Tuesday, September 20th 2022
NVIDIA's New Ada Lovelace RTX GPU Arrives for Designers and Creators
Opening a new era of neural graphics that marries AI and simulation, NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA RTX 6000 workstation GPU, based on its new NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture. With the new NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPU delivering real-time rendering, graphics and AI, designers and engineers can drive cutting-edge, simulation-based workflows to build and validate more sophisticated designs. Artists can take storytelling to the next level, creating more compelling content and building immersive virtual environments. Scientists, researchers and medical professionals can accelerate the development of life-saving medicines and procedures with supercomputing power on their workstations—all at up to 2-4x the performance of the previous-generation RTX A6000.
Designed for neural graphics and advanced virtual world simulation, the RTX 6000, with Ada generation AI and programmable shader technology, is the ideal platform for creating content and tools for the metaverse with NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise. Incorporating the latest generations of render, AI and shader technologies and 48 GB of GPU memory, the RTX 6000 enables users to create incredibly detailed content, develop complex simulations and form the building blocks required to construct compelling and engaging virtual worlds.
"Neural graphics is driving the next wave of innovation in computer graphics and will change the way content is created and experienced," said Bob Pette, vice president of professional visualization at NVIDIA. "The NVIDIA RTX 6000 is ready to power this new era for engineers, designers and scientists to meet the need for demanding content-creation, rendering, AI and simulation workloads that are required to build worlds in the metaverse."
Global Leaders Turn to NVIDIA RTX 6000
"NVIDIA's professional GPUs helped us deliver an experience like none other to baseball fans everywhere by bringing legends of the game back to life with AI-powered facial animation," said Michael Davies, senior vice president of field operations at Fox Sports. "We're excited to take advantage of the incredible graphics and AI performance provided by the RTX 6000, which will help us showcase the next chapter of live sports broadcast."
"Broadcasters are increasingly adopting software and compute to help build the next generation of TV stations," said Andrew Cross, CEO of Grass Valley. "The new workstation GPUs are truly game changing, providing us with over 300% performance increases—allowing us to improve the quality of video and the value of our products."
"The new NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture will enable designers and engineers to continue pushing the boundaries of engineering simulations," said Dipankar Choudhury, Ansys Fellow and HPC Center of Excellence lead. "The RTX 6000 GPU's larger L2 cache, significant increase in number and performance of next-gen cores and increased memory bandwidth will result in impressive performance gains for the broad Ansys application portfolio."
Next-Generation RTX Technology
Powered by the NVIDIA Ada architecture, the world's most advanced GPU architecture, the NVIDIA RTX 6000 features state-of-the-art NVIDIA RTX technology. Features include:
The NVIDIA RTX 6000 workstation GPU will be available from global distribution partners and manufacturers starting in December.
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Designed for neural graphics and advanced virtual world simulation, the RTX 6000, with Ada generation AI and programmable shader technology, is the ideal platform for creating content and tools for the metaverse with NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise. Incorporating the latest generations of render, AI and shader technologies and 48 GB of GPU memory, the RTX 6000 enables users to create incredibly detailed content, develop complex simulations and form the building blocks required to construct compelling and engaging virtual worlds.
Global Leaders Turn to NVIDIA RTX 6000
"NVIDIA's professional GPUs helped us deliver an experience like none other to baseball fans everywhere by bringing legends of the game back to life with AI-powered facial animation," said Michael Davies, senior vice president of field operations at Fox Sports. "We're excited to take advantage of the incredible graphics and AI performance provided by the RTX 6000, which will help us showcase the next chapter of live sports broadcast."
"Broadcasters are increasingly adopting software and compute to help build the next generation of TV stations," said Andrew Cross, CEO of Grass Valley. "The new workstation GPUs are truly game changing, providing us with over 300% performance increases—allowing us to improve the quality of video and the value of our products."
"The new NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture will enable designers and engineers to continue pushing the boundaries of engineering simulations," said Dipankar Choudhury, Ansys Fellow and HPC Center of Excellence lead. "The RTX 6000 GPU's larger L2 cache, significant increase in number and performance of next-gen cores and increased memory bandwidth will result in impressive performance gains for the broad Ansys application portfolio."
