NVIDIA doesn’t let gamers have fun. Today, at its GTC conference, the company announced its next series of professional graphics cards, based on the first stage of the Ampere architecture with its 30-series RTX GPUs. For desktops, there are RTX GPUs. A5000 and A4000, with 8,192 and 6,144 CUDA cores respectively. These GPUs feature 24GB of GDDR6 memory, although you can also connect two cards together via NVLINK for up to 48GB of addressable memory. NVIDIA’s RTX 3090 GPU technically offers even faster speeds, but its professional hardware is typically designed for stability over long workloads.
On the business laptop front, there is the A2000 to A5000 range, all of which are equipped with the company’s latest Max-Q optimization technology. It will be interesting to see how well NVIDIA’s high-end professional GPUs translate into laptops; On the consumer side, the RTX 3080 isn’t as fast as its desktop counterpart. NVIDIA is also releasing T1200 and T600 GPUs based on its older Turing hardware, which are more focused on multitasking than heavy graphics performance. NVIDIA also announced new A10 and A16 GPUs for data centers, which should pair well with its recently announced the Grace Arm-based processor for servers and supercomputers.
You can expect to see NVIDIA’s new professional-grade desktop GPUs in systems later this month, while laptop models are expected to appear in Q2.