Architecture

NVIDIA Ada Lovelace Architecture

Fourth-Gen Tensor Cores

Technologies transforming AI, such as NVIDIA DLSS and the recently released NVIDIA DLSS 3, are made possible and expedited by NVIDIA Tensor Cores.

Ada’s latest fourth-generation Tensor Cores, which utilize the new FP8 Transformer Engine originally seen in our Hopper H100 datacenter GPU, boost throughput by up to 5X, to 1.4 Tensor-petaFLOPS. These Tensor Cores are incredibly fast.

Third-Gen RT Cores

Ray Tracing Cores (RT Cores) are specialized processing cores on the GPU that NVIDIA developed to address workloads involving high-speed ray tracing. With their creation, real-time ray tracing became possible.

RT-TFLOP speed is increased by more than two times with Ada’s third-generation RT Cores, which have double the throughput of ray-triangle intersections.

the new RT Cores: the Displaced Micro-Mesh (DMM) and the Opacity Micromap (OMM). Using alpha-tested textures—which are frequently used for fences, particles, and foliage—the OMM Engine allows for substantially faster ray tracing. To enable real-time ray tracing of geometrically complicated scenes, the DMM Engine offers up to 10X quicker Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) build time with up to 20X less BVH storage space.

Shader Execution Reordering

Complex ray tracing requires computing the effects of multiple rays striking various material types in a scene, which leads to a series of divergent, inefficient workloads for shaders.

These formerly inefficient workloads are dynamically reorganized into much more efficient ones using Shader Execution Reordering (SER) technology. SER can increase in-game frame rates by up to 25% and shader performance for ray tracing tasks by up to 3X.

DLSS 3

The innovative NVIDIA DLSS 3 graphics technology significantly increases performance using artificial intelligence. With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), DLSS 3 produces more high-quality frames thanks to the new fourth-generation Tensor Cores and Optical Flow Accelerator on GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs.

AV1 Encoders

New eighth-generation NVIDIA Encoders with AV1 encoding are featured in graphics cards based on the Ada architecture, opening up a world of new possibilities for streamers, broadcasters, and video calls.

Users streaming at 1080p can now expand to 1440p while maintaining the same bandwidth and quality because of its 40% efficiency over H.264.