To demonstrate the power of Nvidia H100 (hopper) AI training, 3,584 Hopper GPUs We trained a GPT-3 based model in just 11 minutes. At its press conference, Nvidia announced its latest update detailing details of the company’s next-generation products, including the successor to the GeForce RTX 40 series (Ada Lovelace, some of the best graphics cards for gaming available today). We shared our roadmap.
According to the roadmap, Nvidia will launch its ‘Ada Lovelace-Next’ graphics card in 2025. Assuming the chipmaker continues with the current naming scheme, the next-generation GeForce products should hit the market as his GeForce RTX 50 series. For obvious reasons, Nvidia did not reveal the codename of his Ada Lovelace successor. Some think it could be Blackwell, a well-known codename for hacking Nvidia. However, Blackwell is likely to be the successor to Hopper, which Nvidia has dubbed the “Hopper Next” on its roadmap.
Nvidia has typically followed a two-year sales pace for consumer graphics cards. For example, this chipmaker launched Pascal in 2016, Turing in 2018, Ampere in 2020, and not long ago he launched Ada Lovelace in 2022. If Nvidia were to launch his Ada Lovelace successor in 2025, the company would break its usual rhythm and push its pace. It will take him nearly three years, or 30 months if the chipmakers are aiming for his early 2025 release.
That said, Nvidia’s AI business is growing well. Recent AI trends have created a huge demand for his Nvidia GPUs such as the latest H100 and the previous generation A100. For example, ByteDance reportedly ordered $1 billion worth of his Nvidia GPUs this year alone. Despite export restrictions, Nvidia continues to grow its AI business in China, one of his largest markets in the world. The restrictions forced Nvidia to undermine some of its best AI products and release certain SKUs of his, such as the H800 and A800, in order to meet export requirements.
Let’s look at it another way. The export restrictions are working in Nvidia’s favor as it means that the chipmaker’s customers will need to buy more GPUs to get performance on par with the vanilla versions.
It’s understandable why Nvidia would prioritize production of computing GPUs over gaming GPUs. Recent reports have alleged that the chipmaker has ramped up production of its computing GPU offerings. Nvidia isn’t facing stiff competition from his AMD’s RDNA 3 product stack, and Intel isn’t posing any serious threat to his GPU monopoly at this point. In other words, NVIDIA can afford to procrastinate a bit.
Nvidia recently expanded its GeForce RTX 40 series product stack to the bottom (or at least close to it) of the GeForce RTX 4060 or GeForce RTX 4060 Ti. GeForce RTX 4050 or Ti models such as GeForce RTX 4080 Ti and GeForce RTX 4090 Ti could be released. Nvidia could also offer Titan RTX Ada.continuous leak Nvidia Quad Slot Cooler It suggests that at least one of these monsters exists.
And just in case, Nvidia could always take an old Turing playbook and revamp Ada Lovelace, give it the unmistakable super treatment, and further expand Ada’s lineup. But one thing is clear. That said, no one expects a true successor to Loveless Architecture this year or next.
