Nvidia announces another blockbuster GPU—Ada Lovelace

This week (#38 of the year), Nvidia dominated the news with their GTC announcements. Top among them was the introduction of the long-awaited and rumored RTX 40 series and associated AD100 series GPUs known as the Ada Lovelace architecture. Everything about the AD100 is supersized—compare the current GPU with the previous generation.   RTX 4090 RTX 3090 Difference Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere   GPU AD102 GA102   Process node 4nm TSMC 8nm Samsung 0% Transistors (b) 76 28.3 269% Die size mm² 608 628 0.96% Cuda cores 16384 10496 156% RT cores 128 82 156% Tensor cores 512 328 156%