NVIDIA Gives RTX A6000 "Ada" Professional Graphics a Quiet Launch, Starting $7377

[SOAREVERSOR]

Might as well buy 4 4090's at that price point.

Depends on your use case. The point of these is the software they are certified for and the driver support. That sort of software is so expensive the hardware isn't your worry. Also time is worth so much money at that point hardware cost doesn't matter either.

Very true + it would be a LOT faster, but for the iray rendering I do, if a scene exceeds 24Gb VRAM, it won't matter how many 4090s I have since it wouldn't fit on any of the cards and would just end up getting dropped to the cpu. So in a sense, you're paying extra for a much larger chunk of VRAM.
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.

Not really. The workstation cards have specific drivers and are certified for software that the desktop cards just aren't and nobody is going to use a desktop card for that stuff. The workstation cards are also clocked lower.

 

[MentalAcetylide]

Depends on your use case. The point of these is the software they are certified for and the driver support. That sort of software is so expensive the hardware isn't your worry. Also time is worth so much money at that point hardware cost doesn't matter either.


Not really. The workstation cards have specific drivers and are certified for software that the desktop cards just aren't and nobody is going to use a desktop card for that stuff. The workstation cards are also clocked lower.

You would be surprised. I know of a LOT of people, some of whom produce 3D content for sale, that use desktop cards for rendering. Hell, the one guy runs a render farm that uses 4 RTX 3090s. For them, speed matters more since they have a very good idea of how much VRAM they need so obviously its a no-brainer that they're not going to fork out an extra $1,000+ for a lower clocked card. RTX A5000 vs RTX 3090, for example, and they will pick the 3090 every time. I also use an RTX A6000 + RTX 3090 together to speed up renders when its needed. AFAIK, for Iray rendering CUDA core count is king: the more you have, the faster the renders will be completed.

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

You would be surprised. I know of a LOT of people, some of whom produce 3D content for sale, that use desktop cards for rendering. Hell, the one guy runs a render farm that uses 4 RTX 3090s. For them, speed matters more since they have a very good idea of how much VRAM they need so obviously its a no-brainer that they're not going to fork out an extra $1,000+ for a lower clocked card. RTX A5000 vs RTX 3090, for example, and they will pick the 3090 every time. I also use an RTX A6000 + RTX 3090 together to speed up renders when its needed. AFAIK, for Iray rendering CUDA core count is king: the more you have, the faster the renders will be completed.

Still ain't certified for stuff like Solidworks which is what you are paying through the teeth for. At the enterprise level they don't care. This cost is peanuts to them.

 

[MentalAcetylide]

Still ain't certified for stuff like Solidworks which is what you are paying through the teeth for. At the enterprise level they don't care. This cost is peanuts to them.

Yes, enterprise is a totally different story where usually IT costs & downtime have to be factored in, so yeah, with stuff like that the extra money for those cards would end up saving them money in the long run.