GPU architecture, named instead of a card
An architecture is a chip generation: Ampere, Hopper, Blackwell. Naming one rather than a card model covers hardware released afterwards, and it names the real constraint, which is the formats and the tensor core generation. As of 2026-09-22.
| Statement | What it fixes |
|---|---|
| A card model | Memory, formats and bandwidth, for one product |
| A card generation range | A family of products, loosely |
| An architecture | The formats and core generation |
| A memory figure alone | Memory, and nothing else |
Inclusion rule. Ways a repository can say which hardware a figure applies to. The bare figure is included because it is the most common and the least useful. Order. From the most specific product naming to the least.
1Architectures describe the constraint
What usually stops a run is not capacity but support: a format the card cannot execute, or a kernel that needs a particular core generation. An architecture name says that directly.
One card in this register names three architectures beside a memory figure to two decimal places, which is the most complete hardware statement here in both dimensions.
2A card model still carries more than a number
Another repository names a specific consumer card with a timing and an output. Every part of that is falsifiable by somebody who owns one, which is worth more than a figure nobody can test.
The register quotes whichever form the vendor used rather than normalising them. Converting a named card into gigabytes loses the half of the statement that was not about memory.
3Where hardware is identified here
One family names chip architectures, three name card models, three name a card size and four publish gigabytes with nothing named beside them. Three publish no figure and no card at all.
The register quotes whichever form the vendor used. Converting a named card into a number would drop the formats and the bandwidth, and converting a number into a card would invent hardware nobody mentioned.
A reading note, not an entry: no vendor value appears on this page. Where the register records this term for a particular release, it is on the hardware column and on that family's own page. Nearby terms: Batch size, Cold start.