The Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Generation graphics card, created for professional visualization (ProViz) applications, is now being covertly sold by Nvidia’s partners. The board includes the company’s top-of-the-line AD102 GPU for client PCs, but it is configured drastically differently to lower its power consumption to 250W. Unexpectedly, merchants are charging exorbitant prices for PNY’s Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada boards.
Among other workstation-focused shops, the Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada graphics card is currently offered through PC Connection, Ebay, ProVantage, ShopBLT, and ThinkMate. However, none of them are currently selling this add-in-board at its MSRP of $4,000; instead, prices are often 10–20 percent higher. ProVantage even goes so far as to claim that you are saving 37% off the card’s list price of $6,999.
The Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Generation graphics card is built on the 12,800 CUDA core, 100 SM AD102 graphics processor.
It connects to 32 GB of GDDR6 memory utilizing a 256-bit interface and has a maximum compute performance of 65.3 FP32 TFLOPS. While using the same AD102 GPU, Nvidia’s top-of-the-line RTX 6000 Ada features 18,176 CUDA cores and generates an astounding 91.6 FP32 TFLOPS. Additionally, the RTX 6000 has a 384-bit bus connecting 48 GB of GDDR6 RAM to the processor.
Although reducing the GPU by 30% may seem strange, it may have been the only way to create a product that would be priced below the RTX 6000 Ada while still providing a considerable, albeit not glaring, performance differential with the top-tier ProViz graphics card. The potential performance of Nvidia’s full AD103 would be much lower than that of a scaled-down AD102 because it has a maximum of 10,240 CUDA cores distributed across 80 SMs.
It’s interesting that Nvidia kept the part’s high power rating of 250W despite drastically reducing the GPU arrangement. The board has a dual-slot cooler with a single blower for the cooling system. A 12VHPWR PCIe auxiliary power connector is also used by the board.
It is yet unclear how Nvidia will use the AD103 processor for its professional products in the interim. RTX 6000 Ada makes use of 142 (out of 144) SMs and the entire 384-bit memory interface, which is nearly the entire AD102. Only a 256-bit interface and 100 SMs are used in the Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada. The next significant step down is to RTX 4500 Ada, which has a full AD104 implementation with 60 SMs and a 192-bit interface.
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