NVIDIA AD102 “Ada” Packs Over 75 Billion Transistors

NVIDIA’s next-generation AD102 “Ada” GPU is turning out to be a monster, with a supposed semiconductor count of more than 75 billion. This would put over 2.6 times the 28.3 billion semiconductors of the current-gen GA102 silicon. NVIDIA is supposedly fabricating the AD102 on the TSMC N5 (5 nm EUV) hub, which offers a huge semiconductor thickness inspired by the Samsung 8LPP (8 nm DUV) hub on which the GA102 is constructed. The 8LPP offers 44.56 million semiconductors for every mm² pass-on region (Mr/mm²), while the N5 offers an incredible 134 MTr/mm², which finds a place with the semiconductor count gain. This would place its kick-the-bucket region in the neighborhood of 560 mm². The AD102 is supposed to drive very good quality RTX 40-series SKUs in the RTX 4090-series and RTX 4080-series.