Ready to upgrade again in two years? Andreas Schilling, an editor at HardwareLuxx, has shared a new roadmap from NVIDIA that suggests the first GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards will be released by that time, with a graphic for the “Ada Lovelace Next” GPU architecture having been situated firmly in the 2025 slot. The roadmap seems to suggest that NVIDIA is sticking with a longer gap between gaming GPU releases, something that it adopted between the Ampere and Ada Lovelace generations, which debuted in May 2020 and October 2022, respectively.
- NVIDIA’s roadmap indicates that its next graphics architecture for GeForce, referred to as “Ada Lovelace Next,” is scheduled for release in 2025.
- The release of the Ada Lovelace successor marks another deviation from the previous 24-month release cycle, with the new cycle extending to approximately 30 months.
- NVIDIA has been allocating significant resources to its data center business, particularly focusing on the H100 accelerators based on the Hopper architecture.
- Grace and Grace Hopper superchips, part of NVIDIA’s CPU and “superchip” segment, are expected to lead the market from the second half of 2023.
- The successor to Grace Hopper, called “Hopper Next” (possibly named Blackwell), is anticipated to be released in the first half of 2024, alongside the BlueField 4 DPU.
- NVIDIA also plans to launch the Grace Next superchip in 2025, designed to support HPC (High-Performance Computing) and AI supercomputers.
- Despite the delay in the release of the next GeForce generation, NVIDIA may still introduce a flagship graphics card, such as the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti or a Titan variant, based on the current Ada Lovelace architecture.
From a HardwareLuxx report:
So far, NVIDIA has roughly followed a 24-month rhythm. From Ampere to Ada Lovelace, however, we’re talking closer to 30 months, and that trend appears to be continuing. Adding that 30 months to Ada Lovelace would be early 2025, keeping NVIDIA at its previous distance.
So far there are no signs of an Ada Lovelace successor. Everything covered in the rumors are projections of what NVIDIA might be planning. NVIDIA should have distributed most of its resources to the data center business anyway. The H100 accelerators based on the Hopper architecture are currently sold directly from the factory to customers. The successor “Hopper Next” should therefore be eagerly awaited, after all you want to take the wave of the LLM trend with you as best as possible. On the other hand, NVIDIA still seems to have a flagship up its sleeve with a GeForce RTX 4090 Ti or Titan variant. The Ada Lovelace product range is now basically exhausted from the GeForce RTX 4060 to the GeForce RTX 4090.
