According to a supply chain report of DIGITIMES, the performance of radiator manufacturers in Taiwan, China will greatly benefit from the next generation GPU of NVIDIA and AMD in the second half of 2022 Obviously, with the growth of performance and power consumption, the demand of graphics card manufacturers for high-performance cooling components will also increase synchronously. Although there is little difference between material selection and manufacturing process, the high-quality and complex parts and components with fine workmanship can still bring huge profits to suppliers.
First, for the legendary AMD radeon RX 7000 series product line, its rDNA 3 "Navi 31" flagship GPU will provide 12288 stream processors / 48 working clusters, which is more than twice the commercial rDNA 2 architecture.
Secondly, the ADA Lovelace "ad102" flagship GPU adopted by NVIDIA geforce RTX 40 series has up to 18432 CUDA cores (excluding RT light tracing / tensor tensor units).
In the case that small chip packaging has greatly increased the scale of GPU, the problem of power consumption and heating will become more prominent - the chip area of RTX 4090 may reach 600 m ㎡, and the power consumption also reaches the upper limit of 600W of PCIe 5.0 / 12vhpwr interface.
In the original report, the two cooling system design companies discussed how the new product lines and professional knowledge of the two GPU manufacturers will be needed by more people.
Among them, auras technology focuses on the soaking plate used by high-end graphics cards. The official website also clearly shows the standard graphics card cooling solution for PC system.
Generally, high-end graphics cards need to use fairly thick heat sink + inserted heat pipe, but in recent years, the adoption rate of soaking plate is also increasing (especially in the field of notebook computers).
As for sun max, the company invested $2million last year to develop fan technology and applied for a number of patents.
Its customized solutions cover the fields of computers, automobiles, servers, intelligent fans and network devices, and the company is quite optimistic about its future performance.
Finally, although amd / NVIDIA has not officially announced the lack of price and release date of the new series of graphics cards, we are hopeful to welcome their arrival before the end of 2022.
It is rumored that NVIDIA may release ADA Lovelace at any time in the third quarter of this year (July September), and the radiator suppliers have obviously made corresponding preparations for this.