Every day brings us closer to the release of the next generation of graphics cards. The RX 6000 series and Nvidia RTX 30 series have been with us for well over a year, and we can't wait to see what comes next. Noted leaker Greymon55 loves to give us news, and his latest tweet suggests that the fundamental architecture of the upcoming Lovelace or RTX 40 series GPUs isn't all that different from today's Ampere RTX 30 GPUs.
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However, don't be fooled by this rumor. Nvidia's RTX 30-series cards are built on Samsung, which is a derivative of the 10nm node. This puts Nvidia at a disadvantage compared to AMD's use of TSMC's 7nm node. This is part of the reason Nvidia can't achieve clock speeds as high as AMD's.
The next-generation GPUs from Nvidia and AMD are expected to use TSMC's 5nm node. This will allow Nvidia to recover some of its current disadvantages. The move to a smaller, denser node will allow Nvidia to pack in a lot more shader clusters, so even if Lovelace doesn't change much, a higher-clocked card with 50 percent or more shaders will still be a force to be reckoned with.
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Of course, Greymon55 isn't saying that Lovelace doesn't change anything, so the RTX 40 cards will definitely be faster than the RTX 30. We can expect more CUDA cores, ROPs, Tensor cores, and RT cores at higher clocks with possibly more bandwidth. Of course, this isn't a bold prediction, but we still have many months before the RTX 40s launch.
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The RTX 40 Lovelace cards will go head-to-head with AMD's RDNA3 cards, and these appear to be radically different from the RX 6000 cards. The next big battle in the never-ending GPU wars is set to begin sometime in 2022.
Source of information: pcgamer.com
