Nvidia may have halted production of the RTX 4000 series in preparation for their next-gen gaming GPUs

HARDWARE NEWS manhkbrady - 13-Nov-2024, 6:00 pm

There is no official information yet, but all attention is focused on January next year at the annual CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, USA. At this event, Nvidia is likely to unveil its latest generation of graphics cards, the RTX 5000 series, based on the Blackwell GPU architecture. Around this same time, Nvidia is expected to deliver pre-ordered Blackwell chips designed for servers. These massive silicon dies contain tensor cores specifically for accelerating matrix-vector processing to power AI models on cloud servers.

According to reports from Board Channels, Nvidia seems to have halted production of almost all Ada Lovelace GPUs, which were used to produce gaming graphics cards from the RTX 4050 for laptops to the RTX 4090 for desktops, in order to switch consumer GPU production by TSMC to the new Blackwell GPU architecture. Previously, as reported by Board Channels and other unofficial sources, Nvidia had already stopped producing AD102 (RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4090), AD103 (RTX 4070 Ti Super, RTX 4070 Super, RTX 4080), and AD104 GPUs. Most recently, production of AD106 has reportedly ceased as well to make way for the new generation GPUs.

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AD106 is considered one of the best-selling GPUs in the global gaming market, forming the foundation for the RTX 4060, 4060 Ti, and 4070 models. Currently, the only Ada Lovelace GPU production line still active, according to various sources, is for the AD107, which powers the RTX 4050 and 4060 Laptop models. Due to its affordability, the RTX 4060 Laptop is now the second most popular gaming graphics card worldwide, just behind the RTX 3060, as indicated by Valve's Steam Hardware Survey, which tracks gaming PC configurations.

As for the Blackwell series, Nvidia is anticipated to showcase the two flagship models of the new generation, the RTX 5090 and 5080, at CES, with the 4070, 4060, and laptop versions expected to be introduced around mid-year, during the annual Computex trade show held at the end of May and early June.

Regarding the configuration of the RTX 5090, the Founders Edition reference model will reportedly feature high-density graphics memory and may incorporate up to three separate printed circuit boards (PCBs) connected together to enhance cooling capabilities. The GB202 “Blackwell” GPU is rumored to be equipped with GDDR7 memory, with a bandwidth of up to 512 bits and a revised layout around the GPU.

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