We’d possibly be expecting more than usual for Nvidia’s next-gen RTX graphics cards.
Nvidia today released an updated roadmap for its GPU architectures at a briefing on H100 GPUs. According to Tom’s Hardware, the presentation showed that the company is running on a successor to the Ada Lovelace architecture, which ultimately powers the RTX 4000 series.
However, the presentation shows that Nvidia’s next-generation architecture may not arrive until 2025, as German publication HardwareLUXX also reported.
This is important because the company releases a new circle of client GPU families every two years. Therefore, the next-generation RTX cards, likely referred to as the 5000 series, were expected to arrive in the fall of 2024.
Nvidia’s new roadmap indicates that the company will increase the release cadence of RTX, at least for this cycle. It’s not hard to believe why. The company’s newest graphics cards, the RTX 4000 series, have recorded relatively low sales, with material plentiful from retailers.
That’s a massive update from more than two years ago, when Nvidia experienced an insane call from the COVID-19 pandemic from avid consumers and cryptocurrency miners. The resulting drop in demand was so significant that Nvidia faced a product oversupply scenario last year.
While Ada Lovelace’s successor may not arrive until 2025, the company already has its hands full with its other mainstream commercial GPU market. Nvidia’s roadmap shows that the company aims to release a new architecture next year to succeed Hopper, the generation that powers Nvidia. GPUs targeting generative AI. Demand for AI is so high that Nvidia expects it to make $11 billion in profit in the next quarter, up 80% from a year earlier.