Nvidia boosts the performance of its smallest workstation GPUs with the Blackwell upgrade
Nvidia Unveils Powerful New Workstation GPUs: RTX Pro 4000 SFF and RTX Pro 2000
Nvidia has recently introduced two new workstation GPUs, the RTX Pro 4000 SFF and RTX Pro 2000, designed for professional visualization and local AI workloads. These cards, which both utilise the Nvidia Blackwell architecture, offer significant improvements in performance and capabilities.
The RTX Pro 4000 SFF stands out as a significant upgrade over the RTX Pro 2000 in several key areas. It delivers about 1.7 times faster ray tracing, up to 2.5 times higher AI performance, and 1.5 times greater memory bandwidth compared to the RTX Pro 2000.
The RTX Pro 4000 SFF boasts 24GB of GDDR7 memory with around 432 GB/s bandwidth, whereas the RTX Pro 2000 has 16GB of GDDR7 and roughly 280 GB/s bandwidth. In terms of AI performance, the RTX Pro 4000 SFF has 280 tensor cores and is capable of delivering 770 teraFLOPS of FP4 performance, outperforming the RTX Pro 2000's up to 545 teraFLOPS of sparse FP4 compute.
On the other hand, the RTX Pro 2000 is best suited for professional visualization workloads, offering a sizable performance uplift, but its AI performance falls short of the RTX 4000 SFF. Nevertheless, it is notable considering its meager 70W TDP, as it still offers 1.6 times improvement in 3D modeling, 1.4 times higher performance in CAD, and 1.6 times faster rendering compared to its Ada Generation predecessor.
Both cards are optimized for compact, low-power professional workloads, with the RTX Pro 4000 SFF positioned for enhanced AI workflows, 3D visualization, and real-time ray tracing. For traditional engineering and CAD tasks, the RTX Pro 2000 still offers solid performance improvements.
In summary, the RTX Pro 4000 SFF is a significant upgrade over the RTX Pro 2000 in ray tracing quality, AI workload performance, and memory bandwidth, while both remain similarly power efficient and suited for compact workstation form factors.
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The new Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 SFF workstation GPU, which utilizes the Nvidia Blackwell architecture, provides a significant enhancement for AI workloads with up to 2.5 times higher AI performance compared to the RTX Pro 2000, showcasing the benefits of artificial-intelligence technology. Amongst all the gadgets available, these enterprise-focused GPUs are designed for professional visualization and local AI workloads, highlighting the role of technology in enhancing productivity for businesses.
