenames.
The new monolithically-designed Lovelace architecture is going make a debut on the 5 nm semiconductor manufacturing process, a whole year earlier than Hopper. It is unknown which foundry will manufacture the GPUs, however, both of NVIDIA's partners, TSMC and Samsung, are capable of manufacturing it. The Hopper is expected to arrive sometime in 2023-2024 and utilize the MCM technology, while the Lovelace architecture will appear in 2021-2022. We are not sure if the Hopper architecture will be exclusive to data centers or extend to the gaming segment as well. The Ada Lovelace architecture is supposedly going to be a gaming GPU family. Ada Lovelace, a British mathematician, has appeared on NVIDIA's 2018 GTC t-shirt known as "Company of Heroes", so NVIDIA may have already been using the ADxxx codenames internally for a long time now.
Sources:
kopite7kimi, via VideoCardz
The new monolithically-designed Lovelace architecture is going make a debut on the 5 nm semiconductor manufacturing process, a whole year earlier than Hopper. It is unknown which foundry will manufacture the GPUs, however, both of NVIDIA's partners, TSMC and Samsung, are capable of manufacturing it. The Hopper is expected to arrive sometime in 2023-2024 and utilize the MCM technology, while the Lovelace architecture will appear in 2021-2022. We are not sure if the Hopper architecture will be exclusive to data centers or extend to the gaming segment as well. The Ada Lovelace architecture is supposedly going to be a gaming GPU family. Ada Lovelace, a British mathematician, has appeared on NVIDIA's 2018 GTC t-shirt known as "Company of Heroes", so NVIDIA may have already been using the ADxxx codenames internally for a long time now.
35 Comments on NVIDIA to Introduce an Architecture Named After Ada Lovelace, Hopper Delayed?
Not to mention that even a midrange GPU you'd buy now would easily triple your performance. I think nostalgia has clouded your view on reality a little bit. Not to mention the fact that current GPUs actually DO offer more than a perf uplift, they enable completely new lighting technology too.
But I understand that at some point you just 'switch off' as you realize its all more of the same. I sorta feel the same way, even with the RT that's in cards now. Yes, shiny eye candy... I suppose some sort of oversaturation of graphics occurs and it all starts looking samey.
Get 6-8% more performance from a 3090 for 50% more money?
Nah.
My three years till hopper theory, just got some wind behind its sales too.
They can even give it DDR3, it'll still sell.
Oh wait, Tesla is gonna get there, nevermind.
In that your examples aren't comparable, tech fails verses trying to write your own review aren't the same.
And yes you damn well can vote with your wallet.
But I agree companies are companies and any can mess up , I wouldn't reward those personally but then that's changeable and I wouldn't hold grudges for years , I would retain the memory though and I remember a hell of a lot more business shenanigans from intel, Nvidia and Apple then I have about AMD since the eighties anyway.
And you just can't get big chips with good yields out the door from the beginning. AMD sidestepped this problem for a while with their smaller chips. It remains to be seen what they'll do now, with RDNA2 returning them to the big chips arena.