The US authorities bans new NVIDIA graphics playing cards in China (and different nations). This time, it’s the Quadro vary that falls underneath the US sanctions. Indeed, the RTX 6000 Ada is now affected!
RTX 6000 Ada: finito in China!
As a reminder, the RTX 6000 Ada is an expert card based mostly on the AD102 GPU, a mannequin just like that of the RTX 4090. However, it is available in a extra full model, with 142 of the 144 energetic SMs. This makes for a big card with 18176 cuda cores.
Unlike the H100, H800, & Co, the cardboard will not be meant for AI-related actions, however fairly for rendering duties, 3D modeling and so forth. However, the cardboard’s efficiency locations it among the many sanctioned fashions. Incidentally, it’s not the one one to be affected by these new restrictions, because the A30, A40, L4, L40 and non-Ada RTX 6000 are additionally involved. It would additionally seem that the RTX 3090/Ti are additionally affected, however that is still to be seen.
Note, nevertheless, that within the case of the 4090, the reseller could also be granted an export license. In this case, we’re speaking a few card with Total Processing Performance above 4800 TPP. So, in idea, the cardboard will not be completely banned from China, though it stays to be seen how typically authorizations will probably be issued. Otherwise, within the datacenter sector, something above 4800 TPP is robotically banned. Authorizations will be issued if efficiency doesn’t exceed this restrict, and if the efficiency density doesn’t exceed 6!
Meanwhile, in China, as we reported right here, there’s a rush to succeed in 4090. After the announcement of the cardboard ban, costs started to soar. Right now, it’s not arduous to search out playing cards promoting for 3/4x NVIDIA’s really useful retail worth. Some fashions, such because the RTX 4090 Matrix, are promoting for 5x the really useful retail worth!
