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Help Me Choose: Graphics Cards for Precision Workstations

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The Graphics Card (GPU) is a chipset that’s dedicated to processing visual information for your PC’s display. Selecting the right graphics card is critical to achieve optimal performance from graphics-intensive applications.

Dell Precision Workstations offer Independent Software Vendor (ISV)-certified graphics cards for demanding applications.

Professionals in media and entertainment, architecture and engineering will benefit the most from ISV-certified graphics cards.
Dell Precision™ fixed workstations come standard with discrete graphics cards that support professional 3D OpenGL® and DirectX® graphics. They also meet or exceed the minimum graphics requirements for most leading workstation-class applications.

Be sure to check the minimum and recommended graphics card requirements for the workstation application or applications that will be run on this workstation.
Workstation Usage Primary Focus Minimum Recommended Card Minimum Recommended Card Minimum Recommended Card
AMD NVIDIA® INTEL®
Compute AI/GenAI Large Language Models A800 40GB Active
Engineering Mechanical CAD (MCAD) Radeon Pro W7700 RTX 4000 Ada
Computer-Aided Engineering / Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Radeon Pro W7700 RTX 4000 Ada
Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Radeon Pro W7600 RTX 2000 Ada
Architecture, Engineering and Design (AEC) Radeon Pro W7700 RTX 4000 Ada
Real Time GPU Accelerated Rendering Radeon Pro W7900 RTX 5000 Ada
Mechanical Computer Aided Manufacturing (MCAM) Radeon Pro W7500 RTX 2000 Ada
Media and entertainment 3D Character Creation, Animation and Rendering Radeon Pro W7900 RTX 5000 Ada
Game Development Content Creation Radeon Pro W7900 RTX 5000 Ada
Film and Video Editing, Multimedia DVD/Blu-ray Authoring Radeon Pro W7700 RTX 4000 Ada
Broadcast and Post Production Radeon Pro W7700 RTX 4000 Ada
Image Editing and Prepress Page Design Radeon Pro W7600 RTX 2000 Ada
Real Time GPU Accelerated Rendering Radeon Pro W7900 RTX 5000 Ada
Professional Audio Production Radeon Pro W6400 T1000 8GB
Exploration and scientific Geosciences (Petroleum Exploration and Management) Radeon Pro W7900 RTX 6000 Ada
Geographic Information Systems Radeon Pro W7600 RTX 2000 Ada
Medical Imaging and Analysis Radeon Pro W7600 RTX 4000 Ada
Visual Simulation Radeon Pro W7600 RTX 4000 Ada
Testing Radeon Pro W6400 T1000 8GB
Economic and financial modeling Trading Station Radeon Pro W7500 T1000 8GB ARC A40-only for 34X0
Software development Microsoft® Visual Studio or C++ Radeon Pro W6400 T400 ARC A40-only for 34X0
Intel® Parallel Studio or Intel Compiler Radeon Pro W6400 T400 ARC A40-only for 34X0
Eclipse (Java™) (Linux®) Radeon Pro W6400 T400 ARC A40-only for 34X0

Need graphics card configuration guidance based on your software?

Choose a Dell Precision workstation that meets your computing needs and application specifications using our Dell Precision Workstation Advisor — an interactive tool that helps define your unique system configuration.

Independent Software Vendor (ISV) certification

Dell partners with industry-leading technology companies to solve today’s most complex problems of application computing. Our highly collaborative approach results in tested, optimized solutions that can help you cut costs, increase efficiency and productivity.

