Black CaT Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Today we're taking a look at the Nvidia RTX A4000. That's the full product name, and it's probably not what some of you think it is. This isn't a member of the rumored next-gen GeForce RTX 4000 series, but rather an Ampere-based GPU designed for workstation PCYou might be wondering, why then are we looking at it given our focus is on gaming hardware? Recently we got some inquiries about this graphics card along the lines of "would you consider buying an RTX A4000 over the RTX 3070 for gaming, and if so how much extra would you spend on the A4000?"s. Interesting point, since you can actually buy the RTX A4000 on retail. As of writing, you can buy an RTX 3070 over at Newegg and a few other places for around $1,000, while the RTX 3070 Ti version starts at $1,200. Meanwhile, the RTX A4000 can be had for around $1,300, or about 30% more than the vanilla RTX 3070. Now before we get to testing. What is the RTX A4000? Clearly, this isn't a GeForce product, that much we can tell by looking at the branding. Earlier this year Nvidia dropped the "Quadro" moniker for their workstation products, simply going with RTX A2000, A4000, A5000 and A6000, for the various Ampere-based workstation GPUs. In short, the RTX A4000 uses the same GA104 silicon as the RTX 3070 Ti, meaning it has 6144 CUDA cores, 192 TAUs and 96 ROPs. However, there are a number of key differences between how the A4000 and RTX 3070 Ti are configured First, the cores. Where the RTX 3070 Ti cores operate at a base frequency of 1575 MHz with a boost of 1770 MHz, the A4000 cores clock as low as 735 MHz with a boost of just 1560 MHz. That means under load the RTX 3070 Ti should clock at least 13% higher than the A4000. Not a huge difference, but there's another specification that could have a more serious influence on performance, and that is the GDDR memory. https://www.techspot.com/review/2342-nvidia-rtx-a4000/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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