NVIDIA GPU Roadmap: Lovelace architecture is coming after Ampere
Source: HW Upgrade added 23rd Dec 2020
Mathematics name Ada Lovelace emerges paired with next generation NVIDIA next generation GPUs: debut between 2021 and 2022 with 5 nanometer production process
of Paolo Corsini published on 23 December 2020 , at 13: 11 in Video Cards channel
NVIDIA GeForce Ampere
NVIDIA has been offering video cards from the GeForce RTX family 3000 for a few months, with the latest addition GeForce RTX 3060 You don’t it will certainly be the last model of the family to debut. These GPUs are based on architecture known with the codename of Ampere , which should be used for the proposals NVIDIA that will be sold in the next 18 months according to the historical trend of the debut of new GPUs from NVIDIA.
Following the Ampere proposals, it is this indiscretion of the last days, we will find new proposals based on 5 nanometer production technology and on an architecture indicated by the code name of Lovelace .
This name refers to Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician who lived between 1815 and the 1852 which has set up an algorithm to generate Bernoulli numbers through Charles Babbage’s analytical engine. For this reason Ada Lovelace is often remembered as the world’s first computer programmer .
NVIDIA has historically always wanted to match the name of a famous mathematician or scientist of the past to its architecture; the tradition is confirmed with Lovelace, family of GPUs that will be built with a 5 nanometr production process i to the rumors that emerged online.
In the past, the code name of Hopper
also emerged to identify future generations of NVIDIA GPUs expected to debut after the Ampere ones now on the market. Information on the Lovelace architecture moves forward the debut of Hopper, architecture based on a multi-chip module (MCM) design with therefore more chips mounted on the same package. Hopper, in the light of the rumors that emerged online, would in any case be a specific architecture for the world of high performance computing and therefore of datacenters expected between 2023 and 2024 at the debut. For Lovelace the estimates are of a debut between 2021, presumably not before the end of the year, and 2022.
For the time being, in the absence of official guidance from NVIDIA, we remain on Ampere’s proposals with the hope that their availability in volumes on the market will rapidly improve.