NVIDIA now has an answer for professionals wanting to get their fingers on its new Ampere structure: the RTX A6000 and A40. They’re two power-house playing cards that simply outclass the drool-worthy $1,499 RTX 3090, with 10,752 CUDA cores and 48GB of VRAM. And sure, in case you have been questioning, they’re the successors to the earlier RTX 8000 and 6000 Quadro GPUs. It’s unclear why NVIDIA is dropping the Quadro branding this time round, however the identify on the cardboard gained’t matter to anybody demanding professional-grade efficiency.

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NVIDIA isn’t divulging clock speeds and particular technical particulars about these playing cards simply but, however you may consider them as super-powered model of the RTX 3080 and 3090. They’re working the identical absolutely GA102 GPU as these two playing cards, they usually’re in any other case similar to one another, besides the A90 is totally passively cooled and has a slower 14.5 Gbps reminiscence clock. They’re additionally working slower GDDR6 RAM, in comparison with the sooner GDDR6X on the patron playing cards, so there could also be some unusual efficiency disparities between the 3080 and 3090, as Anandtech factors out. The corporate says the A6000 is round twice as quick because the RTX 8000 in some instances.

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