Today, Nvidia held its GPU Technology Conference, or GTC, and it unveiled a ton of new technologies and capabilities at the event, including a new Ampere-based professional GPU, the RTX A6000.
Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, or GTC is taking place this week, after the company was forced to cancel the in-person event back in March due to the pandemic. As it started today, the company has dropped a massive amount of announcements across its many areas of business, including a new professional GPU, the RTX A6000. This is Nvidia’s first Ampere-based professional GPU, which means it’s using the same architecture as the recently-launched RTX 3080 and 3090 consumer cards. Usually, Nvidia’s professional GPUs use the Quadro branding, but for whatever reason, Nvidia seems to have dropped it from the name here, though you’ll still find it under the Quadro category on Nvidia’s website. Being based on the Ampere architecture, the RTX A6000 has new CUDA cores that promise to double the speed of single-precision floating point (FP32) operations; new RT cores that deliver up to twice the throughput in ray tracing; and third-generation Tensor Cores, with Tensor Float 32 (TF32) precision, which promises five times the AI training throughput compared to the previous generation.
