Monday, February 12th 2024

NVIDIA Introduces NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU

Generative AI is driving change across industries—and to take advantage of its benefits, businesses must select the right hardware to power their workflows. The new NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU delivers the latest AI, graphics and compute technology to compact workstations, offering up to 1.5x the performance of the previous-generation RTX A2000 12 GB in professional workflows. From crafting stunning 3D environments to streamlining complex design reviews to refining industrial designs, the card's capabilities pave the way for an AI-accelerated future, empowering professionals to achieve more without compromising on performance or capabilities. Modern multi-application workflows, such as AI-powered tools, multi-display setups and high-resolution content, put significant demands on GPU memory. With 16 GB of memory in the RTX 2000 Ada, professionals can tap the latest technologies and tools to work faster and better with their data.

Powered by NVIDIA RTX technology, the new GPU delivers impressive realism in graphics with NVIDIA DLSS, delivering ultra-high-quality, photorealistic ray-traced images more than 3x faster than before. In addition, the RTX 2000 Ada enables an immersive experience for enterprise virtual-reality workflows, such as for product design and engineering design reviews. With its blend of performance, versatility and AI capabilities, the RTX 2000 Ada helps professionals across industries achieve efficiencies. Architects and urban planners can use it to accelerate visualization workflows and structural analysis, enhancing design precision. Product designers and engineers using industrial PCs can iterate rapidly on product designs with fast, photorealistic rendering and AI-powered generative design. Content creators can edit high-resolution videos and images seamlessly, and use AI for realistic visual effects and content creation assistance. And in vital embedded applications and edge computing, the RTX 2000 Ada can power real-time data processing for medical devices, optimize manufacturing processes with predictive maintenance and enable AI-driven intelligence in retail environments.
Expanding the Reach of NVIDIA RTX
Among the first to tap the power and performance of the RTX 2000 Ada are Dassault Systèmes for its SOLIDWORKS applications, Rob Wolkers Design and Engineering, and WSP. "The new RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU boasts impressive features compared to previous generations, with a compact design that offers exceptional performance and versatility," said Mark Kauffman, assistant vice president and technical lead at WSP. "Its 16 GB of RAM is a game-changer, enabling smooth loading of asset-heavy content, and its ability to run applications like Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe After Effects and Unreal Engine, as well as support path tracing, expands my creative possibilities."

"The new NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada—with its higher-efficiency, next-generation architecture, low power consumption and large frame buffer—will benefit SOLIDWORKS users," said Olivier Zegdoun, graphics applications research and development director for SOLIDWORKS at Dassault Systèmes. "It delivers excellent performance for designers and engineers to accelerate the development of innovative product experiences with full-model fidelity, even with larger datasets."

"Today's design and visualization workflows demand more advanced compute and horsepower," said Rob Wolkers, owner and senior industrial design engineer at Rob Wolkers Design and Engineering. "Equipped with next-generation architecture and a large frame buffer, the RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU improves productivity in my everyday industrial design and engineering workflows, allowing me to work with large datasets in full fidelity and generate renders with more lighting and reflection scenarios 3x faster."

Elevating Workflows With Next-Generation RTX Technology
The NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada features the latest technologies in the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPU architecture, including:
  • Third-generation RT Cores: Up to 1.7x faster ray tracing performance for high-fidelity, photorealistic rendering.
  • Fourth-generation Tensor Cores: Up to 1.8x AI throughput over the previous generation, with structured sparsity and FP8 precision to enable higher inference performance for AI-accelerated tools and applications.
  • CUDA cores: Up to 1.5x the FP32 throughput of the previous generation for significant performance improvements in graphics and compute workloads.
  • Power efficiency: Up to a 2x performance boost across professional graphics, rendering, AI and compute workloads, all within the same 70 W of power as the previous generation.
  • Immersive workflows: Up to 3x performance for virtual-reality workflows over the previous generation.
  • 16 GB of GPU memory: An expanded canvas enables users to tackle larger projects, along with support for error correction code memory to deliver greater computing accuracy and reliability for mission-critical applications.
  • DLSS 3: Delivers a breakthrough in AI-powered graphics, significantly boosting performance by generating additional high-quality frames.
  • AV1 encoder: Eighth-generation NVIDIA Encoder, aka NVENC, with AV1 support is 40% more efficient than H.264, enabling new possibilities for broadcasters, streamers and video callers.
NVIDIA RTX Enterprise Driver Delivers New Features, Adds Support for RTX 2000 Ada
The latest RTX Enterprise Driver, available now to download, includes a range of features that enhance graphics workflows, along with support for the RTX 2000 Ada.

