Hopper (microarchitecture)

Hopper
LaunchedSeptember 20, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-09-20)
Designed byNvidia
Manufactured by
Fabrication processTSMC N4
Product Series
Server/datacenter
Specifications
L1 cache256 KB (per SM)
L2 cache50 MB
Memory supportHBM3
PCIe supportPCI Express 5.0
Media Engine
Encoder(s) supportedNVENC
History
PredecessorAmpere
VariantAda Lovelace (consumer and professional)
SuccessorBlackwell
4 NVIDIA H100 GPUs

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.