Alleged NVIDIA AD102 PCB Drawing Reveals NVLink is Here to Stay, Launch Timelines Revealed

An alleged technical drawing of the PCB of reference-design NVIDIA "Ada" AD102 silicon was leaked to the web, courtesy of Igor's Lab. It reveals a large GPU pad that's roughly the size of the GA102 (the size of the fiberglass substrate or package, only, not the die); surrounded by twelve memory chips, which are likely GDDR6X. There are also provision for at least 24 power phases, although not all of them are populated by sets of chokes and DrMOS in the final products (a few of them end up vacant).

We also spy the 16-pin ATX 3.0 power connector that's capable of delivering up to 600 W of power; and four display outputs, including a USB-C in lieu of a larger connector (such as DP or HDMI). A curious thing to note is that the card continues to have an NVLink connector. Multi-GPU is dead, which means the NVLink on the reference design will likely be rudimentary in the GeForce RTX product (unless used for implicit multi-GPU). The connector may play a bigger role in the professional-visualization graphics cards (RTX AD-series) based on this silicon.

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