The AI-based, standard dynamic range to high dynamic range tone-mapping feature, called Video TrueHDR, expands the color range and brightness levels when viewing content in Chrome or Edge browsers. With added support for Video Super Resolution and TrueHDR to the NVIDIA NGX software development kit, video quality of low-resolution sources can be enhanced, and SDR content can easily be converted to HDR.

Additional features in this release include:
  • TensorRT-LLM, an open-source library that optimizes and accelerates inference performance for the latest large language models on NVIDIA GPUs.
  • Video quality improvement and enhanced coding efficiency to video codecs through bit depth expansion techniques and new low-delay B frame.
  • Ability to offload work from the CPU to the GPU with the execute indirect extension NVIDIA API for quicker task completion.
  • Ability to display the GPU serial number in the NV Control Panel on desktops for easier registration to the NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise platforms.
Availability
The NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada is available now through global distribution partners such as Arrow Electronics, Ingram Micro, Leadtek, PNY, Ryoyo Electro and TD SYNNEX, and will be available from Dell Technologies, HP and Lenovo starting in April.

See the NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada at Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE World
Stop by the Dell, Lenovo and Z by HP booths at Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE World, running Feb. 11-14 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, to view live demos of Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS applications powered by the NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada.

Attend the Z by HP session on Tuesday, Feb. 13, where Wolkers will discuss the workflow used to design NEMO, the supercar of submarines.

Learn more about the NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU.
Source: NVIDIA Blog
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23 Comments on NVIDIA Introduces NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU

#2
freeagent
Sounds pretty fancy.. can it play Crysis though?
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#5
TumbleGeorge
OnasiThat’s the previous gen Ampere card.
Ups sorry but address in news didn't work, from the site.
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#7
Dr. Dro
This will make for an excellent power efficient, slot-power card once it begins to devalue. Certainly one to look out for, like the A2000.
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#8
Chrispy_
Geofrancisits just a RTX 4060 for $1200.
Yep, they've just increased the price of a 4060 16GB and slapped "ISV certification" as their justification.

Just use the Studio driver with a Geforce, it's the exact same experience in 99.9% of circumstances, and the one time you actually need an pro-series GPU, you are likely using $10,000/year software and shouldn't be using anything less than an RTX 4000 which is chump change compared to the software license.

I notice this announcement is in conjuction with Dassault (Solidworks) and HP, yet the Solidworks forums and subreddit all have hundreds of heavy Solidworks users all going "I've used both and can't tell the difference"

Personally I buy one or two pro-series cards per year just so that if anything ever comes up in mission-critical production software I can test to see if the issue occurs on the Quadro/A-series. So far I'm about 15 years into this strategy and never found a bug with Geforce that didn't also happen on the more expensive pro-tier GPUs.
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#9
Lew Zealand
Fewer cores and less memory bandwidth that the namesake GPU it replaces, I didn't expect that. Maybe the bandwidth as cache makes up for that but fewer cores is surprising.
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#10
SOAREVERSOR
Lew ZealandFewer cores and less memory bandwidth that the namesake GPU it replaces, I didn't expect that. Maybe the bandwidth as cache makes up for that but fewer cores is surprising.
You're paying for the drivers, support, certifications, and all that stuff which enterprise businesses do care and the cost of the GPUs is laughable to them so it doesn't matter.
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#11
Lew Zealand
SOAREVERSORYou're paying for the drivers, support, certifications, and all that stuff which enterprise businesses do care and the cost of the GPUs is laughable to them so it doesn't matter.
I was comparing specs to the GPU this replaces, which is mentioned in the first paragraph. The RTX A2000 also made by Nvidia. For professional work.

So what's your point?
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#12
QcRMoD
Expanding the Reach of NVIDIA RTX
Among the first to tap the power and performance of the RTX 2000 Ada are Dassault Systèmes for its SOLIDWORKS applications, Rob Wolkers Design and Engineering, and WSP. "The new RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU boasts impressive features compared to previous generations, with a compact design that offers exceptional performance and versatility," said Mark Kauffman, assistant vice president and technical lead at WSP. "Its 16 GB of RAM is a game-changer, enabling smooth loading of asset-heavy content, and its ability to run applications like Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe After Effects and Unreal Engine, as well as support path tracing, expands my creative possibilities."

"The new NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada—with its higher-efficiency, next-generation architecture, low power consumption and large frame buffer—will benefit SOLIDWORKS users," said Olivier Zegdoun, graphics applications research and development director for SOLIDWORKS at Dassault Systèmes. "It delivers excellent performance for designers and engineers to accelerate the development of innovative product experiences with full-model fidelity, even with larger datasets."

"Today's design and visualization workflows demand more advanced compute and horsepower," said Rob Wolkers, owner and senior industrial design engineer at Rob Wolkers Design and Engineering. "Equipped with next-generation architecture and a large frame buffer, the RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU improves productivity in my everyday industrial design and engineering workflows, allowing me to work with large datasets in full fidelity and generate renders with more lighting and reflection scenarios 3x faster."