Next-Generation RTX Technology
Powered by the NVIDIA Ada architecture, the world's most advanced GPU architecture, the NVIDIA RTX 6000 features state-of-the-art NVIDIA RTX technology. Features include:
- Third-generation RT Cores: Up to 2x the throughput of the previous generation with the ability to concurrently run ray tracing with either shading or denoising capabilities.
- Fourth-generation Tensor Cores: Up to 2x faster AI training performance than the previous generation with expanded support for the FP8 data format.
- CUDA cores: Up to 2x the single-precision floating point throughput compared to the previous generation.
- GPU memory: Features 48 GB of GDDR6 memory for working with the largest 3D models, render images, simulation and AI datasets.
- Virtualization: Will support NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU) software for multiple high-performance virtual workstation instances, enabling remote users to share resources and drive high-end design, AI and compute workloads.
- XR: Features 3x the video encoding performance of the previous generation, for streaming multiple simultaneous XR sessions using NVIDIA CloudXR.
The NVIDIA RTX 6000 workstation GPU will be available from global distribution partners and manufacturers starting in December.
24 Comments on NVIDIA's New Ada Lovelace RTX GPU Arrives for Designers and Creators
Moaning about this in thread after thread isn't going to speed the certification process up for you or anyone else.
In fact, if the actual engineers doing the certification were reading all these threads, they wouldn't be doing their jobs in the most efficient manner, would they?
Feel free to keep prattling on about this but either me or someone else is going to echo the same statement. They don't have the certification yet. That doesn't mean it can't be offered in the future.
Remember, these cards aren't being loaded onto a FedEx delivery truck right now.
In reality it's not like quadro (or whatever name we should use to distinguish workstation gpus now, like what the fuck nvidia!?) needs the higher bandwith when they'll be used in virtualized scenarios or with lower refresh rates and can leverage DSC, but would still have been nice to see it implemented.
There's also the possibility that DP 2.0 certification hinges on some sort of software support (firmware or driver) that NVIDIA must provide.
That might explain why no AIB partner cards have any mention of DP 2.0 either.
There's a small chance that NVIDIA completely forgot about DisplayPort 2.0 and neglected to include that technology on their Ada generation cards despite having enough presence of mind to include HDMI 2.1.
What do you think the odds are that NVIDIA thought that they could just skip DisplayPort 2.0 with their 40 series cards?
With or without VESA certificate, if the hardware is capable, it should be mentioned without second thoughts, just like HDMI 2.1 port worked from the first day. Certification simply brings a formal recognition that the industry standard was implemented. The port itself should work anyway, if Nvidia supports it in software too.
No one sane would be hiding such important video capability of GPU that is expected to work once VESA blessing is available. This makes me think that nothing was submitted for DP 2.0 certification and 4000 cards will run on older DP 1.4a.
Intel's lowest card, A380, has DP 2.0 port at 40 Gbps...
It will be interesting to see how NVIDIA navigates through the next few weeks before the first shipments start. Perhaps more interesting will be how they react after AMD and Intel make their next moves.
But removing NVLink from the RTX 6000 can convince the people who benefit from that technology to stay with the old gen cards. And the same can be said for the ones who used it with the 3090.
Unless they found another way to scale the memory of multiple gpus in the same way of NVLink.
Even if a new card can complete a rendering faster, it is worthless for some people or studios if it doesn't have enough memory.
By the way, programs like Octane, 3ds Max, Maya, Blender, Redshift, DaVinci Resolve, etcetera, can use NVLink. If you think that programs like Max and Maya are the standard tools used in the videogame and movie industry, it's easy to understand that this technology has its benefits and can be a must have for someone.
For the scientific calculations can be even more valuable.
So, I can't believe that they are ditching it like that and without explaining why. I'm curious to know what is going on.
Hardware SLI no longer needs to be a thing as it can now be done in software through the exist card bus.