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Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 has 96GB of VRAM and 600W of power
- jsheard 2y agoWhat a beast. Like past generations there is a variant with a blower-style cooler which is limited to 300W, but now they're also doing variants modelled after their gaming cards but with even higher TDPs. Triple the memory of the gaming flagship too, you used to only get double.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoNo price indicated. If you have to ask, you're not the market.
- caycep 2y agoWasn't the ADA edition like $6k or so?
- ein0p 2y agoGood luck finding it for less than $9K, and it has half the VRAM, and older chip. I predict MSRP of no less than $15K, with IRL prices above $20K.
- blitzar 2y agoOuch, I was just asking for a friend.
- hooloovoo_zoo 2y agoIt still has to compete with renting an actual professional card(s).
- BoredPositron 2y agoThese are workstation cards and a lot of professionals need them to do other work than ML. The elitist attitude is pretty amusing, though.
- blitzar 2y ago> need them to do other work than ML I need more frames in CS2.
- BoredPositron 2y agoWhatever your profession is mate but I hate to break it to you the 6000 series is usually 20% slower in gaming performance than the best consumer card of the generation.
- hooloovoo_zoo 2y agoIt's not elitist. The Nvidia 'pro' cards (quadro etc.) have always been a slightly unlocked, wildly more expensive version of the consumer cards. The v100, a100, h100 are meaningful hardware upgrades to the consumer line.
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- whatever1 2y agoA Blank check to nvidia will get you a spot in their buying invitation raffle.
- pacetherace 2y agoSend the bill to my manager
- jdprgm 2y agovram mafia
- 1024core 2y agoWhat's the limitation that keeps memory limited to 96GB? Could one put 512GB of memory on a card? I'm curious about what is the limiting factor.
- jsheard 2y agoGDDR memory buses are so fast that the RAM chips have to be packed tightly around the GPU core to maintain signal integrity, so the limit is more or less how many chips they can physically fit multiplied by the biggest chip capacity their suppliers can provide.
- lazide 2y agoAlso limited by heat dissipation.
- codedokode 2y agoBut theoretically RAM chips do not need to be synchronous with each other. Even more, the data lanes on the chip do not need to be synchronous - you can treat each lane as an independent serial channel. And GDDR latency is high enough that longer lanes won't change anything.
- wtallis 2y agoYou can't quite treat each lane as an independent serial channel; DRAM chips are at least 8 bits wide, and this GPU needs to either connect 16 bits to each die or connect groups of 32 bits to two dies, and the DRAM die does want to get the whole word on the same clock cycle. There's no SERDES at either end like you get with PCIe or Ethernet. Just 512 PHYs doing 32+Gbps PAM3. If you want those to be long-reach PHYs, you're not going to have much die space or power budget left for compute.
- etiam 2y agoDoes that mean it's perfectly feasible to have more if one accepts a higher latency? Seems like there could be plenty of use cases where that's preferable.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoIs this real 600W or 750W when we are in burst mode? I am too accustomed to the TDP lies from CPUs.
- xxs 2y agoT is for thermal, it's mostly about the need to be able to dissipate that much heat on average not peak (or transient) power.
- torginus 2y ago> 600W is this a sign that semiconductor scaling is completely dead now?
- adrian_b 2y agoNot yet, but the NVIDIA RTX 5000 (Blackwell) series does not use a newer manufacturing process, so their energy efficiency is slightly worse than that of the RTX 4000 SUPER (Ada) series, which remain the most efficient GPUs (e.g. RTX 4080 SUPER). The RTX 5000 (Blackwell) series has increased the performance only by using bigger chips and a higher power consumption. The RTX Pro Blackwell series use the same chips as the consumer series.
- fabifabulous 2y ago600W of power? Would you sell a car with "35l/100km of power"?
- noqc 2y agowhat on earth is wrong with watts as a unit of power?
- quickthrowman 2y agoWould you rather have it say 50A @ 12V? The headline is written incorrectly (because the article writer didn’t write it), but the article says ‘needs 600W of power’. Headlines are misleading, film at 11.
- redundantly 2y agoBecause the people buying these things have power supplies that are also rated by their wattage. If someone has a 750w PSU they'll need to replace it with something higher, e.g., 1000w, to run this card and the rest of the computer components. Having power ratings in these simple terms is helpful.
- standardly 2y agoKeep in mind the significant cost savings incurred by the fact it doubles as a home heating solution
- pwr22 2y agoThe more you buy, the more you save!
- metalman 2y agomore to the point, I hope that the electrical certification for computer's is getting ago over, as these GPU's make more heat than the smallest electrical heaters on sale cant help but consider a whole different mounting option, where, I keep toying with the idea of doing a solar powered, crypto mine, that pre heats water for a coin-opp laundromat business. There are water to water heat pumps that are for boosting the water temp up to whats required for comercial hot water, while cooling the per-heat tank back down to a good temp for the GPU's. Laundromats are one of the places that are truely timeless, with a particular and wide cross section of society rubbing shoulders, proper diners are similar, but are now mostly gone, unfortunate as both enforce a strangely formal civility and even camradery on people who rarely otherwise share space.
- Joel_Mckay 2y agoWe had a GPU cluster in a office building, and were asked to vacate given the HVAC for the entire floor was overwhelmed. It smelled like a tropical beach dumpster most of the time, and the lights would dim when a new job was queued. ML is so boring, =3
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- chneu 2y agoEvery room in my house with a desktop computer is consistently +5F the rest. There's some difference because of monitors and sun exposure, but yeah. I actually did have to alter my HVAC automation to account for it, lol.
- zokier 2y agoAs far as I can tell, it uses the same infamous power connector as 5090. I wonder if there are any differences there, maybe some additional balancing/safety features?
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- magicalhippo 2y agoWill be fun to see if it has all the ROPs it should[1], or if NVIDIA has really gone all in on making this the worst product launch ever... [1]: https://www.techpowerup.com/332884/nvidia-geforce-rtx-50-cards-spotted-with-missing-rops-nvidia-confirms-the-issue-multiple-vendors-affected https://www.techpowerup.com/332884/nvidia-geforce-rtx-50-car...
- kelseyfrog 2y agoI just hope whatever organ I’m selling to afford this GPU is one of the paired ones.
- theandrewbailey 2y agoToo bad SLI isn't a thing anymore.
- waltercool 2y ago[dead]