NVIDIA Readies Rubin-based GeForce RTX 60-series with Massive RT Performance Gains

The rumor mill has started grinding about NVIDIA’s next-generation gaming GPU, and it looks like NVIDIA does not want to allow the current market environment to get in the way of implementing its product roadmap, with a roughly 2-year GeForce generation product launch cadence. The next-generation GeForce RTX 60-series will be powered by the “Rubin” graphics architecture. “Rubin” already debuted on NVIDIA’s bread-winning AI GPU series, and is making its way to GeForce, reports RedGaming Tech.

The first slice of rumors about GeForce RTX 60-series predicts that NVIDIA will stick to a more conservative approach with foundry nodes, and not go with a sub-2 nm nanosheet-based node. GeForce “Rubin” will be built on some variant of the current TSMC 3 nm FinFET node. They need not be the same N3 node that’s in use by Apple, Intel, and others; and NVIDIA might collaborate with TSMC on an exclusive variant just the way it created the NVIDIA 4N node, derived from TSMC N5. Chips in the series will follow the numbering scheme “GR20x,” with examples being “GR202” for the biggest part powering the flagship product. The 3 nm node will allow NVIDIA to maintain GPU clock speeds ranging between high 2 GHz and low 3 GHz, which is a minor increase over the current “Blackwell.”