Hopper (microarchitecture)
GPU microarchitecture designed by Nvidia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hopper is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia. It is designed for datacenters and is parallel to Ada Lovelace. It is the latest generation of the line of products formerly branded as Nvidia Tesla and since rebranded as Nvidia Data Center GPUs.
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Launched | September 20, 2022; 22 months ago (2022-09-20) |
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Designed by | Nvidia |
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Fabrication process | TSMC 4N |
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Server/datacenter |
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L1 cache | 256 KB (per SM) |
L2 cache | 50 MB |
Memory support | HBM3 |
PCIe support | PCI Express 5.0 |
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Encoder(s) supported | NVENC |
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Predecessor | Ampere |
Variant | Ada Lovelace (consumer and professional) |
Successor | Blackwell |
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Named for computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper, the Hopper architecture was leaked in November 2019 and officially revealed in March 2022. It improves upon its predecessors, the Turing and Ampere microarchitectures, featuring a new streaming multiprocessor and a faster memory subsystem.