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Products

  • GeForce, consumer-oriented graphics processing products
  • Quadro, computer-aided design and digital content creation workstation graphics processing products
  • NVS, multi-display business graphics solution
  • Tegra, a SoC series for mobile devices
  • Tesla, GPGPU for high-end image generation applications in professional and scientific fields
  • DGX - Nvidia produced servers and workstations - GPGPU to accelerate deep learning applications

Development boards

GPU Microarchitectures

Micro-architecture Released Segment
Maxwell 2014 General purpose
Pascal 2016 For consumer
Volta 2017 For servers and datacenters
Turing 2018 General purpose
Ampere 2020 All
Hopper 2022 All

Hopper

  • GA: Q3, 2022
  • Transformer Engines to accelerate ML - Expected to have 6x improvement in performance for transformers-based networks.
  • TSMC 4nm

CPU Microarchitectures

CPU Architecture Launched Process
Denver ARMv8.0-A 2014
Carmel ARMv8.2-A 2018 TSMC 12nm

Server CPUs

Roadmap

NVIDIA software

  • NGC - Nvidia GPU cloud - GPU-Optimized Software - DL, ML, and HPC Workflows

Other hardware companies