NVIDIA has added support for its upcoming RTX 5880 Ada GPU in its latest drivers which is designed as a high-end workstation solution.
NVIDIA's RTX 6000 Ada Alternative, The RTX 5880 Ada, For China Spotted In Upcoming RTX Enterprise Drivers
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 6000 Ada GPUs were among the products that were banned from export to China following the latest US regulations and policies. While the alternative to the GeForce RTX 4090 has now been revealed to be the RTX 4090 D, it looks like NVIDIA is also cooking up the alternative to its flagship workstation GPU in the form of the RTX 5880 Ada.
While there is no mention of GPU specs or availability, it looks like the NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada will be a cut-down version of the RTX 6000 Ada which features the AD102 GPU with 18,176 cores & 48 GB of GDDR6 memory. The RTX 5880 Ada will have to feature a cut-down configuration of the same AD102 GPU to meet the TPP requirements and fall within the 4800 TPP (Total Processing Performance) parameters.
As for the drivers, the NVIDIA RTX Enterprise 537.99 release adding support for the graphics card means that the specifications are already finalized for this product and it's just a matter of time till we see it launch within the consumer segment.
The card is likely to be a China-exclusive variant & should be priced similarly to the RTX 6000 Ada which retails at around $6800 US. The card having a large 48 GB memory pool is a great thing for AI workloads but this extra pool is also good for content creation and rendering tasks which this Ada RTX series is essentially designed for.
The NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada GPU might likely launch in the coming month of January as that's when we are also going to see the launch of the GeForce RTX 4090 D gaming graphics card for the China markets.
NVIDIA RTX Ada Workstation Graphics Card Lineup:
| Graphics Card | RTX 6000 Ada | RTX 5880 Ada | RTX 5000 Ada | RTX 4500 Ada | RTX 4000 Ada | RTX 4000 SFF Ada | RTX 2000 SFF Ada | RTX 2000E SFF Ada |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU | Ada Lovelace GPU | Ada Lovelace GPU | Ada Lovelace GPU | Ada Lovelace GPU | Ada Lovelace GPU | Ada Lovelace GPU | Ada Lovelace GPU | Ada Lovelace GPU |
| GPU Process | TSMC 4N | TSMC 4N | TSMC 4N | TSMC 4N | TSMC 4N | TSMC 4N | TSMC 4N | TSMC 4N |
| Die Size | 608mm2 (AD102) | 608mm2 (AD102) | 608mm2 (AD102) | 295mm2 (AD104) | 295mm2 (AD104) | 295mm2 (AD104) | 159mm2 (AD107) | 159mm2 (AD107) |
| GPU Cores | 18176 Cores | 14,080 | 12800 Cores | 7680 Cores | 6144 Cores | 6144 Cores | 2816 | 2816 |
| Tensor Cores | 568 Cores | 440 Cores | 500 Cores | 300 Cores | 192 Cores | 192 Cores | 88 | 88 |
| Boost Clock | 2.50 GHz | ~2.50 GHz | ~2.60 GHz | ~2.60 GHz | ~2.20 GHz | ~1.70 GHz | TBD | TBD |
| Single Precision | 91.1 TFLOPs | 69.3 TFLOPs | 65.3 TFLOPs | 39.6 TFLOPs | 26.7 TFLOPs | 19.2 TFLOPs | 12 TFLOPs | 8.9 TFLOPs |
| Tensor Performance | 1458 TFLOPs | 1108 TFLOPs | 1044 TFLOPs | 634 TFLOPs | 327 TFLOPs | 306.8 TFLOPs | 191.9 TFLOPs | 143 TFLOPs |
| VRAM | 48 GB GDDR6 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 32 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR6 | 20 GB GDDR6 | 20 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 ECC |
| NVLINK VRAM | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 384-bit | 256-bit | 192-bit | 160-bit | 160-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 960 GB/s | 960 GB/s | 576 GB/s | 432 GB/s | 360 GB/s | 320 GB/s | 224 GB/s | 224 GB/s |
| TDP | 300W | 285W | 250W | 210W | 130W | 70W | 70W | 50W |
| Launch Price | $6800 US | TBD | $4000 US | $2250 US | $1250 US | $1250 US | $625 US | $849 US |
| Launch Date | Q1 2023 | Q1 2024 | Q3 2023 | Q4 2023 | Q4 2023 | Q1 2023 | Q1 2024 | Q3 2024 |
News Sources: KOMACHI_ENSAKA , HXL (@9550Pro)
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