According to various rumors, Nvidia’s new generation of gaming graphics cards should hit the market after Christmas, with an unveiling at CES 2025 in January. It is said that the plan is to replace almost all current-generation GeForce RTX 4000 cards on the market with the new models very quickly, instead of the usually slower ” trickling down’ of the new generation from high-end to the mainstream. Now there are signs indicating that Nvidia really intends to move to the next generation very aggressively.
Nvidia has reportedly discontinued production of almost all GPUs of the Ada Lovelace generation. For example, processors usually continue to be produced long after the release of their successors, but recently Nvidia seems to have a policy of cutting the old generation quite aggressively in order to quickly sell out of stock.
According to information from the Bord Channels forum, where leaks from the Chinese and Taiwanese computer industry often appear, Nvidia has already moved production capacities from the Ada Lovelace generation GPU (GeForce RTX 4000) to the new generation, which should be released as GeForce RTX 5000 and is based on new Blackwell architecture. However, the chips themselves will be produced by TSMC’s 4nm process like Ada Lovelace, so Nvidia probably uses the same lines, which allows quite flexibly to decide when to switch from one generation to another, if everything is already prepared for its production (but it is, of course, not only about silicon itself, but also its encapsulation, PCB production and the like).
Ada Lovelace has been out of production for a while
According to Boards Channel, production of Ada Lovelace/RTX 4000 GPUs or graphics cards has actually ended and the company no longer produces the AD102 (GeForce RTX 4090), AD103 (RTX 4080, RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super) or AD104 (RTX 4070, 4070 Ti, 4070 Super) and not even the AD106 (GeForce RTX 4060 Ti). The operations that produced them are already said to be working on the new Blackwell GPUs or are in the process of doing so. This means that the supply of the mentioned models can evaporate quite quickly on the market, unless there are unexpectedly large stocks accumulated in warehouses somewhere, as was the case after the collapses of the cryptomining fever.
This should help get the new generation onto the market quickly, but on the other hand, it may limit opportunities to buy the outgoing old generation graphics at some deep discount, as cards will run out before retailers are forced to discount. At the moment, there is said to be a relatively small amount of AD102 and GeForce RTX 4090 stocks in distribution, but there is still no shortage of the others. However, it is said that there can only be stock for about two months of sales.
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There is one exception to this rapid end of the Ada Lovelace generation, namely the AD107 chip and graphics based on it, whose production is said to continue on a single line. This GPU is used in the GeForce RTX 4060 graphics, and it looks like it will not be discontinued yet, but will continue to be sold in parallel with the Blackwell / GeForce RTX 5000 generation, at least for some time.
This is probably because the new GeForce RTX 5060 model (which could be released as early as March) will be slightly higher in performance and price and will not actually replace the RTX 4060 card. Because of this, it will remain in production and will form a cheaper alternative at the bottom of the menu (it is not yet known whether another RTX 5050 will come out and not replace it), similar to the AMD Radeon RX 6600. According to Boards Channels, however, the continuation of AD107 production may be ” temporarily”.
Boards Channel also reports that the January release is now apparently final and Nvidia has started the gears to such an extent that no further delay is likely. So the new generation of GeForce is almost a done deal.
Resources: Boards Channels, VideoCardz
Source: www.cnews.cz
