Lovelace (microarchitecture)

Lovelace is the codename for Nvidia's GPU microarchitecture that will succeed Ampere. It is named after the British mathematician Ada Lovelace. In the original schedule the Hopper generation should have come first but as press experts are assuming in December 2020 due to the growth of AMDs offers the Lovelace design saw priorization.[1] The design is said to found the base for at least a new generation of GPU cards of Nvidia's established 'RTX' family. Leaks providing quite non-reliable preliminary data are currently claiming there will be a top model with signature AD102 that might have up to 144 streaming multiprocessors (SMs) leading to a supposed amount of 18,432 shader units. As of now its unclear if HBM will be combined with that design. Experts expect that first designs might reach markets no earlier than 2022.