NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Workstation Graphics Card With Over 18K Cores & 48 GB Memory Hits Retail For $6800 US

Today, NVIDIA announces the retail availability of its flagship workstation graphics card based on the Ada architecture, the RTX 6000 Ada.

NVIDIA's RTX 6000 Workstation Graphics Card Features A Whopping 18K+ Cores, and 48 GB Memory, All For A Price of $6800 US

The NVIDIA RTX 6000 graphics card is aimed at the workstation segment and will utilize the Pro driver suite. It is not intended to be used for gaming though one can still game on it if they want since NVIDIA's drivers are very flexible. One might easily get confused with the naming scheme of the new card but one should remember that the Ampere generation had an 'A' at the beginning of the model name whereas the Ada generation doesn't feature any alphabets in the beginning. The card is simply called the RTX 6000 instead of the RTX A6000 (Last-gen).

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The specifications of the NVIDIA RTX 6000 are also better than the GeForce RTX 4090. It has just 2 SMs disabled at 142 which offer up to 18,176 CUDA cores. That's 11% more cores & SMs than the RTX 4090 GPU. But NVIDIA surely has some room left for an even higher-end variant that will use those 2 remaining SM units. The card comes with a similar boost clock of 2.5 GHz and has double the VRAM capacity at 48 GB (EEC) versus the 24 GB featured on the RTX 4090. The card does use slower 20 Gbps GDDR6X memory dies versus the 21 Gbps dies featured on the gaming graphics card.

Architecture	NVIDIA Ada Lovelace Architecture
Process Size	4nm NVIDIA Custom Process | TSMC
Die Size	608.4 mm
Transistors	76.3 Billion
CUDA Cores	18176
Tensor Cores	568 Gen-4
RT Cores	142 Gen-3
GPU Memory	48 GB GDDR6 with ECC
Memory Interface	384-bit
Graphics Bus	PCI Express Gen 4.0 x16
Display Connectors	DP 1.4 (4)
Form Factor	4.4" H x 10.5" L, Dual-Slot
Thermal Solution	Active Fansink
AR/MR/VR/XR Capable	Yes
NVIDIA 3D Vision and 3D Vision Pro	Support via Optional 3-pin mini-DIN
Frame Lock	Compatible with NVIDIA Quadro Sync II
Maximum Power Consumption	300 W
Auxiliary Power Connector	1x PCIe CEMS 16-pin
NVENC | NVDEC	3x | 3x + AV1 Encode and Decode

As for performance, the NVIDIA RTX 6000 'Ada' graphics card offers 91.1 TFLOPs of FP32, 210.6 TFLOPs of RT, and 1457 TFLOPs of Tensor core performance. While the RTX 4090 requires 450W TBP, the RTX 6000 is rated at just 300W, making it quite the efficiency powerhouse. But all of that extra prowess and workstation goodness comes at a cost.

The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada is now available through NVIDIA and its partners for a price of $6800 US which is also its official MSRP. That's almost 50% higher than the RTX A6000, its Ampere GPU-based predecessor, and 4.25x higher than the RTX 4090's MSRP. The price may be entirely worth it as this card has workstation capabilities and performance that are second to none. Ada has some insane compute capabilities and a lot of creation/AI prowess under its hood and with proper workstation drivers, this beast would fly.

NVIDIA Workstation Graphics Card Lineup:

Graphics Card	RTX 6000	RTX A6000	Quadro RTX 8000	Quadro RTX 6000	Quadro GV100
GPU	Ada Lovelace GPU	Ampere GPU	Turing GPU	Turing GPU	Volta GPU
GPU Process	5nm	8nm	12nm	12nm	12nm
Die Size	608mm2	628mm²	754mm²	754mm²	815mm²
GPU Cores	18176 Cores	10752 Cores	4608 Cores	4608 Cores	5120 Cores
Tensor Cores	568 Cores	656 Cores	576 Cores	576 Cores	640 Cores
Boost Clock	2.50 GHz	1.80 GHz	1.77 GHz	1.77 GHz	1.62 GHz
Single Precision	91.1 TFLOPs	38.7 TFLOPs	16.31 TFLOPs	16.31 TFLOPs	16.66 TFLOPs
Ray Tracing Spec	210.6 TFLOPs	75.4 TFLOPs	10 GigaRays/Sec	10 GigaRays/Sec	N/A
VRAM	48 GB GDDR6X	48 GB GDDR6	48 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR6	32 GB HBM2
NVLINK VRAM	TBD	96 GB With NVLINK	96 GB With NVLINK	48 GB With NVLINK	N/A
Memory Bus	384-bit	384-bit	384-bit	384-bit	4096-bit
Memory Bandwidth	960 GB/s	768 GB/s	672 GB/s	672 GB/s	870 GB/s
TDP	300W	300W	~225W	~200W	250W
Launch Price	$7350 US	$4650 US	$10000 US	$6300 US	$9000 US
Launch Date	Q4 2022	Q4 2020	Q4 2018	Q4 2018	2018

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