NVIDIA continues to build out its Blackwell GPU line with two new editions. The NVIDIA RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell Edition is designed as a successor to the NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF 20GB, but with an updated architecture and more memory. The NVIDIA RTX Pro 2000 is a lower-cost version that many may find interesting.
NVIDIA RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell Edition and RTX Pro 2000 Blackwell Announced
The first card is a dual-slot, low-profile SFF card, the NVIDIA RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell Edition. With Blackwell and 24GB of memory, this brings more to the small form factor workstation market.
Here is the quick spec table with 8960 CUDA cores, 24GB of GDDR7 (with ECC) and 432GB/s of memory bandwidth. Also, of note, this is a 70W card that uses PCIe Gen5 x8. Many SFF workstations only have x8 slots, even if the riser is x16, so that is a good upgrade over a PCIe Gen4 x16 interface even.
The second card is the NVIDIA RTX Pro 2000 Blackwell, another actively cooled 70W TDP card.
This one comes with fewer than half of the CUDA cores of the RTX Pro 4000 Blackwell with only 4352. Memory is only 16GB with 288GB/s of memory bandwidth. There are also only half of the NVENC and NVDEC engines for video encode/ decode on the lower-end model.
It is pretty clear that the RTX Pro 4000 Blackwell is a big step up from the RTX Pro 2000 Blackwell. At the same time, there are a lot of workstations that use these dGPUs just for extra display outputs and the RTX Pro 2000 Blackwell should be more than enough for that type of application.
Final Words
If you saw our Dell Precision 3280 Compact Review the NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada that went into it was a star. This NVIDIA RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell seems like taking that formula and making it even better. Hopefully, we will start to see these new GPUs show up in systems over the next few months.
