New Nvidia GPU architecture to take inspiration from the stars

It’s trying like Nvidia will likely be turning to the names of well-known scientists once more in the case of codenaming its subsequent main microarchitecture. With the likes of Alan Turing, Nikola Tesla, and Grace Hopper already celebrated by way of Nvidia GPU structure names, the subsequent celebrant in line seems to be set to be famend astronomer, Vera Rubin, if leaked data is to be believed.

This structure wouldn’t be utilized in gaming GPUs as deployed contained in the best graphics cards of the world, however would as a substitute be for AI and knowledge heart GPUs. Nonetheless, it’s great to see the corporate acknowledge the work of a lady that pioneered our understanding of galaxies.

The Rubin title could be utilized to the structure that follows the upcoming Blackwell (named after statistician David Blackwell) lineup of GPUs, which itself follows on from the Hopper structure that’s named after pioneer of pc programming, Grace Hopper.

The Hopper H100 chip is the one which has been snapped up in huge numbers in current months, main to very large monetary success for Nvidia, with it seeing 279% year-on-year growth in its AI chip enterprise. As such, the Rubin structure shouldn’t be the subsequent one however the one after.

The rumor comes by way of common – and commonly proper – leaker kopite7kimi, who tweeted “Miss the Golden Age of Exploration” whereas quote tweeting a mini bio of Vera Rubin. That’s not loads to go on however the reference was clear.

At the moment, little or no is understood concerning the energy that may contained inside the Rubin structure however we will actually anticipate it to be exceedingly succesful. The GPU title itself is predicted to be R100, following the conference of the letter of GPUs being the primary letter of the surname of the structure codename – Hopper being H100, Ampere A100, and so on.

As for gaming GPUs and graphics playing cards, the subsequent GPU structure we will anticipate will likely be powering the RTX 5000 series is Ada Lovelace-Subsequent. In the meantime, it will likely be the RTX 4000 Super series of graphics playing cards that we subsequent see showing on cabinets, powered by the present Ada Lovelace structure used within the likes of the RTX 4090, RTX 4080, and RTX 4070.