Nvidia RTX 4000 GPUs rumored to be a ‘major refresh’ on 5nm in 2022
By Darren Allan
Fresh leak comes direct from supply chain in Taiwan
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Nvidia has new ‘Lovelace’ graphics cards that are due to arrive in 2022 which will use TSMC’s 5nm process, a fresh rumor asserts.
And this time – we have, of course, heard this from the grapevine before – the info comes purportedly direct from the supply chain.
The latest speculation is from DigiTimes, which is a somewhat hit-and-miss source, so let’s remain skeptical. The report was highlighted on Twitter by prolific 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 as previously rumored, and will be a ‘major refresh’ for Nvidia (as expected).
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 by the DigiTimes article, 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 be clocked at around 2.3GHz.
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