According to leaks, NVIDIA’s next-generation AD102 GPU is currently being tested for the upcoming GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card.
This is a major milestone for NVIDIA and the arrival of future Ada Lovelace GPUs. The AD102 variant is the GPU that should equip graphics cards such as the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090. It seems likely that these two cards will be in the first to be released in the second half of the year. The information given here is therefore important since it is the preliminary phase to the entry into mass production of GPUs. It is also the signal that these chips will undoubtedly give rise to some leaks to get a real idea of the performance of this new generation.
RTX 4090 in test phase with new GDDR6X
Another piece of information seems to be specific to the upcoming RTX 4090 as Kopite7kimi seems to know that NVIDIA will be using 24Gbps Vram chips on its AD102 GPU. Even if other versions could be considered, the use of this new evolution of GDDR6X should logically be reserved for the high-end version of the future series. Beyond the theoretical gains that the new Nvidia generation could bring, with the use of these new VRAMs, we could obtain memory speeds greater than 1 TB/s on graphics cards dedicated to the general public (wealthy). Mechanically, this configuration will give us a 15% increase in bandwidth and this is without taking into account the brand new compression technologies that will be integrated into the Ada Lovelace architecture.
