Nvidia introduces RTX 4000 SFF Ada and five mobile workstations graphics cards at GTC 2023

Nvidia's GTC keynote included a variety of AI-related announcements, the launch of the Path Tracing SDK, and even a new software library for computational lithography named cuLitho. However, in the middle of all these, there was still time to introduce new laptop and desktop workstation GPUs. 

For desktop users that wanted an SFF workstation GPU, Nvidia launched the RTX 4000 SFF Ada. This dual-slot GPU only occupies a fraction of the space of other mid-range workstation graphics cards, with just 16.7cm in length, and has a 70W TDP. However, don't let its reduced dimensions and apparent low power consumption fool you.

With 20GB of GDDR6 memory running at 16Gbps across a 160-bit memory interface, the GPU offers a maximum bandwidth of 320GB/s. In addition, the GPU packs 6,144 CUDA cores, 192 Tensors and 48 RT cores for up to 19.2 TFLOPS of single-precision compute performance, up to 44.3 TFLOPS of RT performance, and up to 306.8 TFLOPS of Tensor performance. For image output, there's 4x Mini DisplayPort 1.4a.

As for the mobile parts, Nvidia launched the Ada-based RTX 5000, 4000, 3500, 3000 and 2000 Ada mobile workstation GPUs. As previous rumours stated, the RTX 5000 would be the equivalent of the RTX 4090 laptop GPU, while the RTX 4000 would match the RTX 4080 laptop GPU specs. The RTX 3500 and 2000 don't have an RTX 40 mobile counterpart, but the RTX 3000 has (RTX 4070). The table below summarises the new RTX Ada mobile workstation GPU series specs.

GPU	RTX 5000 ADA	RTX 4000 ADA	RTX 3500 ADA	RTX 3000 ADA	RTX 2000 ADA
CUDA Cores	9,728	7,424	5,120	4,608	3,072
RT Cores	76	56	40	36	24
Tensor Cores	304	232	160	144	96
Boost Clock	2.19GHz	2.26GHz	2.25GHz	2.16GHz	2.36GHz
Memory	16GB GDDR6	12GB GDDR6	12GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6
Memory Bus	256-bit	192-bit	192-bit	128-bit	128-bit
Bandwidth	576GB/s	432GB/s	432GB/s	256GB/s	256GB/s
TGP	80W-175W	60W-175W	60W-140W	35W-140W	35W-140W
FP32 Compute	42.6 TFLOPS	33.6 TFLOPS	23.0 TFLOPS	19.9 TFLOPS	14.5 TFLOPS
RT Core Performance	98.5 TFLOPS	77.8 TFLOPS	53.3 TFLOPS	46.0 TFLOPS	33.5 TFLOPS
Tensor Performance	681.8 TFLOPS	538.0T FLOPS	368.6 TFLOPS	318.6 TFLOPS	231.6 TFLOPS

Nvidia states the RTX 4000 SFF Ada will release later this year with a price of around $1250. As for RTX Ada-powered laptops, the company confirmed they would be available starting this month.

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