NVIDIA’s latest GPU Technology Conference begins today, and to say the company has a lot to talk about is a true understatement. This may be the newsiest GTC that NVIDIA has ever had, making it difficult to figure…
NVIDIA’s latest GPU Technology Conference begins today, and to say the company has a lot to talk about is a true understatement. This may be the newsiest GTC that NVIDIA has ever had, making it difficult to figure out where to even begin. Well, given our love for the latest graphics tech, the launching of ten new professional GPUs seems like a good starting point. Last fall, NVIDIA announced its latest top-end workstation graphics card, the RTX A6000. While it’s a Quadro in spirit, NVIDIA made the choice to drop that brand from its latest offerings. That now extends to the newly-launched RTX A5000 and RTX A4000, effective successors to the RTX 5000 and RTX 4000. Here’s the A5000: With these latest cards launched, the latest NVIDIA workstation GPU lineup stands as such: NVIDIA’s workstation GPU lineup has changed quite a bit over the past couple of generations. Part of that includes the latest move of dropping the Quadro name, but even before that, NVIDIA never delivered a Quadro P2000-level card in its Turing series last generation, making us wonder if the company is still planning to release more modest ProViz cards. Tying into that, because a P2000-level card hasn’t existed since Pascal, it’s meant that NVIDIA’s latest workstation lineup has supported ECC from top to bottom. Whereas the Pascal-based Quadro P4000 didn’t feature ECC, the successor Quadro RTX 4000 did. That’s likewise true with the new A4000. Each one of NVIDIA’s new Ampere-based workstation cards increase not just performance gen-over-gen, but memory density, as well.
