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NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada
$3800$4000 MSRP
The NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada provides 32GB of GDDR6 ECC memory in a workstation form factor. It matches the RTX 5090's VRAM capacity with the reliability and driver support expected in professional environments. Ideal for AI inference deployments that need ECC memory and ISV-certified drivers, though consumer cards offer better price-to-performance for home use.
Best ForReliable 32GB workstation builds with professional driver support
VerdictThe professional alternative to the RTX 5090 — pay more for ECC and certified drivers.
AI
9/10
Gaming
4/10
Specifications
VRAM32GB GDDR6 ECC
Memory Bandwidth576 GB/s
CUDA Cores12,800
Boost Clock2550 MHz
TDP250W
Power Connector1x 8-pin
Length267mm
Form FactorDual Slot
Release Year2023
AI Capabilities
Unrivaled32GB VRAM
Run 70B+ models, no compromises. The AI power user's dream.
Can run (Q4 quantized)
Llama 3.1 8BQwen 2.5 32BQwen 2.5 14BMistral 7BFLUX.1 DevStable Diffusion XLStable Diffusion 3.5 LargeHunyuanVideoCogVideoX-5BMochi 1LTX VideoStable Video DiffusionWan Video 14BCodestral 22BQwen 2.5 Coder 32BLLaVA 1.6 34BAlphaFold 2ESMFold (ESM-2 15B)ESM-2 3BscGPTRFdiffusionFine-tune Llama 8BTrain SDXL LoRATrain FLUX LoRA
Tight fit (may need CPU offload)
Llama 3.1 70B (40GB Q4)Qwen 2.5 72B (42GB Q4)DeepSeek R1 70B (40GB Q4)Fine-tune Llama 70B (40GB Q4)
Recommended system RAM for AI: 64GB+ (2x GPU VRAM for model overflow)
Performance Estimates
Estimated tokens/sec for LLM inference based on 576 GB/s memory bandwidth — not hardware benchmarks. Methodology · What is Q4/Q8?
Llama 3.1 70B70B
Offload~1-3 tok/sVery slowLlama 3.1 8B8B
FP16~20-25 tok/sUsableQwen 2.5 72B72B
Offload~1-3 tok/sVery slowQwen 2.5 32B32B
Q8~11-13 tok/sSlowQwen 2.5 14B14B
FP16~12-14 tok/sSlowMistral 7B7B
FP16~23-29 tok/sUsableDeepSeek R1 70B70B
Offload~1-3 tok/sVery slowCodestral 22B22B
Q8~16-19 tok/sUsableQwen 2.5 Coder 32B32B
Q8~11-13 tok/sSlowPros
- +32GB ECC VRAM
- +Lower power than RTX 6000
- +Blower cooler for dense setups
Cons
- -Very expensive
- -Lower bandwidth than consumer cards
- -Workstation drivers
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