New official roadmap suggests Nvidia could return to a yearly gaming GPU release schedule starting with 2024

An updated roadmap recently released by Nvidia for its investors appears to be lending credibility to the rumors that started circulating last month about an H2 2024 release for the next gen gaming GPU. Earlier this year, Nvidia showed a roadmap that suggested the successor for the current Ada Lovelace models would launch in early 2025. From previous leaks, we know that the Ada Lovelace successor is codenamed Blackwell (B100), and the new roadmap is showing this specific denomination right between 2024 and 2025, also suggesting that Nvidia may return to a yearly release cadence, as the B100 successor codenamed X100 is scheduled for 2025.

Admittedly, all the product line-ups presented in the new roadmap are data center AI-related, but this should also translate for gaming GPUs, which usually get released a few months after the server GPGPUs. Thus, we could see the Blackwell AI accelerators launching next summer, with the gaming models releasing at some point in fall 2024. Until then, however, Nvidia plans to release more models based on the current Hopper architecture. In this regard, the new roadmap shows an H200 model for early 2024 aimed at X86 training and inference, plus GH200 and GH200NVL models designed for training and inference on the Arm CPU architecture, as well as an L40S client X86 AI accelerator.

Besides the B100 model aimed at X86 training and inference, the upcoming Blakwell generation will feature a GB200 GPU for Arm-based AI acceleration and a GB200NVL for Arm-based training and inference, plus a B40 X86 client AI accelerator. On the gaming side, rumor has it that the RTX 5090 SKUs based on the Blackwell B100 GPUs will remain monolithic and not make the jump to MCM, which might occur with the release of the X100 architecture in 2025.

Mirroring the H200 and B100 line-ups, the Blackwell successor will include an X100 GPU for X86-based AI acceleration, a GX200 model for Arm-based AI acceleration, a GX200NVL model for Arm-based training and inference, plus an X40 client X86 AI accelerator. If Nvidia intends to get back to a yearly release cadence, the X100 family will most likely launch in the summer of 2025, while the RTX 6000 gaming series could land in late 2025.

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