Nearly two years have passed since NVIDIA launched the Ampere architecture in May 2020, which is the core architecture used by the geForce RTX30 series graphics cards, and the news about NVIDIA's next-generation GPU has been circulating for a long time. According to multiple revelations, "Hopper" will become the code name of the next generation of GPUs. In fact, long before the launch of Ampere, there was already news that NVIDIA's next generation of products was codenamed Hopper, which was used to commemorate Ms. Grace Hopper. The programmer is known as the first lady of computer software engineering and the mother of the compiled language Cobol.
As is customary, NVIDIA will first use a new generation of GPUs in commercial areas such as data centers, and then it will be a close-knit gaming graphics card, that is, the new generation of GeForce RTX40 series products. Hopper will be built using a 5nm process, the top core code name is GH100, the core area is close to 1000mm2, 20% larger than the area of the GA100 ampere core 826mm2, and the number of transistors may exceed 60 billion.
In addition, it is reported that Hopper will use MCM multi-core packaging, internal integration of two chips, is expected to have a total of 288 SM streaming processors. This design is also the first adopted by NVIDIA, similar to the Chiplet design used by AMD's EYPC server processor, which can combine multiple cores for greater performance. In this way, the power consumption of the entire chip may reach the level of kilowatts, which is colloquially speaking, it consumes one kilowatt of electricity per hour. However, in the design of commercial products, power consumption is not the first priority, as for the RTX 40 series of game graphics cards, there will certainly be no such terrible power consumption, players do not have to worry.
Not surprisingly, Hopper should be officially unveiled at the Spring GTC Graphics Technology Conference in San Jose, California on March 21 this year, so let's look forward to Lao Huang's speech at that time! As for the RTX40 series, it has been previously reported that the core code name is Ada Lovelace (daughter of British poet Byron), which is expected to be released in the third quarter of this year.
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