DigiTimes report outs a 2022 timeline for 5nm Lovelace-based NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 and 4080, highlights that Hopper will be pulling AI/datacenter duty instead

A report by DigiTimes offers new insight into NVIDIA's plans for its upcoming GeForce RTX 4000 series. According to the report, NVIDIA's "Lovelace" GPU architecture will power next-generation cards like the GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080. Lovelace GPUs will be built on the 5nm process node, meaning significant gains to power efficiency and performance over 8nm Ampere parts like the GeForce RTX 3080. 

Early prep by Taiwanese factories could possibly help alleviate the availability issues that plagued both Ampere and RDNA2 at launch, getting these powerful cards into the hands of more gamers. 

What will the Lovelace gaming GPUs look like, though? Earlier rumors indicated that NVIDIA was moving towards an MCM (multi-chip module) approach. Lovelace, however, is expected to be a monolithic chip, albeit packing a remarkable 18432 CUDA cores, clocked at up to 2.5 GHz. This could mean performance that's up to twice as fast as the current flagship GeForce RTX 3090, potentially making high framerate 4K gaming a reality. 

What about Hopper, though? NVIDIA's Hopper architecture was earlier touted as being an MCM-based successor to Lovelace. The DigiTimes report, however, claims that Hopper is being developed concurrently with Lovelace and will instead be used for HPC and datacenter GPUs. 

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