NVIDIA: The AD104 chip on RTX4080 with more transistors than GA102 on RTX4090

NVIDIA: The AD104 chip on RTX4080 with more transistors than GA102 on RTX4090.

Recently, NVIDIA released the Ada Lovelace GPU with 4nm architecture, and the first batch of three graphics cards, GeForce RTX 4090 / RTX 4080 16GB / RTX 4080 12GB, are equipped with AD102, AD103, and AD104 chips.

Ryan Smith of AnandTech has already obtained this. Complete information on several chips.

The areas of AD102, AD103, and AD104 are 608mm², 378.6mm² and 294.5mm² respectively, and the corresponding transistor numbers are 76.3 billion, 45.9 billion and 35.8 billion respectively.

The transistor density of AD103 and AD104 is the same, and the transistor density of AD102 is slightly higher. In terms of quantity, AD104 has 7.5 billion more transistors than GA102.

NVIDIA Ada Lovelace Architecture GPU Specifications Comparison

model	AD102	AD103	AD104
process node	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N
Number of transistors	76.3 billion	45.9 billion	35.8 billion
Chip size	608mm²	378.6mm²	294.5mm²
SM quantity	144	80	60
Number of CUDAs	18432	10240	7680
Number of Tensors	576	320	240
RT quantity	144	80	60
Number of ROPs	192	112	80
L2 cache	96MB	64MB	48MB
Corresponding graphics card	RTX 4090	RTX 4080 16GB	RTX 4080 12GB

Nvidia has made some architectural changes, such as removing NVLink on Ada Lovelace GPUs, freeing up more space.

At the same time, the L2 cache of the Ada Lovelace architecture GPU has also undergone great changes, and the capacity has been significantly increased.

The Ada Lovelace architecture uses the same TSMC (TSMC) 4N process as the Hopper architecture.

According to HKEPC, it is not the same as the N4 process generally believed to be a reduced version on the 5nm process node.