More confident than ever in the quality of its products, NVIDIA seems in no hurry to upgrade its ranges.
Whether it's AMD or NVIDIA, we've become accustomed to seeing a new generation of graphics processors every two years. The two rival companies have thus multiplied their references over the past few years. Staying with NVIDIA cards alone, in 2016 we were treated to the GeForce GTX 1000, the "Pascal" generation. Two years later, in 2018, came the GeForce RTX 2000, the " Turing " generation. Two more years later, to bring us to 2020, came the GeForce RTX 3000, " Ampere ". Finally, last autumn - October 2022 to be exact - NVIDIA launched the GeForce RTX 4000, known as " Ada Lovelace ". In six years, we've seen four generations of GPUs, and it would have been logical for NVIDIA to release its new architecture in September/October 2024.
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The information that follows is to be taken with the necessary hindsight, as NVIDIA has not confirmed any such thing, but the HardwareLUXX site, relayed by Videocardz, has got its hands on an internal NVIDIA document that appears to be an official return sheet for the brand's forthcoming products. A return sheet that should calm the ardor of NVIDIA's most loyal supporters, since the generation destined to replace the RTX 4000s seems to be set for 2025, but rather at the beginning of the year, if the scale of the graphic presented means anything. It should be noted, however, that the document in question remains very vague and that this new generation of graphics cards is only baptized "Ada Lovelace Next".
This is six to twelve months later than everyone had anticipated, but it doesn't mean that NVIDIA will be twiddling its thumbs for the whole of 2024. No, it's simply that the GeForce graphics card sector is likely to be quieter. So, 2024 should be the year of the launch of Hopper Next, a generation we used to call Blackwell, and which concerns the world of calculators much more than our little PCs. At the very end of 2023 or the beginning of 2024, NVIDIA also plans to market BlueField-4, a component designed for what are known in the jargon as DPUs or data processing units. However, it remains possible that NVIDIA will revise its plans depending on how events unfold. It's true that, for the moment, its GeForce products are rather quiet on the PC segment: five RTX 4000 models have already been launched, while AMD seems to be struggling to get RDNA3 off the ground, with only three references released at the same time.
