Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace, also referred to simply as Lovelace, is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Ampere architecture, officially announced on September 20, 2022. Named after English mathematician Ada Lovelace, who is often regarded as the first computer programmer, it is the first architecture to include a first and last name. Nvidia announced the architecture along with the new GeForce 40 series consumer GPUs and the RTX 6000 Ada Generation pro workstation graphics card. The new GPUs were revealed to use TSMC's new 5 nm "4N" process which offers increased efficiency over the previous Samsung 8 nm and TSMC N7 processes used by Nvidia for its previous-generation Ampere architecture. Background The Ada Lovelace architecture follows on from the Ampere architecture that was released in 2020. The Ada Lovelace architecture was announced by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a GTC 2022 keynote on September 20, 2022 with the architecture powering Nvidia's GPUs for gaming, workstations and datacenters. Architectural details Architectural improvements of the Ada Lovelace architecture include the following: CUDA Compute Capability 8.9 TSMC 4Nprocess (custom designed for NVIDIA) - not to be confused with TSMC's regular N4 node 4th-generation Tensor Cores with FP8, FP16, bfloat16, TensorFloat-32 (TF32) and sparsity acceleration 3rd-generation Ray Tracing Cores, plus concurrent ray tracing and shading and compute Shader Execution Reordering (SER) Nvidia video encoder/decoder (NVENC/NVDEC) with 8K 10-bit 60FPS AV1 fixed function hardware encoding No NVLink support Streaming multiprocessors (SMs)