Tuesday, December 15th 2020
NVIDIA Announces RTX A6000 48 GB Professional Graphics Card Accelerators
NVIDIA today announced their RTX A6000 series of graphics cards, meant to perform as graphics accelerators for professional workloads. And the announcement marks a big departure for the company's marketing, as the Quadro moniker has apparently been dropped. The RTX A6000 includes all raytracing resources also present on consumer RTX graphics cards, and marks a product segmentation from the company's datacenter-geared A40. The RTXA6000 features a full-blown GA102 chip - meaning 10752 CUDA cores powering single-precision compute performance of up to 38.7 TFLOPs (3.1 TLFOPs higher than that of the GeForce RTX 3090). Besides offering NVIDIA's professional driver support and features, the RTX A6000 features 48 GB of GDDR6 (note the absence of the X) memory - ensuring everything and the kitchen sink can be stored in the cards' VRAM. GDDR6X doesn't currently offer the per-chip density of GDDR6 solution, hence why NVIDIA opted for the lower-performing, yet denser memory variant.
The RTX A6000 features a classic blower-type cooler, and presents a new low-profile NVLink bridge that enables two of them to work in tandem within the same system. NVIDIA vGPU virtualization technologies are supported as well; display outputs are taken care of by 4x DisplayPort connectors, marking the absence of HDMI solutions. The card is currently listed for preorder at a cool and collected $5,500, but with insufficient silicon to offer even to its highest-margin datacenter customers, it remains to be seen exactly how available these will be in the market.
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via Videocardz, B&H, NVIDIA RTX A6000
The RTX A6000 features a classic blower-type cooler, and presents a new low-profile NVLink bridge that enables two of them to work in tandem within the same system. NVIDIA vGPU virtualization technologies are supported as well; display outputs are taken care of by 4x DisplayPort connectors, marking the absence of HDMI solutions. The card is currently listed for preorder at a cool and collected $5,500, but with insufficient silicon to offer even to its highest-margin datacenter customers, it remains to be seen exactly how available these will be in the market.
40 Comments on NVIDIA Announces RTX A6000 48 GB Professional Graphics Card Accelerators
Where is the air going to come from if the fan is blocked by another card?
This is not an exhaust you're looking at here, that happens at the slot end in both cases.
Anyway :D I doubt many people place them this close together these days.
These server racks are cooled through a dedicated CRAC/CRAH infrastructure, so basically air conditioning from 15C to 27C (not the room but the casing itself). We have a small data center on-campus that houses these.In consumer ATX cases and the like, you're right as the GPUs shouldn't be that close together (especially for blower-types). However in data center servers they are packed tightly, but aren't starved for air due to the cooling system I mentioned above.
My bad :banghead:
And many of these will end up in server racks which already operate on the concept of positive air pressure. They'll be fine.
The A4000 is quite a low power GPU at 140W, but would it be louder than 3000 series cards...? The fact its a single slot design is actually concerning because the heatsink is smaller... :/