GeForce RTX 4000, TSMC's 5-nanometer manufacturing process for the AD102 GPU?

GeForce RTX 4000, TSMC’s 5-nanometer manufacturing process for the AD102 GPU?

Although we are still in full shortage, both NVIDIA and AMD are working hard on the next generation of video cards. In the case of NVIDIA we have seen how recently there has been talk of the arrival of the cards GeForce RTX 4000, based on architecture Ada Lovelace, in the third quarter of 2022.

Based on the latest rumors, NVIDIA should use the TSMC production process N5 (5 nanometers), thus abandoning the South Korean Samsung that is serving it in the production of Ampere GPUs with a custom 8 nanometer process. However, it cannot be excluded that NVIDIA relies on TSMC for some chips and Samsung for others, in order to better cover the volumes of demand, but at the moment there are too many months to debut to have a certain picture of the situation and the variables involved are many.

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A photo not representative of the actual product (or at least we hope)

The leakers also report that Nvidia’s Lovelace GPUs could arrive a little earlier than previous expectations, which however is not very clear what that means given that we are talking about the third – fourth quarter and there is still a precise date for the potential debut.

According to the rumors that have emerged so far, for Lovelace GPUs, NVIDIA will continue to rely on a monolithic architecture, while AMD seems to have opted for an MCM (multi-chip module) project, ie with multiple GPUs on a single package for future solutions based on RDNA 3 architecture – at least in the case of the most performing projects.

The next generation gaming flagship NVIDIA GPU should call itself AD102 and according to the first rumors it could boast 18432 CUDA cores returning double performance compared to the current GA102. A graphics chip of that type could occupy around 600mm2 and consume 400-450W despite the more advanced manufacturing process.

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