Nvidia’s about to launch its new for-serious-work-only RTX 6000 graphics card, and it’s going to be costly. The brand new workstation card apparently confirmed up in retail listings on websites like ShopBLT and CompSource, based on VideoCardz, with costs coming in at a enterprise expense-busting $7,378 to over $8,000.
Introduced in September, the RTX 6000 is powered by the identical Ada Lovelace structure as Nvidia’s new RTX 40XX-series gaming choices. We didn’t get details about the 6000’s pricing at the moment, however competing top-end workstation playing cards like AMD’s Radeon Professional W6800 with 32GB of VRAM can value lower than $4,000 compared. Even Apple’s overpriced W6900X doesn’t go over $6,000.
To be honest, the brand new RTX 6000 has 48GB of GDDR6 ECC RAM, and primarily based on specs printed by Leadtek, it has over 4 instances the single-precision efficiency at about 91.1 teraflops in comparison with 22.2 on the W6900X. So with that form of arsenal, Solidworks customers may doubtlessly load all of the objects.
That’s the identical quantity of reminiscence that Nvidia’s present Ampere-based (and confusingly named) RTX A6000 has. The A6000 is lower than $7,000 at some retailers, carrying a big premium in comparison with its gaming twin, the $1,000 RTX 3090. That hole is definitely fairly comparable between each the $7,000-plus RTX 6000 and Nvidia’s new vastly spectacular RTX 4090 gaming GPU at $1,599.
Though the RTX 4090 with 24GB of VRAM has half the quantity of reminiscence because the RTX 6000, they’re nearly on par with different specs, like reminiscence bandwidth and each tensor and ray-tracing cores. Additionally, differentiating the merchandise is harder now since Nvidia determined to not use its workstation Quadro branding on the 6000.
However most significantly for engineering corporations, the RTX 6000 apparently requires much less energy with a max 300W in comparison with the 4090’s gulping 450W draw to associate with its expensive ECC RAM. So upgrading will technically be simpler for some workstations that aren’t prepared for that overhead. What gained’t be simpler is definitely affording to do it.