Nvidia shipped the first GeForce RTX 40-series graphics card, the GeForce RTX 4090, in October of last year. The company soon followed it up with GeForce RTX 4080 in November and the RTX 4070 Ti in January 2023. Most recently, Nvidia unveiled the RTX 4070. The entire series utilizes TSMC’s 4nm process node, which is also employed by many mobile processors. However, reports suggest that the upcoming RTX 50 series will be built on the more advanced 3nm node from the Taiwanese company.
The RTX 5090 could get serious performance boost
TSMC has made significant progress with its 3nm process node, which is claimed to offer impressive performance improvements. If you talk about the numbers, the N3 process provides a 60% to 70% higher logic density and a 15% higher performance while consuming 30% to 35% less power compared to the 5nm node that TSMC launched in 2020. The difference may not be as earth-shattering when compared to the 4nm node.
Considering the RTX 50 series will employ the new process node (Via Hardware Times), you may expect some serious performance boost. From what we know, the upcoming RTX 50 series GPUs, codenamed Blackwell, are expected to release in 2024. Like the RTX 40 series, they will also be based on a monolithic design. Since they utilize a smaller process node, the transistor counts could exceed a billion, with densities reaching nearly 150 billion/mm².
The outlet highlights that Blackwell is expected to offer core clocks of over 3GHz and bus widths of up to 512 bits, which would result in memory bandwidths that rival HBM memory.
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