900-5G190-1700-000 Nvidia RTX A4000 16GB GDDR6 PCI-E 4.0 X16 Graphics Card

Comprehensive Product Overview

General Information

• Brand Name: Nvidia
• Part Number: 900-5G190-1700-000
• Product Type: Graphics Card

Technical Specifications

• Model Identifier: RTX A4000
• Series Classification: RTX 
• Installed VRAM: 16GB GDDR6
• Memory Interface: 256-bit bandwidth
• Bus Standard: PCI Express 4.0 x16

Connectivity & Slot Design

Display Output Options

• Video Ports: 4x DisplayPort
• Power Connector: Single 6-pin input
• Slot Profile: Slim single-slot layout

Top Benefits

• High-efficiency rendering for professional workloads
• Robust memory capacity for intensive graphics tasks
• Compact form factor ideal for space-constrained builds
• Reliable PCIe Gen 4.0 interface for faster data throughput

Ideal Use Cases

• 3D modeling and CAD applications
• AI and machine learning workloads
• Multi-display workstation setups
• Enterprise-grade visualization tasks

Nvidia 900-5G190-1700-000 16GB Graphics Card

The Nvidia RTX A4000, with model number 900-5G190-1700-000, represents a significant achievement in professional workstation graphics. It condenses the power of NVIDIA's Ampere architecture into a efficient, single-slot form factor, delivering exceptional performance for a wide range of professional applications. Designed for engineers, designers, content creators, and data scientists, this GPU provides a compelling blend of computational power, visual fidelity, and versatility without demanding excessive physical space within a chassis.

Key Specifications

At the heart of the 900-5G190-1700-000 RTX A4000 lies the Nvidia Ampere architecture, a generational leap in performance and efficiency. This architecture is built upon enhanced Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), second-generation RT Cores for ray tracing, and third-generation Tensor Cores for AI acceleration.

Nvidia Ampere Streaming Multiprocessors

The Ampere SM delivers a substantial performance uplift over previous generations. It features concurrent execution of FP32 and INT32 operations, allowing the GPU to better handle complex workloads and modern graphics pipelines. This results in significantly higher throughput for both professional visualization and compute tasks.

CUDA Core Count and Performance

The 900-5G190-1700-000 RTX A4000 is equipped with 6,144 CUDA Cores. These parallel processing cores are the workhorses of the GPU, handling the vast majority of computational tasks. The high core count, combined with the architectural improvements of Ampere, enables the A4000 to tackle demanding simulations, high-resolution rendering, and complex computations with remarkable speed.

Second-Generation RT Cores

Dedicated to ray tracing, the second-generation RT Cores in the Ampere architecture are up to twice as fast as their predecessors. They efficiently calculate how light and sound travel in a 3D environment in real-time, enabling incredibly realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections. For professionals, this means faster and more interactive design reviews, architectural visualizations, and virtual prototyping with photorealistic quality.

Real-Time Ray Tracing for Professionals

Applications like Nvidia Omniverse, Autodesk Arnold, V-Ray, and Blender Cycles can leverage these RT Cores to dramatically accelerate the rendering of final-frame images. This allows creators and designers to iterate more quickly and achieve higher-fidelity results in less time.

Acceleration and DLSS

In professional contexts, Tensor Cores accelerate AI-powered tools for noise reduction in rendering, style transfer, and data analytics. For real-time visualization, DLSS uses AI to intelligently upscale lower-resolution images, providing higher frame rates while maintaining crisp, high-quality visuals, which is invaluable for real-time design applications and virtual reality.

Memory Subsystem: 16 GB of GDDR6 with ECC

A critical component for professional workloads is video memory. The 900-5G190-1700-000 RTX A4000 is outfitted with a substantial 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, operating across a wide 256-bit memory interface.

High-Bandwidth Memory Interface

The 256-bit memory bus is a key differentiator, providing the high bandwidth necessary to feed the powerful Ampere GPU with data without creating a bottleneck. This ensures that large textures, complex 3D models, and massive datasets can be accessed quickly, maintaining smooth performance and responsiveness.

Memory Bandwidth and Speed

This memory configuration delivers a peak bandwidth of 448 GB/s. This high-speed data path is essential for data-intensive tasks such as working with 8K video footage, rendering complex scenes with millions of polygons, or running large-scale simulations where data is constantly swapped between the GPU and its memory.

