Nvidia updates its entire mobile workstation graphics card lineup to Ada Lovelace, also launching an RTX 4000 SFF card.

At the end of January, Nvidia announced the first professional graphics card that uses the new Ada Lovelace architecture: RTX 6000 Ada Generation. This powerhouse featured 48GB of GDDR6 ECC memory, 18,176 CUDA cores, 568 Tensor cores, and 142 RT cores. Since then, the rest of the line-up has remained quiet until now.

Nvidia is not yet announcing any new desktop models, but is launching the full mobile line-up. Only in the lower area does the offer remain unchanged. The RTX A1000 and RTX A500 are still closing the ranks a year after their launch. These two GPUs run on the older Ampere architecture.

Ada Lovelace Mobile GPUs

The new chips all use the Ada Lovelace architecture. According to Nvidia, the GPUs double the performance compared to amps. The new architecture is also much more energy efficient, which is a handy bonus in a workstation.

The new Ada Lovelace graphics cards have more CUDA cores than their predecessors, more RT cores (3rd generation) and more Tensor cores (4th generation). For the first time, the mobile RTX 5000 Ada generation exceeds the 16 GB memory (GDDR6 ECC) cap.

RTX cards enjoy additional optimizations that traditional Nvidia GeForce GPUs don’t have through the Studio drivers. For example, Nvidia RTX GPUs work closely with 110+ creative apps to deliver better stability and clean performance through dedicated enterprise drivers.

RTX 4000 SFF GPU of the Ada generation

In addition to the complete renewal of the mobile line-up, Nvidia is also making a desktop GPU available under the name RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation. SFF stands for Small Form Factor, which means that the card is suitable for compact desktop systems. It’s only the second RTX Ada Lovelace desktop card after the RTX 6000.

The RTX 4000 SFF has 6,144 CUDA cores, 192 Tensor cores and 48 RT cores on board. The card is equipped with 20 GB GDDR6 with ECC. The maximum consumption is 70 watts to realistically fill the compact spaces in SFF PCs. The card has a suggested retail price of $1,250 and is available through resellers worldwide.

Confusing names

By the way, do not call the Nvidia RTX cards Quadro cards, since Nvidia abandoned this sub-brand a while ago. Unfortunately, a consistent new naming strategy is still missing. For clarity, look for ‘Nvidia RTX Ada Generation’, not to be confused with the Nvidia RTX A-Series, because that’s the predecessor, and also not Quadro RTX because it’s even older.