While Nvidia wanted to be reassuring in the computer attack that affected them, the stolen data would be much more important than expected by the brand.
RTX 4000, Nintendo Switch 2/Pro, DLSS leaked!
A few days ago, we told you about a computer attack that targeted the company Nvidia with more than 1 TB of data stolen. The brand, which initially minimized its importance in public, tried to counterattack (according to the hackers) and given the size of the leak, we now know why.
So, we already knew the highest configuration of the upcoming RTX 40xx, named AD102. It has 144 SM with 18432 FP32 cores. It would be accompanied by a 384-bit bus and we would be on vram to 24 GB in GGDR6. An important change would also come from the L2 cache with more than 96 MB (response to the IC of AMD?).
For the 4 other chips, it is the first time that their characteristics appear, with between 24 SM for AD107 and up to 84 SM (as much as the GA102 equipping the 3080/3090). Interestingly, the smallest chip that should equip the future 4050/60 will be equipped with a 128 bits bus and 8 GB of memory.
Still at Nvidia and shared by TechPowerUP, the (complete?) source code of today’s well-known software, the DLSS has been leaked. A large part of Nvidia’s intellectual property is now almost freely available on the Internet and allows competing brands to study the operation of DLSS…
NVIDIA leaks have "nvn2", which seems to be the graphics api for the Switch Pro, based on Ampere with ray tracing support and DLSS 2.2 pic.twitter.com/k6nEr31CcY
— Nikki™ 🌹 (@NWPlayer123) March 1, 2022
But the leak didn’t only bother Nvidia, because the manufacturer also deals with the chips that equip the latest Nintendo console, the Switch.
The current Switch is still equipped with an old socket, using the Maxwell architecture (whose performance is below a GTX 750). But all that could change with the next generations (Switch 2 or Pro?) using this time the latest architecture from Nvidia: Ampere, promising a considerable performance jump for the potential new model.
According to the leaker kopite7Kimi, the chip would be called T239. It would have 2048 FP32 cores and a CPU Arm A78 AE with 12 cores. However, it is not impossible that Nintendo will use this chip with half the number of FP32 cores, reducing the power but also the consumption.
