With more memory and performance than the RTX A2000, the new GPU is an appealing option for engineers and designers—especially those interested in AI.
On Monday, Nvidia released its latest desktop graphics card: the Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada Generation. Based on the Ada Lovelace GPU architecture, the Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada supplants the previous generation RTX A2000 12GB. The new workstation GPU operates at the same 70-watt power level and offers up to 1.5x the performance of the previous generation, according to Nvidia’s product announcement.
“This is ideally suited for design, visualization and rendering workflows,” Himanshu Iyer, senior industry manager for manufacturing and product development at Nvidia, told engineering.com.
The Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada is the new entry point for the Ada generation workstation graphics cards, slotting in below the RTX 4000 Ada. That puts the RTX 2000 Ada in the mid-range of Nvidia’s overall workstation GPU lineup.
The new graphics card has 16GB of memory, a bump over the previous generation that Iyer says will especially benefit AI applications. “Increasingly we see designers and engineers playing with AI tools like Stable Diffusion,” Iyer said. “This GPU is quite powerful for AI workflows.”
Specs and price of the Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada Generation
The Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada has 2,816 CUDA Cores, 88 Tensor Cores and 22 RT Cores. It offers 12.0 TFLOPS of single-precision performance, 191.9 TFLOPS of Tensor performance and 27.7 TFLOPS of RT Core performance. The new graphics card has a 128-bit memory interface and a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s. The dual-slot card comes with both a low profile bracket and an ATX bracket, and measures 2.6 inches in height by 6.6 inches in length.
The Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada is now available from select Nvidia partners and will be available directly from Nvidia later this month for a price of $625.
Rob Wolkers, owner and senior industrial design engineer at Rob Wolkers Design and Engineering, expressed praise for the new graphics card. “Equipped with next-generation architecture and a large framebuffer, the RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU improves productivity in my everyday industrial design and engineering workflows, allowing me to work with large datasets in full fidelity and generate renders with more lighting and reflection scenarios 3x faster,” Wolkers said in Nvidia’s announcement.
