We received a photo of the upcoming new variant of the A100 Tensor Core GPU.
The A100 based on GA100 “Ampere” GPU is a predecessor to H100 Hopper data-center accelerator. The new liquid-cooled variant is based on A100 PCIe based model released in June last year. This is not the SXM variant which is used for the HGX/DGX A100 systems.
While it’s nothing extraordinary for a data-center GPU to get liquid cooling, this model appears to be NVIDIA’s own sleek design with tubing connectors on the rear, right next to the 8-pin power connector.
A100 with NVIDIA liquid-cooling, Source: VideoCardz/NVIDIA
One should note that liquid-cooling for A100 accelerators is already widely available, except it requires manual replacement of the passive dual-slot cooler. Passive cooling may not be ideal for workstation systems where sufficient airflow is required. This is probably why NVIDIA opted for the A100 SXM variant for its DGX A100 Station, using sophisticated refrigerant cooling.
A100 with custom liquid-cooling, Source: VideoCardz
NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPUs-based GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards will be one of the major launches for 2022. The new lineup is expected to bring more than 2x the performance increase over Ampere but will also be one of the most power-hungry lineups ever released.
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The rumor once again comes from Greymon55 who has been actively sharing details regarding AMD and NVIDIA next-gen GPU launches. In his new tweet, the leaker claims that Ada Lovelace, NVIDIA’s next architecture for its GeForce RTX graphics cards will feature double the performance but also double the power consumption.
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Double performance, double power consumption, can you accept it?
— Greymon55 (@greymon55) November 5, 2021
Based on previous reports, this is looking to be the case as both AMD and NVIDIA next-gen GPUs are going to end up offering over 2x the performance increase but will also increase power input dramatically.
The NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPUs will power the next-generation GeForce RTX 40 graphics cards that will go head-on with AMD’s RDNA 3 based Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards. There’s still some speculation regarding the use of MCM by NVIDIA. The Hopper GPU, which is primarily aimed at the Datacenter & AI segment, is allegedly taping out soon and will feature an MCM architecture. NVIDIA won’t be using an MCM design on its Ada Lovelace GPUs so they will keep the traditional monolithic design. The Ada Lovelace GPUs are expected to utilize TSMC’s 5nm process node and will bring in a series of key innovations, architecturally.
Previously rumored specs have shown us a huge update to the core specs. The NVIDIA AD102 “ADA GPU” appears to have 18432 CUDA Cores based on the preliminary specs (which can change) provided by Kopite. This is almost twice the cores present in Ampere which was already a massive step up from Turing. A 2.2 GHz clock speed would give us 81 TFLOPs of compute performance (FP32). This is more than twice the performance of the existing RTX 3090 which packs 36 TFLOPs of FP32 compute power.
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At the same time, these huge performance figures would come at the cost of higher overall power consumption. NVIDIA is already expected to ship its RTX 3090 Ti (reportedly the first PCIe Gen 5.0 graphics card) with a TGP of 450W. Ada Lovelace-based GeForce RTX 40 series is expected to end up with a TDP well over 500W and even around 600W. That’s why a new connector type that can support such high-power figures is being designed for the next generation of graphics cards.
Kopite7kimi also hinted at some specification details of the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace chips a while back which you can read more about here and check out the specs in the table provided below:
NVIDIA CUDA GPU (RUMORED) Preliminary:
GPU
TU102
GA102
AD102
Architecture
Turing
Ampere
Ada Lovelace
Process
TSMC 12nm NFF
Samsung 8nm
5nm
Graphics Processing Clusters (GPC)
6
7
12
Texture Processing Clusters (TPC)
36
42
72
Streaming Multiprocessors (SM)
72
84
144
CUDA Cores
4608
10752
18432
Theoretical TFLOPs
16.1
37.6
~80 TFLOPs?
Flagship SKU
RTX 2080 Ti
RTX 3090
RTX 4090?
TGP
250W
350W
450-600W?
Release
Sep. 2018
Sept. 20
2022 (TBC)
The NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPU family is expected to bring a generational jump similar to Maxwell to Pascal. It is expected to launch late in Q4 2022 but based on GPU supply and availability, it’s likely to move back to 2023.
