NVIDIA Announces Ampere GPUs For Pros

NVIDIA has announced a range of eight new Ampere architecture GPUs for the latest generation of servers, desktops and laptops. Utilizing the latest RTX technology, these new cards are supposed to offer superior graphical computing power aimed at helping professionals such as designers and engineers at their trade.

The desktop-grade card are the new RTX A5000 and RTX A4000. For laptops, there are the RTX A2000, A3000, A4000 and A5000, which are able to ulitize the latest generation of Max-Q and RTX technologies.

NIVIDIA has two Ampere cards dedicated to server based computing, they are the A10 and A16. The company says that the former can deliver up to 2.5x the virual workstation epformacne compared to previous generations while latter offers 2x user density with lower total cost of ownership.

Thorugh the use of NIVIDIA’s Virtual Workstation (vWS) and Virtual C (vPC) software, the cars are able to deliver more power, memory and speed to any workflow

This is what to expect of the NVIDIA Ampere architecture:

• Second-Generation RT Cores: Up to 2x the throughput of the previous generation, with the ability to run concurrent ray tracing, shading and denoising tasks.
• Third-generation Tensor Cores: Up to 2x the throughput of the previous generation, up to 10x with sparsity, with support for new TF32 and BFloat16 data formats.
• CUDA Cores: Up to 2.5x the FP32 throughput of the previous generation for significant increases in graphics and compute workloads.

Desktop GPU features include:

• Up to 24GB of GPU memory: Double the memory of the previous generation, the RTX A4000 with 16GB GDDR6 memory and the RTX A5000 with 24GB of GDDR6 memory both support ECC memory for error-free computing. The RTX A5000 is expandable up to 48GB of memory using NVIDIA NVLink® to connect two GPUs.
• Virtualization: The RTX A5000 supports NVIDIA RTX vWS software for multiple high-performance virtual workstation instances that enable remote users to share resources to drive high-end design, AI and compute workloads.
• PCIe Gen 4: Doubles the bandwidth of the previous generation and speeds up data transfers for data-intensive tasks such as AI, data science and creating 3D models.

Laptop GPU features include:

• Third-Gen Max-Q technology: Perform quieter and more efficiently with Dynamic Boost 2.0, WhisperMode 2.0, Resizable BAR and NVIDIA DLSS technology.
• Up to 16GB of GPU memory: For the largest models, scenes, assemblies and advanced multi-application workflows

Besides this, the company also introduced T1200 and T600 laptop GPUs, based on its previous-generation Turing architecture. Though lower in performance, they are considered to be the next step up from integrated graphics.

The new NVIDIA RTX desktop GPUs and NVIDIA data center GPUs will be available starting later this month. However Tthe new NVIDIA RTX laptop GPUs will be available in mobile workstations sometime in Q2.