Wednesday, November 30th 2022
NVIDIA Gives RTX A6000 "Ada" Professional Graphics a Quiet Launch, Starting $7377
NVIDIA is ready to launch its RTX A6000 series "Ada" professional-visualization graphics cards. These cards are targeted at the same market demographic as the NVIDIA Quadro series of the old—serious 3D content creation. The RTX A6000 leads the pack, and is based on the 4 nm "AD102" silicon (the same one powering the GeForce RTX 4090). The A6000 is better endowed than the RTX 4090 at the silicon-level, although operating at lower GPU clock-speeds, for its tighter 300 W power-limit (compared to 450 W of the RTX 4090).
The A6000 "Ada" is endowed with 18,176 CUDA cores across 142 SM, compared to the 16,384 CUDA cores across 128 SM of the RTX 4090. It also gets a higher number of Tensor cores, at 568. The defining differentiator between the A6000 and RTX 4090 has to be memory, with the pro-vis card getting 48 GB of ECC GDDR6 memory across the chip's 384-bit memory bus, clocked at 20 Gbps (960 GB/s memory bandwidth); compared to the 24 GB of 21 Gbps GDDR6X (1008 GB/s) of the RTX 4090. Also, the card enables all three NVDEC and NVENC video hardware-accelerators physically present on the AD102, for six independent accelerated transcoding streams.
The card features a 16-pin ATX 12VHPWR connector, and probably includes a 3x 8-pin to 16-pin adapter, as the card's typical board power is just 300 W. The reference board features a 2-slot design with a high-density channel-type heatsink with vapor-chamber plate; and a lateral-flow blower. There is no NVLink support. Leadtek, PNY, and ELSA are expected to be the board partners for this card. Both PNY and Leadtek put out pricing, with the PNY card being cheaper at USD $7,377.
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The A6000 "Ada" is endowed with 18,176 CUDA cores across 142 SM, compared to the 16,384 CUDA cores across 128 SM of the RTX 4090. It also gets a higher number of Tensor cores, at 568. The defining differentiator between the A6000 and RTX 4090 has to be memory, with the pro-vis card getting 48 GB of ECC GDDR6 memory across the chip's 384-bit memory bus, clocked at 20 Gbps (960 GB/s memory bandwidth); compared to the 24 GB of 21 Gbps GDDR6X (1008 GB/s) of the RTX 4090. Also, the card enables all three NVDEC and NVENC video hardware-accelerators physically present on the AD102, for six independent accelerated transcoding streams.
28 Comments on NVIDIA Gives RTX A6000 "Ada" Professional Graphics a Quiet Launch, Starting $7377
I don't want to run dual systems. Or even dual video cards.
However, it does suck that there's no NVLink support. While I'm nowhere near using 48Gb VRAM for rendering at present, it would be nice to have the NVLink option on future generations in case the need for more pooled VRAM is needed. I guess there just isn't much of a demand for NVLink so they decided to cut it.
Yea these cards may be "latest & greatest" etc, but the old Quadro cards were not nearly as much when they launched, even today, the last 48GB version was only ~$5.3k.....
nGreedia seems to have upgraded their pharma to the next level..:kookoo:..:cry:..:eek:
pass
Are they still present on European markets? :confused:
The card should sustain decent clocks throughout, though, even the 4090 is known for using a lot less than its TDP under regular load (unlike the 3090, which constantly hits its power limit).
Plus I don't think there are any motherboards big enough with appropriately spaced slots to support 4x 4090s and the huge custom water cooling setup that would probably be needed to prevent too much heat from building up in the case. So we're stuck with having to buy more 2-slot workstation cards if we desire more CUDA cores for more speed and need 3-4 of them to fit on the same board without any space issues. This could be one of the possible reasons behind Nvidia making the gaming cards ridiculously huge & power hungry in comparison to their workstation cards.
You can easily fit multiple 4090s with single slot blocks and a manifold configuration. It's too bad there's not more professional products on the market instead of kiddy RGB junk.
Nice card though.
Though that naming scheme wow, very poor imho.