Nvidia's next-generation GPUs will arrive in 2025 and slightly later than expected
A slide released by Nvidia as part of a briefing on AI training performance appears to have revealed the launch date of its next gaming graphics architecture. The slide, spotted by Hardwareluxx, places «Ada Lovelace-Next» in 2025.
That's unambiguously later than most industry observers have been expecting. Nvidia's existing Ada Lovelace GPUs form the basis of all current RTX 40-series cards, including the RTX 4090, 4080, 4070 Ti, 4070, 4060 Ti and the latest addition in the 4060. The first Ada Lovelace GPUs were announced in September last year and went on sale in October.
The usual cadence for new GPU architectures is generally assumed to be two years, putting the launch date of first members of Nvidia's next-gen GPU family in fall next year. However the slide clearly places Ada Lovelace-Next in 2025.
Inspecting the slide more closely, the precise positions of various architectures does seem indicate not just the year of launch but a more precise timeframe. On that basis, Ada Lovelace-Next's launch looks to be slated for spring 2025.
If that's correct, the «delay» versus loose expectations would be around six months. So not huge, but still a little disappointing. That's especially true when you consider how meagre the performance gains Nvidia is delivering with Ada Lovelace over the previous Ampere generation.
Nvidia itself, for instance, is only claiming 20% raster performance boost for the new RTX 4060 over the RTX 3060. If Nvidia shifts to a 2.5-year cadence for new GPU launches, a 20% gen-on-gen performance increase would mean it takes fully a decade to double baseline raster performance. Yuck.
Incidentally, the slide does not reveal the codename for Nvidia's next GPU family. Most previous rumours refer to it as
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