Posted on Tuesday, February 08 2022 @ 18:49 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Will NVIDIA's new generation deliver a massive leap in terms of the number of transistors? Citing a rumor circulating on
ChipHell, VideoCardz
reports the upcoming 5nm chip could pack as many as 140 billion transistors. If the report is accurate, that would be 2.4x more than the 54.2 billion transistors used by the NVIDIA GA100 from the current Ampere generation.
A massive chip
Will Hopper be one of the last mega-size GPUs for the datacenter market? While future models are expected to transition to a multi-chip module (MCM) design, the GH100 is said to be a monolithic chip with a die area of around 900mm²:
The most recent rumors put Hopper GPUs among the largest processors ever made. It was said that might even feature a 900 mm² die, but many enthusiasts are rightly skeptical of this claim because the current EUV photomask (reticle) limit is 858 mm².
It's believed NVIDIA also has a GH102, which will adopt an MCM design. An official announcement from NVIDIA may follow in March at its GTC 2022 event.