NVIDIA has unveiled two new Blackwell-architecture graphics playing cards, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF Version and RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell — each focusing on the acceleration of machine studying and synthetic intelligence (ML and AI) workloads on smaller type issue programs — and in a way more affordable 70W energy envelope.
“Purposes have gotten more and more AI accelerated, and extra customers want AI efficiency, regardless of the scale or form of their workstation,” claims NVIDIA’s Stacy Ozorio in assist of the corporate’s newest launch. “The RTX PRO 4000 SFF and RTX PRO 2000 function fourth-generation RT [Ray Tracing] Cores and fifth-generation Tensor Cores with decrease energy in half the scale of a conventional GPU. The brand new GPUs are designed to convey next-generation efficiency to a spread {of professional} workflows, offering unbelievable speedups for engineering, design, content material creation, AI and 3D visualization.”
NVIDIA has introduced two new small type issue GPUs, the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF (high) and RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell (above). (📷: NVIDIA)
The low-profile playing cards, designed to fit into small type issue programs the place full-size add-in boards are too tall, is predicated on NVIDIA’s Blackwell structure — the launch of which gave the corporate no small quantity of hassle owing to a since-rectified design flaw that lowered the variety of working chips manufacturing accomplice Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) may get from every silicon wafer.
Each playing cards are usually not solely smaller than earlier Blackwell boards, however significantly much less energy hungry with NVIDIA claiming a 70W most energy consumption even beneath load — but, the corporate says, the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF delivers “as much as” 2.5 occasions the AI efficiency, 1.7 occasions the ray-tracing efficiency, and 1.5 occasions the bandwidth of its predecessor. The RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell, in the meantime, is claimed to supply massive positive factors for on-device generative AI workloads with 1.4 occasions the efficiency for picture technology and a couple of.3 occasions for textual content technology in comparison with its last-generation equal.
The playing cards are each based mostly on NVIDIA’s newest Blackwell structure, which has had a bumpy highway to market. (📷: NVIDIA)
In precise specification phrases, that boils all the way down to: 8.960 CUDA cores, fifth-generation Tensor and fourth-generation RT cores, two ninth-gen NVENC encoders and two sixth-gen NVDEC decoders, 24GB of GDDR7 RAM with error correcting code (ECC) on a 192-bit interface with 432GB/s bandwidth, and a PCI Specific Gen. 5 eight-lane connection to the host for the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF; and 4,352 CUDA cores with fifth-generator Tensor and fourth-generation RT cores, one ninth-gen NVENC encoder and one sixth-gen NVDEC decoder, 16GB of GDDR7 RAM with ECC on a 128-bit interface with 288GB/s bandwidth, and the identical PCIe Gen. 5 eight-lane connection for the RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell. NVIDIA claims an “efficient FP4 AI TOPS” of 545 tera-operations per second (TOPS) for sparse work on the RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell, however has not launched an equal determine for the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF.
Extra info on the brand new add-in boards is obtainable on the NVIDIA web site on the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF and RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell product pages; the corporate has confirmed that each will launch “later this yr” from companions together with PNY, TD SYNNEX, BOXX, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, although had not but publicly disclosed pricing on the time of writing.