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NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3090 flagship reigns supreme over AMD’s entire Radeon RX 6000 RDNA 2 graphics card lineup in terms of overall share within the Steam hardware survey. While the data base is not indicative of actual market share, it does show that only 1 out of 14 gamers has AMD Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards installed inside his PC while the rest are running NVIDIA’s latest Ampere GeForce RTX GPUs.
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For some time now, AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards weren’t showing up within the Steam Hardware Survey but Redditor, Skipan, found a workaround that lists down AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards to see how well they stack up to NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 numbers in the database. The workaround requires accessing the share for Vulkan Systems since the DirectX figures for AMD RX 6000 series GPUs were so low compared to NVIDIA Ampere GPUs that they weren’t even showing up. With the new figures in, let’s see how they compare.
They are listed under vulkan systems here https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/directx/
If you compare the shares for vulkan systems vs overall shares listed on https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey you’ll see that all AMD and NVIDIA cards have twice the share under vulkan systems. So just divide by 2 to get the overall share.
6900xt 0.08%
6800xt 0.1%
6800 0.05%
6700xt 0.11%
total 0.34%
via Skipan (r/Hardware)
The AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT flagship has a share of 0.08%, 6800 XT has a share of 0.1%, 6800 has a share of 0.05%, & the recently launched 6700 XT has the highest share of 0.11%. All combined, the entire AMD Radeon RX 6000 series lineup has a share of 0.34%. Now if we compare these numbers to NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards, the RTX 3090 alone has a share of 0.37% (Linux) & that’s a flagship $1500 US card. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 has a share of 0.85%, RTX 3070 sits at 1.53% with the highest market share, & the RTX 3060 series amounts for 1% share. The database hasn’t yet included the RTX 3080 Ti or RTX 3070 Ti.
Looking at the overall share split between NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, the Ampere GeForce RTX 30 series sits at roughly 93.4% while RDNA 2 Radeon RX 6000 series sits at 6.6%. This is a split of 14:1 which means that out of 14 gamers, only one is using an AMD Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card on Steam. Comparing the full Linux share, the Ampere family now amounts to 9.6% of the share & AMD’s RDNA 2 family accounts for 0.68% (including mobile and desktop variants).
AMD & NVIDIA GPU Share (Steam Hardware Survey Linux DB / July 2021)
NVIDIA Graphics Card
Share
AMD Graphics Card
Share
GeForce RTX 3090
0.37%
Radeon RX 6900 XT
0.08%
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
N/A
Radeon RX 6800 XT
0.10%
GeForce RTX 3080
0.85%
Radeon RX 6800
0.05%
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
N/A
Radeon RX 6700 XT
0.11%
GeForce RTX 3070
1.53%
Radeon RX 6600 XT
N/A
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
0.41%
–
–
GeForce RTX 3060
0.64%
–
–
Total (Desktop GPUs)
3.80%
Total (Desktop GPUs)
0.34%
Once again, these numbers aren’t supposed to be digested as actual market share but they are rather an internal statistic put together by Steam to show what the majority of their userbase is using inside their PCs. Steam has an active user base of over 130 million and hit over 26 million concurrent users in May 2021. To be realistic, both NVIDIA and AMD have had their fair share of trouble to meet the demand but one thing is clear, NVIDIA did have a much bigger stock to offer to gamers than AMD did and even months after launch, you could find an NVIDIA RTX 30 series card while AMD RX 6000 series are harder to find.
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The Crypto jump also pushed many gamers to buy NVIDIA RTX 30 series cards over AMD variants and had been mining off their GPUs through mining suites such as NiceHash in their free time. Though not as lucrative as a few months back, these GPUs offer top-notch gaming performance and if they can pay out some of their costs through mining, then why not let gamers have some fun.
The downside is that the same cards have been popular in the mining community and many gamers were deprived of them for months before NVIDIA launched their LHR series which kind of fixes the whole miner’s gobbling-up gaming cards situation. Since then, we have seen prices of graphics cards falling further and availability getting better with analysts claiming a return to normal rates by Q4 2021 or early 2022. We saw in the previous GPU market share report that AMD and NVIDIA retained their actual GPU market share though those numbers comprise last-gen parts.
In the end, AMD and NVIDIA both have some really competitive products in their respective GPU lineup, offering amazing new features to gamers such as FSR, DLSS, and Ray-tracing support but it all boils down to availability and unfortunately, both manufacturers have been unable to keep up with the insane demand, especially AMD.
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