Nvidia introduces Ampere workstation GPUs for desktops and laptops

Nvidia will introduce five new Ampere video cards during its Graphics Technology Conference 2021. These different GPUs are intended for workstations. Nvidia releases desktop and laptop variants.

For desktops, Nvidia is introducing an RTX A5000 and RTX A4000. These video cards get 8192 and 6144 CUDA cores. The GPUs have respectively 24GB and 16GB of GDDR6 memory with error-correcting code. According to Nvidia, the RTX A5000 has a TDP of 230W, while the RTX A4000 would have a TDP of 140W. Nvidia does not state at the time of writing how many Tensor and ray tracing cores these desktop video cards will get. The clock speeds are also unknown. The GPUs get a PCIe 4.0 interface and the RTX A5000 supports virtualization.

Nvidia is also introducing several new laptop video cards for professionals, all of which include Max-Q optimizations. The company comes with RTX A5000 and RTX A4000 GPUs, which have 6144 and 5120 CUDA cores, respectively, and 48 and 40 cores for ray tracing. The RTX A5000 gets 16GB of memory and the RTX A4000 has 8GB of vram. The company also shows RTX A3000 and RTX A2000 video cards for laptops. These chips are positioned lower and get 4096 and 2560 CUDA cores respectively.

According to Nvidia, the desktop variants will be available later this month. The company has not yet announced suggested retail prices. Laptops with the new RTX video cards will appear in the second quarter of this year. Nvidia does not mention a concrete release date of these chips.