NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs will succeed Hopper in 2024: GB100, GB102 and GB202 GPUs in the pipeline
While answering a question at the Arete Tech Conference 2022, Ian Buck of NVIDIA reiterated that the company is fully committed to launching a major GPGPU architecture every 2 years and Hopper was released this year. This was in response to potential new developments in 2023 and confirms that the Blackwell GPU architecture will be launched in 2024 (since we know that is the architecture to succeed Hopper), which was the expected timeline based on NVIDIA’s historical cadence anyways. NVIDIA Hopper was the world’s fastest 4nm GPU at launch and the world’s first with HBM3 memory. It features higher specifications than even the NVIDIA RTX 4090 (which contains 16,384 CUDA cores) at a net total of 18,432 CUDA cores. Blackwell will provide significant generational improvement over Hopper (as has always been the case). Four NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs have already been confirmed in a prior leak. A: …..We are making new GP architectures every two years. We have committed to a new CPU architecture also every two years and it was very exciting to launch Hopper this year." ……“So, I think, it’s going to be exciting, it is exciting and this Hopper transition is just yet another turn of the crank the 2023 will bring even more and we will – and again, 2024, happy to keep coming back to you guys and telling you what the next thing is as we.” -Ian Buck, VP and GM, Datacenter Business, NVIDIA via Seeking Alpha The text string that was initially found in the dump is also given below (courtesy of Videocardz): Following is a short bio taken from the Wikipedia page of Dr. David Blackwell. Not much else is known about the Blackwell GPU series at this point (obviously) since it is nothing more than a string of text at this point. All we know is that this series is likely going to be slotted in after the Hopper GPUs (which was released in parallel with the mainstream Ada Lovelace GPUs). It is now confirmed that this nomenclature does not refer to consumer GPUs but refers to the Hopper successor.
