NVIDIA details AD102 GPU, up to 18432 CUDA cores, 76.3B transistors and 608 mm²

Published: Sep 20th 2022, 19:41 GMT   Comments

NVIDIA AD102 GPU has 76.3B transistors

The most transistor-packed consumer GPU yet.

Not everything was revealed by NVIDIA today, but luckily for us, some board partners were quick to share the missing details.

Today, NVIDIA introduced its Ada Lovelace architecture for next-gen gaming, workstation and server GPUs. This architecture is based on custom TSMC 4N process and brings higher raster, raytracing and AI-accelerated computing over Ampere.

The AD102 GPU has 76.3 billion transistors and 608.4 mm². This means that the transistor density of 125.5 million per mm² is 2.78x higher than GA102 “Ampere” GPU manufactured by Samsung using 8N node. Those details were confirmed by PNY for RTX 6000 Ada workstation graphics card.

NVIDIA RTX 6000 ADA Specs, Source: PNY

NVIDIA Ada features Shader Execution Reordering (SER) which supposedly makes raster operations faster, providing up to 25% better gaming performance. Furthermore, Ada features next-generation RT Core (Gen3) and Tensor cores (Gen4). The latter delivers up to 1400 TFLOPS, 4,375 times more than Ampere’s 3rd generation cores.

The AD102 GPU will not be used by RTX 4090 gaming card, RTX 6000 ADA workstation and L40 Server GPU. With 2048 CUDA core remaining budget, it is very likely that NVIDIA will introduce an even faster gaming card later.

NVIDIA Flagship Gaming GPUs
VideoCardz.comAD102GA102TU102GV100GP102
Launch Year20222020201820172017
ArchitectureAda LovelaceAmpereTuringVoltaPascal
NodeTSMC 4NSAMSUNG 8NTSMC 12nmTSMC 12nmTSMC 16nm
Die Size608 mm²628 mm²754 mm²815 mm²471 mm²
Transistors76.3B28.3B18.6B21.1B12.0B
Trans. Density125.5M TRAN/mm245.1M TRAN/mm224.7M TRAN/mm225.9M TRAN/mm225.5M TRAN/mm2
CUDA Cores1843210752460851203840
Tensor Cores576 Gen4336 Gen3576 Gen2640–
RT Cores144 Gen384 Gen272 Gen1––
Memory BusGDDR6X 384-bitGDDR6X 384-bitGDDR6 384-bitHBM2 3072-bitGDDR6X 384-bit

Source: PNY




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