Nvidia RTX 4000 GPUs rumored to be a ‘major refresh’ on 5nm in 2022

Nvidia RTX 4000 GPUs rumored to be a 'Major refresh' happening 5nm in 2022

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Nvidia has new 'Lovelace' graphics cards that are ascribable get in 2022 which will use TSMC's 5nm summons, a fresh rumor asserts.

And this time – we have, of course, heard this from the word of mouth before – the info comes purportedly direct from the supply chain.

The latest speculation is from DigiTimes, which is a slightly smasher-and-miss source, and so let's remain skeptical. The report was highlighted on Twitter by fruitful leaker Retired Engineer, and IT claims that the word from the factories in Taiwan which will manufacture the GPUs is that 'Lovelace' is indeed on 5nm American Samoa previously rumored, and will represent a 'John Roy Major freshen' for Nvidia (every bit potential).

"Nvidia's biennial GPU refresh advent in 2022, riding happening metaverse and gaming. Following H100, supported Hopper architecture, using TSMC's 5nm + CoWoS, aimed at datacenter/AI, gaming GPU RTX40 series, based on Adenosine deaminase Lovelace architecture, testament also tap TSMC's 5nm...."Nov 30, 2021

As noted, the Hopper GPUs are heavyweight cards for data center usage, and might go the MCM chiplet route, meaning multiple chips on the card, whereas the RTX 4000 products will supposedly stick with a monolithic design (a single GPU).

No other details are imparted away the DigiTimes clause, but previous rumors hold that the RTX 4090 could have 18,432 CUDA cores, and be armed with 24GB of GDDR6X VRAM and a 384-bit memory interface. It's expected to embody clocked at some 2.3GHz to 2.5GHz, and to be an passing powerful GPU – possibly in the order of 2.5x faster than the current RTX 3090.

Analysis: Gravely powerful and proportionately pricey without doubt

All the above, including the latest information from the supply chain revealed hither, should be taken with a solid total of salt, naturally. This new leak adds significant weight to the 5nm TSMC asseveration, course – although we were already fairly sure some that prospect – and we can take IT from all the previous spill around the RTX 4090 flagship that it's verisimilar to be seriously powerful. Which way, course, that the rest of the range wish follow broadly speaking in line with that.

The self-evident concern for such a powerful close-gen graphics plug-in, though, is the kind of price mark that this CUDA core-inebriated monster mightiness command (American Samoa if the RTX 3090 wasn't expensive enough as is). And as we've already heard before, it's not just about the demands information technology mightiness ready on your wallet, but also your PSU (which, if you need to upgrade the power supply, will mean more cash in on needing to equal stumped up).

Backing up the early pessimism roughly the potentially seriously steep power demands from 'Richard Lovelace' cards is the energizing bruit that the pepped-up RTX 3090 Te could rising its TDP to 450W (100W more than the current RTX 3090).

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