NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation Hits Retail

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NVIDIA and PNY Technologies revealed their RTX 5000 Ada Generation professional model back in August, alongside a few other additions to the existing "Ada Lovelace architecture family of high-performance workstation graphics cards." VideoCardz noted that units started to hit the retail market last week—the Chinese Gigabyte flagship server store (a certified OEM) on JD.com is selling them for 35,999 RMB a pop (~$5015), including taxes/extra charges. Official MSRP for the RTX 5000 Ada is $4000, so some form of upcharge has been added, but it is nowhere near as expensive as the flagship RTX 6000 Ada card. Both models share NVIDIA's upper echelon AD102 GPU, but the RTX 5000 Ada's configuration is cutback in order to reduce its price (roughly half of the flagship's cost).

Tom's Hardware has observed that Western retail outlets have similarly tacked on cheeky extra charges: "The RTX 5000 Ada graphics card is now available from PC Connection, Ebay, ProVantage, ShopBLT, and ThinkMate, among other workstation-oriented retailers. Meanwhile, none of them currently sell this add-in-board at its MSRP of $4,000, with prices hovering 10-20 percent above this figure. ProVantage even goes so far as to suggest the list price for the card is $6,999 and that you're saving 37%. Nice try." NVIDIA and PNY have not implemented a major cooling solution redesign for this year's upper-mid model—the RTX 5000 Ada largely shares its predecessor's aesthetic and single blower fan system (RTX A5000), although it has been "upgraded" with a 12VHPWR PCIe connector.




Here is a VideoCardz-authored "NVIDIA RTX ADA Workstation GPU" series comparison chart:



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[theouto]

Is that a fucking blower fan?

 

[wNotyarD]

Is that a fucking blower fan?

As it has always been on these professional cards.

 

[bonehead123]

Is that a fucking blower fan?

Yep it is

You could always just remove it & attach an AIO loop or other passive setup, if you're ok with voiding your warranty on such a cheap, disgusting looking, p.o.s card, hehehe

/s

 

[bug]

Is that a fucking blower fan?

It will work just fine when you don't overclock the crap out of the card.

 

[BoboOOZ]

The more you buy, the more you save!

 

[wNotyarD]

The more you buy, the more you save!

There's more to buy above this card, so it isn't a savings option

 

[bug]

The more you buy, the more you save!

That's for consumer parts. This is a professional SKU, these have been marked up since forever.

 

[Fergutor]

It's incredible how each time a blower fan card appears, someone gets all outraged, as if it was an anachronism and a scam. All because it doesn't conform to their trendy mentality (or zeitgeist as some say) while being unable to reason why these types of cards are like this.

 

[Vayra86]

Is that a fucking blower fan?

As usual yeah.

 

[Tomorrow]

Nvidia screwed up professional card naming since they dumped Quadro and Tesla names. Now we have ambiguous RTX 5000 Ada that sounds confusing.

 

[Minus Infinity]

$4K of that price is for "driver validation" Pro cards are the biggest joke of all time.

 

[bug]

Nvidia screwed up professional card naming since they dumped Quadro and Tesla names. Now we have ambiguous RTX 5000 Ada that sounds confusing.

Right. So now professionals will start buying gaming cards by mistake

$4K of that price is for "driver validation" Pro cards are the biggest joke of all time.

Presumably professional users don't wait years for bugs to be fixed. You have to pay for that level of support.
However, even that is largely irrelevant. These being professional cards, people use them to make money. They could cost $10k+ a piece and it wouldn't matter, because you're making those money back anyway.

 

[Tomorrow]

Right. So now professionals will start buying gaming cards by mistake

Im saying they had good naming. Now it's a goddamn mess. Atleast their gaming line still makes sense (aside from shifting every chip into higher price tier this gen).

 

[bug]

Im saying they had good naming. Now it's a goddamn mess. Atleast their gaming line still makes sense (aside from shifting every chip into higher price tier this gen).

There was a better distinction between the lines before, yes. But "screwed up"? Nobody cares what it says on the box when buying professional video cards (or any kind of professional equipment, for that matter).