Talk about the future GeForce RTX 50 It may seem a bit hasty because, in reality, we are still waiting for the entry models of the current generation to arrive on the market, the RTX 4060 (which will debut this month) and the RTX 4050. With them, perhaps in the absence of some revision Having improved them, we can consider the family completed, which, let us remember, was initially presented nearly nine months ago, in September 2022.
However, a reference shown by Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, at the Computex 2023 kick-off event, has triggered rumors and speculation about it. It was, specifically, a reference to the still unpublished Hopper Next architecture. Let’s remember, for some context, that Hopper is currently the company’s architecture for data centers and other advanced computing platforms.
However, if we go back in time, you will remember that when Ampere was already aiming to be the architecture of the (then future) RTX 30, the architecture called to succeed it was expected to be Hopper. However, some time later we learned that it would be Ada Lovelace who would succeed Ampere, since Hopper would be delayed with respect to the initial plans. Thus, there are many who think that Hopper will be the architecture chosen for future GeForce RTX 50.
As a general rule, the speeches given by CEOs when they get on stage they have between nothing and absolutely no improvisation regarding the data they share. In other words, if Huang mentioned Hopper Next, which we can understand is nothing more than an evolution of the current Hopper, aimed at large systems, it is because this iteration of said technology will play a very important role in the medium term for NVIDIA.
Thus, several analysts and experts in the field have decided to join the dotted lines and the conclusion they have reached, and although we will still have to wait to confirm it, it seems plausible, is that Next Hopper is none other than Blackwell, the code name for the next line of desktop GPUs of which, for some time now, it has been rumored that it will make the leap to three nanometers and that it will remain with a monolithic design. And, of course, we can take it for granted that a good part of its improvements with respect to the current generation will come not so much in terms of brute force (there will also be something, of course), but of even more specialization in artificial intelligence.
Thus, when the company itself already “advances” (albeit apocryphally) its plans with respect to Hopper Next, that is, Blackwell, we can conclude that NVIDIA has decided to repeat the life cycle of two years per generation. , which makes us hope that the future GeForce RTX 50 will see the light of day sometime in 2024probably throughout the fourth quarter of the year.
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