NVIDIA Graphics Cards

Graphics Card A800 40GB Active RTX 6000 Ada RTX 5000 Ada RTX 4500 Ada RTX 4000 Ada RTX 4000 SFF Ada
Nvidia CUDA Processing Cores 6,912 18,176 12,800 7,680 6,144 6,144
Nvidia RT Cores (3rd Gen) 142 100 60 48 48
Tensor Cores (4th Gen) 432 (3rd Gen) 468.0 400.0 240.0 192.0 192.0
Floating-Point Performance (TFLPS, Peak) 19.5 91.1 65.3 39.9 26.7 19.2
Tensor Performance (TFLPS, Peak) 623.8 1,457.0 1,044.4 637.8 427.6 306.8
Accelerated Double Percision (TFLOPS, Peak) 9.7
Memory 40GB HBM2 48GB GDDR6 with ECC 32GB GDDR6 with ECC 24GB GDDR6 with ECC 20GB GDDR6 with ECC 20GB GDDR6 with ECC
OpenGL 4.6 4.6 4.6 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3 3 3 3 3
DirectX 12 12 12 12 12
PCIe Support x16 Gen 4 x16 Gen 4 x16 Gen 4 x16 Gen 4 x16 Gen 4 x16 Gen 4
Max Resolution (#of DisplayPorts Used) No display I/O (headless) Must be paired with T1000 or equivalent for display output 4x 4096 x 2160 @ 120 Hz 4x 5120 x 2880 @ 60 Hz 2x 7680 x 4320 @ 60 Hz 4x 4096 x 2160 @ 120 Hz 4x 5120 x 2880 @ 60 Hz 2x 7680 x 4320 @ 60 Hz 4x 4096 x 2160 @ 120 Hz 4x 5120 x 2880 @ 60 Hz 2x 7680 x 4320 @ 60 Hz 4x 4096 x 2160 @ 120 Hz 4x 5120 x 2880 @ 60 Hz 2x 7680 x 4320 @ 60 Hz 4x 4096 x 2160 @ 120 Hz 4x 5120 x 2880 @ 60 Hz 2x 7680 x 4320 @ 60 Hz
Maximum Monitors using DP Multi-Stream (monitor to monitor connections) 4 4 4 4 4
Maximum Monitors (direct connections) 4 4 4 4 4
Maximum # of 4K x 2K (@ 60 Hz) 4 4 4 4 4
Maximum # of 5120 x 2880 (@ 60 Hz) 4 4 4 4 4
Video Connectors No display I/O 4x DisplayPort 1.4a 4x DisplayPort 1.4a 4x DisplayPort 1.4a 4x DisplayPort 1.4a 4x mini DisplayPort 1.4a
Card to Card Connectors None None None None None None
Included video adapters (with systems or customer kits) None None None None None 4x mDP to DP
Aux power connectors needed PCIe 16pin CEM5 PCIe PCIe 16pin CEM5 PCIe PCIe 16pin CEM5 PCIe PCIe 16pin CEM5 PCIe PCIe 16pin CEM5 PCIe PCIe4 x 16
Estimated max power 240W 300W 250W 210W 130W 70W
PCIe slot width 2 2 2 2 1 2
Product Weight 1181.9 g 1180 g 1079.7 g 1079.7 g 528 g 308 g (LP Bracket)

NVIDIA Graphics Cards

Graphics Card RTX 2000 Ada RTX A1000 RTX A400 T1000 8GB T400
Nvidia CUDA Processing Cores 2,816 2,304 768 896 384
Nvidia RT Cores (3rd Gen) 22 18 (2nd Gen) 24 (2nd Gen)
Tensor Cores (4th Gen) 88.0 72 (3rd Gen) 6 (3rd Gen)
Floating-Point Performance (TFLPS, Peak) 12.0 6.7 2.7 2.5
Tensor Performance (TFLPS, Peak) 191.9 53.8 21.7 1.0
Accelerated Double Percision (TFLOPS, Peak)
Memory 16GB GDDR6 with ECC 8GB GDDR6 4GB GDDR6 8GB GDDR6 4GB GDDR6
OpenGL 4.6 4.6 4.6 4.68 4.68
OpenCL 3 3 3 3.04 3.04
DirectX 12 12 12 12.07 12.07
PCIe Support x16 Gen 4 x8 Gen 4 x8 Gen 4 x16 Gen 3 x16 Gen 3
Max Resolution (#of DisplayPorts Used) 4x 4096 x 2160 @ 120 Hz 4x 5120 x 2880 @ 60 Hz 2x 7680 x 4320 @ 60 Hz 4x 4096 x 2160 @ 120Hz 4x 5120 x 2880 @ 60Hz 2x 7680 x 4320 @ 60Hz 4x 4096 x 2160 @ 120Hz 4x 5120 x 2880 @ 60Hz 4x 3840 x 2160 @ 120Hz 4x 5120 x 2880 @ 60Hz 2x 7680 x 4320 @ 60Hz 3x 3840 x 2160 @ 120Hz 3x 5120 x 2880 @ 60Hz
Maximum Monitors using DP Multi-Stream (monitor to monitor connections) 4 4 4 4 3
Maximum Monitors (direct connections) 4 4 4 4 3
Maximum # of 4K x 2K (@ 60 Hz) 4 4 4 4 3
Maximum # of 5120 x 2880 (@ 60 Hz) 4 4 4 4 3
Video Connectors 4x mini DisplayPort 1.4a 4x mini DisplayPort 1.4a 4x mini DisplayPort 1.4a 4x mini DisplayPort 1.4a 3x mini DisplayPort 1.4a
Card to Card Connectors None None None None None
Included video adapters (with systems or customer kits) 4x mDP to DP 4x mDP to DP 4x mDP to DP 4x mDP to DP x3 mDP to DP
Aux power connectors needed PCIe4 x 8 PCIe4 x 8 PCIe4 x 8 PCIe3 x 16 PCIe3 x 16
Estimated max power 70W 50W 50W 50W 30W
PCIe slot width 2 1 1 1 1
Product Weight 296 g (LP Bracket) 308 g (ATX Bracket) 140 g (LP Bracket) 146 g (ATX Bracket) 140 g (LP Bracket) 146 g (ATX Bracket) 133 g (LP Bracket) 145 g (ATX Bracket) 124 g (LP Bracket) 136 g (ATX Bracket)