Incredible. How much does nVidia pay these guys to say that $h1t?

That's all just AI driven market BS that allows nVidia to make such a move right now.
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#13
bonehead123
freeagentSounds pretty fancy.. can it play Crysis though?
but the better question is:

Can in run the "can it run crysis" app ? hehehe /s
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#14
Lycanwolfen
LOL bring DLSS to workstation graphics now.
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#15
wolf
Performance Enthusiast
Poor A2000 (Ampere) was a victim of it's own success, replaced by more expensive products because it did relatively well. Neither Ada 2000 nor 4000 SFF offer enough to even slightly tempt me, not that those eye watering prices. Engineering is impressive though.
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#16
Selaya
well tbh the only reason why the a2000's that interesting is the fact that it was a relatively popular mining card, launched at the very tail end of things.
means that there's a relatively good market of debased a2000s that havent really been abused (read: only abused for a few months until mining went the way of the dodo)

even at $450 the a2000's like, way overpriced for what it really is, but at $250 it's actually very interesting.
inotherwords i've had hoped for like, a second and a half that we'd see the ad2000 at $450 asw. but alas.
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#17
Dr. Dro
QcRMoDExpanding the Reach of NVIDIA RTX
Among the first to tap the power and performance of the RTX 2000 Ada are Dassault Systèmes for its SOLIDWORKS applications, Rob Wolkers Design and Engineering, and WSP. "The new RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU boasts impressive features compared to previous generations, with a compact design that offers exceptional performance and versatility," said Mark Kauffman, assistant vice president and technical lead at WSP. "Its 16 GB of RAM is a game-changer, enabling smooth loading of asset-heavy content, and its ability to run applications like Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe After Effects and Unreal Engine, as well as support path tracing, expands my creative possibilities."

"The new NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada—with its higher-efficiency, next-generation architecture, low power consumption and large frame buffer—will benefit SOLIDWORKS users," said Olivier Zegdoun, graphics applications research and development director for SOLIDWORKS at Dassault Systèmes. "It delivers excellent performance for designers and engineers to accelerate the development of innovative product experiences with full-model fidelity, even with larger datasets."

"Today's design and visualization workflows demand more advanced compute and horsepower," said Rob Wolkers, owner and senior industrial design engineer at Rob Wolkers Design and Engineering. "Equipped with next-generation architecture and a large frame buffer, the RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU improves productivity in my everyday industrial design and engineering workflows, allowing me to work with large datasets in full fidelity and generate renders with more lighting and reflection scenarios 3x faster."


Incredible. How much does nVidia pay these guys to say that $h1t?

That's all just AI driven market BS that allows nVidia to make such a move right now.
It's in these corporations' best interests to team up with IHV to market their own software. Solidworks is an established industry standard software.
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#18
docnorth
Dr. DroThis will make for an excellent power efficient, slot-power card once it begins to devalue. Certainly one to look out for, like the A2000.
Unfortunately when it's price starts to drop, it will maybe reach MSRP. Otherwise totally agreed.
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#19
Chrispy_
Dr. DroThis will make for an excellent power efficient, slot-power card once it begins to devalue. Certainly one to look out for, like the A2000.
It's a crying shame that Nvidia hard-lock their power limits so stringently.
Many GPUs have minimum power limits of 75% or 90% which means you can't underclock them very far.

If I pay for a 4060Ti I want to be able to run it at whatever power limit I choose, up to Nvidia's cap that exists partly to protect the card and partly to prevent lower models from cannibalising more expensive ones.
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#21
Lew Zealand
Chrispy_It's a crying shame that Nvidia hard-lock their power limits so stringently.
Many GPUs have minimum power limits of 75% or 90% which means you can't underclock them very far.

If I pay for a 4060Ti I want to be able to run it at whatever power limit I choose, up to Nvidia's cap that exists partly to protect the card and partly to prevent lower models from cannibalising more expensive ones.
And it's amazing how random the lower power limits are. I've seen Nvidia card lower limits recently range from 65-75% (just 3 cards) and AMD ones from 50-94%.

94 freakin percent!! I want the option to run that card (6800 XT) at like 75%, what the hell is a measly -6%? Especially when my 5600 XT gives the option of 50%, which is overkill as you're generally start killing performance below 20-30% after a good undervolt.
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#22
QcRMoD
Dr. DroIt's in these corporations' best interests to team up with IHV to market their own software. Solidworks is an established industry standard software.
For sure they do. They’re basically carrying the perfect advertising campaign. « 16GB vRAM is a game-changer ». Funny that he’d use this exact formulation…
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#23
Chrispy_
Selayashuntmod
sadly, your warranty gets shunted too.
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