Nvidia RTX 5880 Ada
Professional Ada Lovelace GPU for AI rendering and visualization.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why choose the RTX 5880 Ada?
48GB GDDR6 with Ada Lovelace FP8 Tensor Cores. Professional workstation GPU with ECC memory. Good balance of AI and visualization capabilities.
When is the RTX 5880 Ada not a good fit?
Workstation pricing. For pure AI workloads in the cloud, the L40S is more cost-effective with equivalent specs.
Are RTX 5880 Ada prices going up or down?
On-demand pricing has increased by about 48% since January 2026, from $0.41 to $0.60/hr per GPU.
What size AI models can the RTX 5880 Ada run?
With 48GB of VRAM, the RTX 5880 Ada can typically run models up to about 30B parameters in FP16, or 70B-class models in 4-bit quantized form for inference.
How much VRAM does the RTX 5880 Ada have?
The RTX 5880 Ada has 48GB of VRAM. Multi-GPU setups increase total memory, but that memory is not automatically pooled across GPUs.
What is the RTX 5880 Ada's memory bandwidth?
The RTX 5880 Ada has 960 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Higher bandwidth helps with faster data transfer between GPU memory and compute cores.
What data types does the RTX 5880 Ada support?
The RTX 5880 Ada supports 6 precision formats. Training: BF16, FP16, TF32, FP32. Inference: FP8, INT8.
Does the RTX 5880 Ada support NVLink?
No. The RTX 5880 Ada is a PCIe-only GPU with no NVLink, so it is better suited to single-GPU inference and smaller-scale workloads than large distributed training jobs.
Technical Specifications
| GPU Memory | 48GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Interface | 384-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 960 GB/s |
| NVIDIA Ada Lovelace Architecture-based CUDA Cores | 14,080 |
| NVIDIA Fourth-generation Tensor Cores | 440 |
| NVIDIA Third-generation RT Cores | 110 |
| Single-Precision Performance | 69.3 TFLOPS |
| RT Core Performance | 160.2 TFLOPS |
| Tensor Performance | 1108.4 TFLOPS |
| System Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Power Consumption | Total board power: 285 W |
| Thermal Solution | Active |
| Form Factor | 4.4" H x 10.5" L, dual slot |
| Display Connectors | 4x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Encode/Decode Engines | 3x encode, 3x decode (with AV1 support) |
| VR Ready | Yes |
| vGPU Software Support | NVIDIA vPC/vApps, NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation |
| Graphics APIs | DirectX 12, Shader Model 6.6, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3 |
| Compute APIs | CUDA 11.6, OpenCL 3.0, DirectCompute |
| NVIDIA NVLink | No |
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