The rumor mill has started grinding about NVIDIA's next-generation gaming GPU, and it looks like NVIDIA does not want to allow the current market environment to get in the way of implementing its product roadmap, with a roughly 2-year GeForce generation product launch cadence. The next-generation Ge...
  • Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
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    1 month ago

    GeForce “Rubin” will be built on some variant of the current TSMC 3 nm FinFET node. They need not be the same N3 node that’s in use by Apple, Intel, and others; and NVIDIA might collaborate with TSMC on an exclusive variant just the way it created the NVIDIA 4N node, derived from TSMC N5.

    I will speculate power efficiency will be at worst roughly equal to the 5000 series on a SKU class basis (5060 to 6060 and so on), most likely we will see efficiency gains at the SKU class level.

    There was a big jump between the 3000 and 4000 series as Nvidia went from Samsung 8 NM to TSMC 4N for the 4000 series.

    Both the 4000 and 5000 series were on the same TSMC 4N node.

    For the 6000 series we are expecting some sort of new TSMC node (a variant of 3NM), so I would expect efficiency (at the SKU class level) to improve or at worst stay the same.