It’s been nearly a year since the RTX 3000 series of graphics cards came out, and there’s no doubt that these graphics cards have been praised by many gamers for their performance. Similarly, the supply situation of graphics cards this year is still not optimistic. Miners are still working hard to prevent players from buying graphics cards. Even second-hand graphics cards are sold at scary prices.Miners work hard to crack the limitations of new cards on blockchain computing, in order to disperse the trend of miners grabbing cards as much as possible, NVIDIA also tried to launch althoughExpensively priced, but a graphics card designed specifically for cryptocurrency operations. But graphics card deals are still incredibly hot. even appearedTruck robbers directly stole a large number of mid- to high-end graphics cards. Players may only be able to focus on the next generation of graphics cards. A whistleblower revealed that the next generation of graphics cards will greatly increase in performance, which can be said to be twice as fast as the current RTX 3000 series. However, the price of high speed is a twofold increase in power consumption. This may indicate that the performance of the next generation of graphics cards may be amazing enough, but NVIDIA, which focused on energy consumption ratio performance in the past, may temporarily ignore the terrible data on power consumption:
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The price of graphics cards is like a girlfriend who has changed her mind and never looks back., merchants seized the tight supply situation of graphics cards and took the opportunity to launch a series of tie-in plans to promote other products with relatively unpopular sales. For gamers who plan to build a new computer to play video games, it may not have much impact. Among the many bundling plans, if you choose a product that just meets your needs and buy it, you can buy a new graphics card when purchasing the product. But after all, not everyone needs a new computer. Some people may just need a decent graphics card. The price should be sweeter and the performance should be mid-to-upper-level. However, it is unlikely that these people can successfully buy a graphics card they like without selling it with other products. Even if it is a second-hand one, it is very difficult.
Although the supply and demand situation of graphics cards is very dangerous, the performance of NVIDIA graphics cards still receives many praises. Although the sales volume of RTX 3000 has also been greatly increased by miners, it has also attracted the attention of many players who are preparing to replace their cards. The performance of this series. Strike while the iron is hot, and NVIDIA is of course already planning the next generation of graphics cards. It’s just that all the information is currently under confidentiality, and the information can’t be released at once until the release date. But there are still some gossips caught by tipsters. A user with the Twitter account Greymon55 hinted: “Double performance, double power consumption, can you accept it?”:
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From this sentence we can judge several things:
- Greymon55 seems to be talking about a new GPU series
- Its performance can be measured by twice the statistics, meaning it is twice as fast as the previous generation product
- But its power consumption performance is obviously twice as fast. Since it is twice as fast, it is reasonable to think that the power consumption may be twice as much.
After that, Greymon55 revealed more information. From the chip code name, it is easy to see that he is hinting at a new graphics card currently under development codenamed Ada Lovelace. No surprise, it will be the successor of NVIDIA RTX 3000. According to past naming logic, it may be called the RTX 4000 series. But before NVIDIA officially announces it, it is safer to call it Ada Lovelace.
Judging from the follow-up tweet, Greymon55 mentioned Ada Lovelace’s current flagship core, the AD102. He mentioned that AD102 will use TSMC 5nm process and have 18,432 Cuda cores and 144 SM units. The display memory is GDDR6X with 24GB capacity. The memory bandwidth is 384 bit and the speed is possible 21 Gbps. The core clock portion is around 2.3 GHz to 2.5 GHz. FP32 performance is 85 to 92 TFLOPS. As for the TGP part, he believes that according to the PCI-E 5.0 power supply specification, the TGP range of AD102 should be 450w to 650w. For comparison, the TDP of RTX 3080 is 320W, and the official recommendation is to use a 700W power supply:
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The current PCI-E 5.0 power supply specification has been relaxed to 600W. In order to achieve such a high wattage, changes have been made in the power cable specifications. The AD102 may be the first graphics card to benefit from this specification and improve performance. However, it may be a little uncomfortable for users who pursue energy consumption ratio and do not like their computers to become an electric heater. After all, the last time NVIDIA’s new flagship cards were more power efficient than their old counterparts was when the GTX 980 was launched. Image source
At that time, the TDP of this flagship graphics card dropped from 250W of the previous generation GTX 780 to 165W. Since this generation, the TDP of NVIDIA’s flagship graphics cards has increased all the way, from 180W in the GTX 1080 era to 320W in the RTX 3080. Now Ada Lovelace is about to show up looking at over 600 watts of specs. For some users who are environmentally conscious, they must have mixed feelings.
Of course, by this time, the miners who must have more mixed feelings in their minds are constantly calculating whether their electricity expenses and computing power can balance the profits and losses of their mining machines.
Source: KOCPC Chinese