If you own an older Nvidia graphics card, though, things are getting tight. According to the release notes for CUDA 12.8 — Nvidia’s programming interface that allows its GPUs to be used for ...

plus a couple of Quadro and Titan workstation cards—are still currently supported by Nvidia's December Game Ready driver package, the end of new CUDA feature support suggests that these GPUs ...

NVIDIA’s GB202 die shot reveals essential details ... Multiprocessors (SMs), resulting in a maximum of 192 SMs and 24,576 CUDA cores when fully enabled. In the RTX 5090, 21,760 of those cores ...

As a point of comparison, the GeForce RTX 4090 has 128 SMs, giving it 16,384 CUDA cores, meaning the RTX 5090 has a lot more parallel processing power. Remarkably, Nvidia has also managed to get ...