If that forces NVIDIA to put out a 4090 Ti, it will certainly need to support DP 2.1 in order to compete, and to show actual gains over the 4090. I'll be curious to see what happens when AMD fixes their alleged issues with clock speeds on RDNA 3 and puts out a contender to challenge or surpass RTX 4090, such as an RX 7990 XTX rumored to be planned for 2023. But AMD cards now come with DP 2.1 support, and monitors from Samsung and others are rolling out with 2.1 support as we speak. Sure, there's been a bit of a catch 22 about adoption.DP 2.1 has been out a few years now, but the card makers got complacent with crypto sales, and the monitor makers weren't making the update without supporting cards. Jensen is really being stubborn about this. JDJJ said:Imagine paying $7000-$8000 and it doesn't have DisplayPort 2.1. Where will that put the RX 6000 Ada? Will they quietly update that as well? We can only guess at their motives, but at the end of the day, missing the boat on DP 2.1 will probably mean some professionals will see insufficient improvement in this card vs a previous model, especially at the price premium, to justify purchasing now. Or maybe marketing is worried about the optics of updating to 2.1 in the pro card, while assuring the masses that 1.4a is all they need, having misjudged where the market was moving while trying to maximize profits in the wake of the loss of crypto sales. I can only think either Jensen and Team Green have gotten so complacent they think as long as you post a bump in processing power, they'll sell out, even if the interface becomes a problem. While many consumers won't notice the problems and limitations of compression and/or bandwidth limits playing PUBG, professionals should be hesitating about paying a premium over non-Ada versions of pro cards, or upgrading with such a handicap and lack of future-proofing. We are already seeing the 4090 bump up against the upper limits of 1.4a's bandwidth, and DSC does come at a cost as well. But even more problematic is that these newer cards are being held back. This is especially true for creators who have demanding requirements, e.g. We've now hit the upper bounds of what DSC compression can do with DP 1.4a's limited bandwidth. Imagine paying $7000-$8000 and it doesn't have DisplayPort 2.1. The RTX 6000 Ada is designed for professional applications, and so it carries 48GB of GDDR6 memory with ECC enabled, featuring a peak memory bandwidth of 960 MB/s - slightly lower than 1,008 MB/s offered by the GeForce RTX 4090. That suggests Nvidia is using 20 Gbps GDDR6 memory rather than the slightly faster 21 Gbps GDDR6X, but power use may also be slightly lower on the GDDR6 chips. However, there are clear differences between the RTX 6000 Ada and the consumer-focused RTX 4090. That equates to a GPU boost clock of 2505 MHz and is about 10% higher than the GeForce RTX 4090, which features 16,384 CUDA cores. Nvidia's RTX 6000 Ada based on the AD102 GPU has 18,176 CUDA cores enabled, and while Nvidia doesn't specify clocks anywhere that we can find, it's partners like PNY (opens in new tab) and Leadtek (opens in new tab) quote to 91.1 FP32 TFLOPS of compute performance. Other outlets like CDW (opens in new tab) are marking it up an additional 25% or so, with availability set for 4–6 weeks out. Nvidia has the card listed at $6,800 (opens in new tab), with a limit of five per customer - just in case you're trying to put together a bunch of workstations. Pricing varies pretty widely, ranging from $6,800 to $8,600 depending on the retailer. Rated for 300W of power consumption, the board is designed for computer aided design, digital content creation, virtual desktop infrastructure, and other professional applications. Based on the AD102 GPU with 18,176 CUDA cores enabled, this is the 'fattest' AD102 configuration available to date - 142 of the 144 Streaming Multiprocessors are enabled. Nvidia has quietly started selling its RTX 6000 Ada Generation graphics card.
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