graphics processing unit
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(GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia
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as the successor to the Ampere
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architecture, officially announced on September 20, 2022. It is named after English mathematician Ada Lovelace
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace ('' née'' Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the ...
who is often regarded as the first computer programmer
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and is the first architecture to include both a first and last name. Nvidia announced the architecture along with the new GeForce 40 series
The GeForce 40 series is a family of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, succeeding the GeForce 30 series. The series was announced on September 20, 2022, at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2022 event; the RTX 4090 was releas ...
consumer GPUs and the RTX 6000 Ada Generation pro workstation graphics card. The new GPUs were revealed to use TSMC
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's new 5 nm
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"4N" process which offers increased efficiency over the previous Samsung
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8 nm and TSMC N7 processes used by Nvidia for its last generation Ampere architecture.
Details
Architectural improvements of the Ada Lovelace architecture include the following: *CUDA
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Compute Capability 8.9
* TSMC
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4Nprocess (custom designed for NVIDIA) - not to be confused with TSMC's regular N4 node
* 4th-generation Tensor Cores with FP8, FP16, bfloat16, TensorFloat-32 (TF32) and sparsity acceleration
* 3rd-generation Ray Tracing Cores, plus concurrent ray tracing and shading and compute
* Shader Execution Reordering (SER)
* Nvidia video encoder/decoder (NVENC/NVDEC) with 8K 10-bit 60FPS AV1
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fixed function hardware encoding
* No NVLink
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support
Chips
* AD102 * AD103 * AD104Products using Ada Lovelace
*GeForce 40 series
The GeForce 40 series is a family of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, succeeding the GeForce 30 series. The series was announced on September 20, 2022, at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2022 event; the RTX 4090 was releas ...
** GeForce RTX 4070 (AD104)
** GeForce RTX 4070 Ti (AD104)
** GeForce RTX 4080 (AD103)
** GeForce RTX 4090 (AD102)
* Nvidia Workstation GPUs (formerly Quadro)
** NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation Graphics Card (AD102)
* Nvidia Data Center GPUs (formerly Tesla)
** Nvidia L40 (AD102)
References
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