Nvidia RTX 6000 GPU price leak confirms your worst fears
How much is too much for Nvidia’s professional GPU?
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Nvidia’s RTX 6000 is set for release very shortly - but a leak suggests thegraphics cardcould top $8,000.
According toVideoCardz, the GPU has already been spotted on several US retailers, with prices ranging from $7,378 to $8,210. And even for a professional graphics card, that’s pretty pricey.
To put that cost into perspective, Nvidia’s latest consumer GPU, theGeForce RTX 4080, retails for a little over $1,000, while close competitorAMDRadeon W6800 is selling at around the $4,000 mark.
Is it worth it?
The much-anticipated GPU is no doubt a design visualization workhorse, destined to earn its place in the computers of engineers, artists, and those running high-endarchitecture softwareandrendering software.
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Built on the company’s Ada Lovelace Architecture, Nvidia’s ownspecsconfirms the GPU memory runs 48GB GDDR6 ECC RAM on a 384-bit bus, and boasts fourth-generation Tensor Cores that, says Nvidia, “provide faster AI compute performance, delivering more than 2X the performance of the previous generation.” Max power consumption hits a power-hungry 300W.. And, yes, it’s VR-ready.
Those aren’t the only specs revealed, with graphics card manufacturerLeadtekdropping further details on what to expect from Nvidia’s latest offering. This includes single precision performance at 91.1 TFLOPS.
So, overall, engineers, artists, architects, and the like can look forward to vastly improved workflows. But if VideoCardz’ spot is correct, they may have to dig deep to afford it - although the website admits users “can actually find lower prices still, however, those are early listings from relatively unpopular shops.”
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Hopefully, skirting that price point, it’ll be easier to find than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080, which suffered so many stock shortages, we ran a live blog detailingwhere to buy the graphic card.
Steve is TechRadar Pro’s B2B Editor for Creative & Hardware. He began in tech journalism reviewing photo editors and video editing software at the magazine Web User, where he also covered technology news, features, and how-to guides. Today, he and his team of reviewers test out a range of creative software, hardware, and office furniture. Once upon a time, he wrote TV commercials and movie trailers. Relentless champion of the Oxford comma.
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