Error Correction Code (ECC) Memory

For mission-critical applications in fields like scientific computing, engineering analysis, and financial modeling, data integrity is paramount. The RTX A4000's graphics memory supports Error Correction Code (ECC). ECC can detect and correct single-bit memory errors in real-time, preventing silent data corruption that could lead to incorrect calculations, system crashes, or flawed results, thereby ensuring uncompromising reliability and accuracy.

Form Factor and Power Design

The physical design of the 900-5G190-1700-000 RTX A4000 is one of its most defining features, engineered for maximum compatibility and deployment flexibility.

Single-Slot Cooling 

Nvidia has engineered a highly efficient blower-style cooler that fits within a single PCIe slot. This is a crucial feature for workstations with limited expansion space, such as small form factor (SFF) systems or multi-GPU configurations. The blower design exhausts hot air directly out the back of the chassis, preventing heat buildup inside the case, which is ideal when installing multiple GPUs in close proximity.

Thermal and Acoustic Performance

Despite its compact cooling system, the A4000 is designed to maintain optimal operating temperatures under sustained full load. The thermal solution is tuned to balance cooling performance with acoustics, ensuring the workstation remains relatively quiet during intensive tasks.

Power Consumption and Connector

The 900-5G190-1700-000 RTX A4000 has a Thermal Design Power (TDP) of 140 watts. This level of power efficiency for its performance class is a direct benefit of the 8nm Ampere architecture. It is powered by a single 6-pin PCIe power connector, a common and readily available power cable. This makes it easier to integrate into a wider range of workstations, including those that may not have the newer 8-pin connectors or multiple power leads available.

Display and Connectivity Capabilities

The card is equipped with a comprehensive set of display outputs, supporting a multi-monitor environment essential for professional workflows.

Quad DisplayPort 1.4 Outputs

The RTX A4000 features four DisplayPort 1.4 connectors. This high-bandwidth interface supports resolutions up to 8K at 60Hz per display, along with HDR and deep color. It allows professionals to drive up to four high-resolution monitors simultaneously from a single card, creating an expansive digital canvas for multitasking across applications.

AV1 Decode 

Leveraging the Ampere architecture's dedicated hardware, the RTX A4000 includes a next-generation decoder. It provides support for AV1 decode, a modern, royalty-free video codec that offers approximately 50% better data compression than H.264. This enables smoother playback of high-resolution AV1 content and more efficient processing of video files encoded with this emerging standard.

Nvidia CUDA Technology

The A4000 fully supports the CUDA parallel computing platform. This allows developers and researchers to harness the parallel processing power of the GPU's CUDA Cores to accelerate their own custom applications, speeding up tasks in fields like computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, seismic processing, and computational finance.

Nvidia VR Ready

The card is certified as VR Ready. It delivers the performance and low latency required for a high-quality virtual reality experience, making it suitable for professional VR applications in architecture, product design, training simulations, and scientific visualization.

Ideal Use Cases and Professional Workflows

The specific combination of features in the RTX A4000 makes it exceptionally well-suited for a diverse range of professional tasks.

Real-Time Rendering and Visualization

For real-time visualization in tools like Unreal Engine and Nvidia Omniverse, the RT and Tensor Cores enable real-time ray tracing and AI-accelerated denoising, allowing designers and architects to present and iterate on photorealistic models interactively.

GPU-Accelerated Rendering

In offline rendering with engines like Arnold, Redshift, and V-Ray, the A4000's CUDA, RT, and Tensor Cores work in concert to drastically reduce render times, moving from hours to minutes and enabling faster creative iteration cycles.

System Integration and Compatibility

Integrating the 900-5G190-1700-000 RTX A4000 into a workstation is a straightforward process, thanks to its standard form factor and power requirements.

PCI Express 4.0 

The card utilizes the PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. When installed in a compatible motherboard with a supported CPU, PCIe 4.0 offers double the bandwidth of PCIe 3.0. This ensures the fastest possible data transfer between the GPU and the rest of the system, which can benefit workloads that involve constantly streaming large amounts of data to and from the GPU.

Backward Compatibility

It is important to note that the RTX A4000 is fully backward compatible with PCIe 3.0 motherboards. The card will function perfectly but will be limited to PCIe 3.0 speeds, which is still sufficient for the vast majority of professional applications.