Nvidia Unveils RTX 5880 Ada for China: 25% Performance Cut!

The 2024 CES event has come to a close, and NVIDIA has unveiled the long-rumored RTX 40 SUPER series graphics cards during this event, which many friends have been eagerly anticipating.

However, NVIDIA’s upcoming releases are not limited to just these. Recently, the company quietly launched another long-rumored graphics card, and it is a custom edition specifically designed for the Chinese market. This is the RTX 5880 Ada, a workstation-grade graphics card suitable for 3D modeling, rendering, data visualization, and other fields.

RTX 5880 Ada, to circumvent restrictions, is derived from the RTX 6000 Ada with downgrades and reductions. Therefore, the most noteworthy aspects of this graphics card are twofold: first, how much it has been downsized compared to RTX 6000 Ada, and second, the reference price.

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RTX 5880 ADA Specifications

For easy reader comparison, the parameters of RTX 6000 Ada and RTX 5880 Ada are introduced separately:

RTX 6000 Ada was released on December 3, 2022, based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, using the AD-102 GPU, TSMC 4nm process, with 18,176 CUDA cores, 192 raster units, 568 texture units, 142 multi-core streaming processors, 512 tensor cores, 142 ray tracing cores, and a 96MB L2 cache.

The standard operating frequency is 915 MHz, with a maximum operating frequency of 2505 MHz, equipped with 48GB GDDR6 memory, a memory bus width of 384 bits, a memory speed of 20 Gbps, a memory bandwidth of 960.0 GB/s, an FP32 floating-point performance of 91.06 TFLOPS, power consumption of 300W, and a suggested retail price of $6,799.

RTX 5880 Ada has not been officially released yet. It is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, featuring the AD-102 GPU, TSMC 4-nanometer process, 14080 CUDA cores, an unknown number of raster units, 440 texture units, 110 multi-core streaming processors, 440 tensor cores, 110 ray tracing cores, and a 72MB L2 cache.

The standard and maximum operating frequencies are currently unknown, but the expected maximum operating frequency is around 2500 MHz. It comes with 48GB of GDDR6 memory, a memory width of 384 bits, a memory speed of 18 Gbps, a memory bandwidth of 960.0GB/s, an FP32 floating-point performance of 65.28 TFLOPS, and a power consumption of 285W.

In comparison, the RTX 5880 has about 23% fewer CUDA cores than the RTX 6000 Ada, only 10% more than the RTX 5000 Ada. However, there is minimal change in terms of memory width and memory capacity.

Due to reduced performance, the power consumption of RTX 5880 Ada is 15W lower than RTX 6000 Ada, approximately 5%, but still 14% higher than RTX 5000 Ada.

Overall, the performance gap between RTX 5880 Ada and RTX 6000 Ada is significant and estimated to be around a quarter lower.

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Reference Price for RTX 5880 Ada

Currently, there is no reliable leaked reference price for RTX 5880 Ada. The suggested retail price for RTX 6000 Ada is $6799, and for RTX 5000 Ada, it’s $3999. Logically, the performance of RTX 5880 Ada should fall between the two, and its price should also be in that range.

However, the actual situation may differ. Previously, Nvidia released a custom version graphics card, GeForce RTX 4090D, for the Chinese market. Despite a significant performance decrease, its price remains the same as the original GeForce RTX 4090, at $1599.

Therefore, estimating the price of RTX 5880 Ada is challenging. It is expected not to be much cheaper than RTX 6000 Ada. On the other hand, discussing the official suggested retail price for RTX 5880 Ada is meaningless, as it is expected to be difficult to purchase at the market’s original price.

Additionally, although this RTX 5880 Ada graphics card is customized for the Chinese market, it is rumored to be available in other global markets as well.

Stay tuned for more updates on RTX 5880 Ada from us.

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