Notably, the A6000 is using GDDR6 here and not the faster GDDR6X used in the GeForce cards, as 16Gb density RAM chips are not available for the latter memory at this time. The card uses a fully-enabled GA102 GPU – the same chip used in the GeForce RTX 3080 & 3090 – and with 48GB of memory, is packed with as much memory as NVIDIA can put on a single GA102 card today. The first professional visualization card to be launched based on NVIDIA’s new Ampere architecture, the A6000 will have NVIDIA hitting the market with its best foot forward. The A6000 will be a Quadro card in everything but name literally. The successor to the Turing-based Quadro RTX 8000/6000, the A6000 will be NVIDIA’s flagship professional graphics card, offering everything under the sun as far as NVIDIA’s graphics features go, and chart-topping performance to back it up. Being announced today and set to ship at the end of the year is the NVIDIA RTX A6000, NVIDIA’s next-generation, Ampere-based professional visualization card. Starting things off, we have a pair of new video cards from NVIDIA – and a launch that seemingly indicates that NVIDIA is getting ready to overhaul its professional visualization branding. As the de facto replacement for GTC Europe, this fall virtual GTC is a bit of a lower-key event relative to the Spring edition, but it’s still one that is seeing some NVIDIA hardware introduced to the world. We at least expect the card to be better than this naming.NVIDIA’s second GTC of 2020 is taking place this week, and as has quickly become a tradition, one of CEO Jensen Huang’s “kitchenside chats” kicks off the event. I do not even do STH’s GPU reviews, but I saw the problem immediately searching through images in the site’s CMS for “RTX 6000” and seeing three generations of GPU images pop up. Going RTX 6000 to RTX A6000 to RTX 6000 is too confusing of naming conventions. We hope that NVIDIA re-names this the RTX L6000 to be consistent with the data center version (L40) and make it easier for everyone to understand. What is more, NVIDIA picked just about the most confusing name it could by calling this the RTX 6000. Not being able to find specs easily for a GPU on NVIDIA’s website is strange. Many professional applications are using AI tools, and that is a focus of Ada Lovelace, so we expect the new generation to get better with time as tools take advantage of newer GPU architectures. It remains to be seen how these GPUs fare, but usually, we get great gains in each generation that expand over time. NVIDIA Ada Lovelace Performance And Power So there is a big power gap now between the professional 300W TDP GPUs with ECC support and 48GB of memory and the 24GB non-ECC RTX 4090. What is going to be interesting for folks here is that this is the new generation of GPUs but only at 300W. Luckily, even though NVIDIA’s website is more focused on selling software and solutions than professional GPUs with information like specs, we managed to get the specs of the card: NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Key Specs With the Quadro brand being phased out, this is going to cause confusion. Indeed, when we looked at the spec table we pulled in our RTX 6000 review (Turing) we saw this: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 Specifications The bigger issue is that NVIDIA is calling this the “NVIDIA RTX 6000” the same name as the Turing generation. The minimal information in the spec sheet is similar to what we saw with the NVIDIA L40 launch. That makes things confusing enough, but then we went to NVIDIA’s website, and the spec table for the new card looks like this: NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Specs The actively cooled cards use a different naming convention. To make things a bit more confusing, we covered the NVIDIA L40 also based on Ada Lovelace, and that line went from “A40” for Ampere to “L40” for Lovelace. For a naming recap, that means we are going: This is the new GPU: NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Edition Cover It was hard to get a RTX A6000, but you may have seen one in our recent NVIDIA RTX A4500 20GB GPU Review, pictured on the right as an example: NVIDIA RTX A4500 And RTX A6000 5 Years ago, before Quadro branding was phased out we had a NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 GPU Review. This is going to be perhaps one of the most confusingly named parts. The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada is a name that is going to confuse many, but it is a high-end professional workstation graphics solution based on the new Ada Lovelace architecture. At NVIDIA GTC 2022 Fall, NVIDIA launched a GPU that was not part of its keynote.
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