Workstations are getting two new budget options from Nvidia: RTX A400 with 768 CUDA cores and RTX A1000 with 2,304 CUDA cores. Both are based on the Ampère architecture.

Nvidia is launching two new graphics cards for workstations. Not the latest Ada generation cards based on the 5 nanometer Ada Lovelace architecture, but the four-year-old Ampère architecture (8 nanometers).

The Nvidia RTX A400 will have 4GB of GDDR6 RAM on board, 768 CUDA cores, 24 Tensor cores and a memory bandwidth of 96GB/s. The maximum energy consumption is 50 watts. According to Nvidia, the card offers a processing power of 2.7 TFLOPS (single precision).

If you want more, go for the Nvidia RTX A1000, which offers twice as much or more: 8 GB of GDDR6 RAM, 2,304 CUDA cores, 72 Tensor cores and a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s. Here too, the maximum consumption is 50 watts. The card delivers up to 6.7 TFLOPS of computing power (single precision).

Both graphics cards are compact and only require one PCI slot in height. The Nvidia RTX A1000 is available today. The Nvidia RTX A400 is expected in early May. Nvidia does not provide guide prices because the company does not produce the cards itself. For example, you rely on partners like PNY, who determine the price.