In a move that many believe could be the end of the road for its ‘Quadro‘-branded professional graphics cards, Nvidia on Monday unveiled the RTX A6000 and A40 ‘Ampere’ GPUs for high-end workstations and data-centers without the familiar branding. The move follows the company’s recent decision to replace the Tesla V100 with the Nvidia A100 and possibly discontinue the ‘Titan’ branding for its top-end consumer cards.
The new GPUs bring heavy-duty computing power that the company says will accelerate rendering, AI, VR/AR and compute workloads for artists, designers and engineers. Built on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, they feature new RT Cores, Tensor Cores and CUDA cores. Image Courtesy: Nvidia
Nvidia is yet to announce either an exact release date or prices for its new GPUs, but says that the RTX A6000 will be available from a number of channel partners, including PNY, Leadtek, Ingram Micro, Ryoyo and on nvidia.com starting mid-December. They will also be available from leading systems manufacturers, like Dell, HP, Lenovo and Boxx, from next year.
As for the A40, it will also be available from OEM workstation and server vendors, including Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo, starting early next year.
