Launched | September 20, 2022 |
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Designed by | Nvidia |
Manufactured by | |
Fabrication process | TSMC N4 |
Product Series | |
Server/datacenter |
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Specifications | |
L1 cache | 256 KB (per SM) |
L2 cache | 50 MB |
Memory support | HBM3 |
PCIe support | PCI Express 5.0 |
Media Engine | |
Encoder(s) supported | NVENC |
History | |
Predecessor | Ampere |
Variant | Ada Lovelace (consumer and professional) |
Successor | Blackwell |
Hopper is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia. It is designed for datacenters and is used alongside the Lovelace microarchitecture. It is the latest generation of the line of products formerly branded as Nvidia Tesla, now Nvidia Data Centre GPUs.
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, a faster memory subsystem, and a transformer acceleration engine.