The new Nvidia RTX 6000 for workstations in the professional segment is based on the AD102 graphics processor (“Nvidia Ada Lovelace”) known from the GeForce RTX 4090 (test) and offers 18,176 CUDA Units total 48GB GDDR6 graphics memory including ECC error correction. The professional accelerator costs $6,800 before taxes.
The RTX A6000 becomes the RTX 6000 Ada generation
Nvidia calls the new offshoot of its professional accelerator RTX 6000 Ada Generation, while the direct predecessor was still simply called A6000 and a full expansion of the GA102 (“Nvidia Ampere”) with 10,752 FP32 shader units and also 48 GB GDDR6 with error correction code (ECC) used. However, the official power loss does not change with once more 300 watts TGP.
Professional accelerator will be 46 percent more expensive
Unlike the Total Graphics Power, Nvidia has increased the price of its professional accelerator designed for workstation systems and specially optimized for AI workloads by a whopping 46 percent.
While the RTX A6000 still had an MSRP of $4,650, the manufacturer is now asking for $6,800 for the RTX 6000 Ada generation.
- Amps → Ada Lovelace
- 10,752 shaders → 18,176 shaders
- 1.8 GHz GPU clock → 2.5 GHz GPU -Clock
- 48 GB GDDR6 @ 16 Gbps → 48 GB GDDR6 @ 20 Gbps
- 768 GB/s bandwidth → 960 GB/s bandwidth
- $4,650 → $6,800
For more information, see the official data sheet (PDF) of the Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada generation .
Already officially available
Both generations are currently available for purchase in Nvidia's in-house online shop. The immense surcharge also explains the various models of the GeForce RTX 4090 with blower coolers on the market, which are often used as a cheap replacement in workstations.
The complete specifications of the Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada generation, whose AD102 GPU lacks two streaming multiprocessors for full expansion, read as follows in comparison to the GeForce RTX 4090 and the direct predecessor.
Ada Generation Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A6000 Architecture Nvidia Ada Lovelace Nvidia Ampere Manufacturing Process TSMC N4 Samsung 8 nm Streaming Multiprocessors 142 128 84 FP32 Shader Units 18,176 16,384 10,752 Boost Clock 2.5 GHz 1.8 GHz Memory 48GB GDDR6
960GB/s
384-bit
ECC 24GB GDDR6X
1008GB/s
384-bit 48GB GDDR6
768GB/s
384 -Bit
ECC TGP 300 watts 450 watts 300 watts MSRP $6,800 $1,600 $4,650
See the Nvidia RTX official product page for more information 6000 Ada Generation, which is marketed in Germany as the Nvidia RTX 6000 graphics card of the Ada generation.
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