[Hardware] Recent NVIDIA Driver Exposes RTX 5000 Ada Workstation Graphics Card

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NVIDIA's upcoming RTX 5000 Ada workstation graphics card has been revealed in the latest drivers and will compete with recent Radeon Pro offerings.

 

 

VIDIA Speeds Up RTX 5000 Ada Workstation Graphics Card Deployment After AMD Radeon Pro W7000 Launch
Last month, NVIDIA revealed the NVIDIA RTX 4000 workstation graphics card during the GTC 2023 conference. The graphics card is designed to be extremely compact and efficient, featuring the AD104 GPU and a TDP of 70W. However, recent leaks have pointed to another workstation card in the plans, the RTX 5000 Ada. With a recent driver update, it appears that the graphics card is more or less confirmed for launch.

This information was discovered in the recent RTX Ada workstation series GPU drivers. The Device ID was spotted within the driver information:

NVIDIA_DEV.26B2 = “NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation” (via Laptop2Go)

The new workstation GPU from NVIDIA will mark it as the third graphics card from this series, which will join the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada and 4000 Ada SFF GPU. The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada graphics card features an AD102 GPU, 18,176 CUDA cores, & 48 GB GDDR6 EEC memory. The NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada SFF graphics card comes in an SFF (Small-Form-Factor) design, offering an AD104 GPU, 6144 CUDA cores, and 20 GB of GDDR6 EEC memory. These two cards cost $6800 for the RTX 6000 ADA GPU and $1250 for the RTX 4000 ADA SFF GPU.

 

 

According to leaker, Kopite7kimi, the NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada workstation graphics card is rumored to feature the AD102 GPU die. The reason why the AD102 GPU is used is that the core count of the said GPU is said to be 15,360 and the only chip that can accommodate that many cores are the flagship die. The GPU is already being used by the top RTX 6000 Ada GPU but even that isn't its final form as there is room for further enablement since the chip houses 144 SMs for a total of 18,432 cores.

With that said the NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada will feature a very cut-down die and feature 32 GB of standard GDDR6 memory running across a 256-bit bus interface. Considering that NVIDIA uses a similar DRAM spec as the RTX 6000 Ada, we can expect up to 640 GB/s of bandwidth.

AMD recently announced its highly competitive Radeon Pro W7000 series cards which are priced at half the amount of the flagship RTX 6000 Ada. It is likely that NVIDIA tackles back at these offerings at pricing close to $3000-$4000 US since Ada does perform much better in workstation & rendering workloads.

 

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