Monday, December 28th 2020
NVIDIA's Next-Gen Big GPU AD102 Features 18,432 Shaders
The rumor mill has begun grinding with details about NVIDIA's next-gen graphics processors based on the "Lovelace" architecture, with Kopite7kimi (a reliable source with NVIDIA leaks) predicting a 71% increase in shader units for the "AD102" GPU that succeeds the "GA102," with 12 GPCs holding 6 TPCs (12 SMs), each. 3DCenter.org extrapolates on this to predict a CUDA core count of 18.432 spread across 144 streaming multiprocessors, which at a theoretical 1.80 GHz core clock could put out an FP32 compute throughput of around 66 TFLOP/s.
The timing of this leak is interesting, as it's only 3 months into the market cycle of "Ampere." NVIDIA appears unsettled with AMD RDNA2 being competitive with "Ampere" at the enthusiast segment, and is probably bringing in its successor, "Lovelace" (after Ada Lovelace), out sooner than expected. Its previous generation "Turing" architecture saw market presence for close to two years. "Lovelace" could leverage the 5 nm silicon fabrication process and its significantly higher transistor density, to step up performance.
Sources:
Kopite7kimi (Twitter), 3DCenter.org (Twitter), VideoCardz
The timing of this leak is interesting, as it's only 3 months into the market cycle of "Ampere." NVIDIA appears unsettled with AMD RDNA2 being competitive with "Ampere" at the enthusiast segment, and is probably bringing in its successor, "Lovelace" (after Ada Lovelace), out sooner than expected. Its previous generation "Turing" architecture saw market presence for close to two years. "Lovelace" could leverage the 5 nm silicon fabrication process and its significantly higher transistor density, to step up performance.
43 Comments on NVIDIA's Next-Gen Big GPU AD102 Features 18,432 Shaders
If the market, is so much distorced that you can see gpus on sell at double their msrp thing are not good for nvidia\ amd for at least 2 reasons
1) those price are for the final customer, due to scalping. a custom gpu selled at the customer at msrp or double for nvidia amd is the same.
2) if the number ar so much few that such a price distortion may happen, i can bet what ever you want that amd nvidia are doing whatever they can to maximise production and reach beak even. I think that after almost 3 month from presentation they arent even near to that
Plus Ampere cards just started selling, barely 2 months ago and they aren't even in stock, they haven't even released mid or low tier cards yet. So any new generation would wait for a good year at the least!
What's unsettling is not that AMD's cards are doing good (you still cant buy either), but that the only people who need the Next Gen cards are those strictly playing true 4k 120hz+ (or higher)with an additional monitor. The Green+Red team will achieve 100+ FPS in 1440P with high graphics settings and not even struggle. Where is the artificial demand? that is what we should be afraid of.