GeForce RTX 40 series with NVIDIA Lovelace GPUs again rumored to use TSMC N5 process

Published: Aug 28th 2021, 19:06 GMT   Comments

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NVIDIA next-gen GeForce RTX 40 series to use TSMC N5 process instead of Samsung

Industry insider provides confirmation on NVIDIA Lovelace architecture process architecture.

Kopite7kimi is a leaker who correctly predicted almost the whole NVIDIA Ampere lineup many months in advance. Naturally, each word the user shares on Twitter is meticulously analyzed. The same applies to his recent NVIDIA leaks.

The user now reaffirms the rumors from July, when Greymon55 (another leaker although better known for AMD content) revealed that NVIDIA is planning to use TSMC N5 process technology for their next-gen gaming architecture known as Ada Lovelace. Now both leakers now agree that NVIDIA Lovelace is using TSMC rather than Samsung.

The same leaker revealed that Lovelace GPUs will actually a bit sooner than previously expected, although no dates are given it is rumored to launch by the end of next year. NVIDIA may want to keep its 2-year cadence of new gaming GPUs, which would be around September 2022.

Unlike AMD, NVIDIA is not planning to use a multi-chip-module/chiplet design for its upcoming series. Instead, NVIDIA will keep Lovelace monolithic, at least the flagship GPU known as AD102 is. So far there hasn’t been much information on any other Lovelace GPUs such as AD104 or AD106.

The rumored specifications of NVIDIA AD102 GPU equip it with 18432 CUDA cores and performance nearly twice as high as GA102. The AD102 would be a large 600mm² die consuming 400-450W using a smaller and more efficient node.

Next-gen Flagship GPU Comparison
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NVIDIA AD102
AMD NAVI 31
Fabrication NodeTSMC 5nmTSMC 5nm + 6nm
ArchitectureNVIDIA Ada LovelaceAMD RDNA3
GPU PackageMonolithicMulti-Chip-Module (MCM)
Estimated GPU Size~600mm²~800mm² (or more)
Graphics Dies12
GPU Mega Clusters12 Graphics Processing Clusters (GPC)6 Shader Engines
GPU Super Clusters72 Texture Processing Clusters (TPC)60 RDNA Workgroups (WGP)
GPU Clusters144 Streaming Multiprocessors (SM)
GPU FP32 Cores18432 CUDA Cores15360 Stream Processors
GPU Clock~ 2.2 GHz?
Memory & BusGDDR6X 384-bitGDDR6 256-bit
Large L3 Cache?256-512MB Infinity Cache
Estimated Power Consumption~ 420-450 watts~ 450-480 watts
Release DateExpected Q4 2022Expected 2H 2022
Rumored Flagship SKUGeForce RTX 4090Radeon RX 7900XT
Rumored Performance2x GA1022.5x NAVI 21
Based on rumors

Source: @kopite7kimi via Wccftech




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