Radeon Pro Graphics Cards

Graphics Card W7900 W7700 W7600 W7500 W6400 W6300
Stream Processors 6,144 3,072 2,048 1,792 768 768
Compute Units 96 48 32 28 12 12
Floating-Point 16 Performance (TFLOPS, Peak) 122.6 56.5 40.0 24.4 7.1 7.1
Memory 48GB GDDR6 with ECC 16GB GDDR6 with ECC 8GB GDDR6 8GB GDDR6 4GB GDDR6 2GB GDDR6
OpenGL 4.6 4.6 4.6 4.6 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2 2.1 2 2 2.2 2.2
DirectX 12 12 12 12 12 12
PCIe Support x16 Gen 4 x16 Gen 4 x8 Gen 4 x8 Gen 4 x4 Gen 4 x4 Gen 4
Max Resolution (#of DisplayPorts Used) 4x 4096 x 2160 (4K DCI) @ 120Hz with DSC 2x 6144 x 3456 (6K) 12-bit HDR @ 60Hz Uncompressed 1x 7680 x 4320 (8K) 12-bit HDR @ 60Hz Uncompressed 1x 12288 x 6912 (12K) @ 120Hz with DSC 4x 4096 x 2160 (4K DCI) 2x 6144 x 3456 (6K) 1x 7680 x 4320 (8K) 1x 12288 x 6912 (12K 4x @ 3840x2160px (4K) 4x @ 5120x2880px (5K) 2x @ 7680x4320px (8K) 4x @ 3840x2160px (4K) 4x @ 5120x2880px (5K) 2x @ 7680x4320px (8K) 2x @ 3840x2160px (4K) 2x @ 5120x2880px (5K) 1x @ 7680x4320px (8K) 4x 4096 x 2160 @ 120Hz 4x 5120 x 2880 @ 60Hz
Maximum Monitors using DP Multi-Stream (monitor to monitor connections) 4 4 4 4 2 2
Video Connectors 3x DisplayPort 2.1 1x Enhanced mini DisplayPort 2.1 4x DisplayPort 2.1 4x DisplayPort 2.1 4x DisplayPort 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Card to Card Connectors None None None None None None
Included video adapters (with systems or customer kits) 1x mDP to DP None None None None None
Aux power connectors needed 2x 8-pin 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin PCIe Powered PCIe Powered PCIe Powered
Estimated max power 295W 190W 130W 70W 50W 32W
PCIe slot width 3 2 1 1 1 1
Product Weight 1360.8 g 1079.7 g 952.5 g 703.1 g 160 g (LP Bracket) 170 g (ATX Bracket) 130 g (LP Bracket) 140 g (ATX Bracket)

Intel® Arc™ Pro Graphics Cards

Precision™ Dell Precision™
Performance High-end 3D & compute
Graphics card Intel®
Arc™
Pro A40
PCIe slot width 1
Memory (GDDR5) 6GB GDDR6
AI Hardware Acceleration Yes
OpenGL® 4.6
Open CL 3.0
DirectX® 12 Ultimate
PCIe support x16 Gen 4.0
Max Resolution (# of DisplayPorts used) 4x3840 x 2160 @ 60 Hz, 2 x 5120x 288 0 @ 12 0Hz 2x7680x4320 @ 60Hz
Maximum Monitors using DP Multi-Stream(monitor to monitor connections) 4
Maximum monitors (direct connection) 4
Max # of 4Kx2K displays @ 60hz 4
Max # of 5120x2880 pixel displays @ 60hz 4
Video connectors 4 mini-DisplayPort 2.0 Ready
card to card connectors None
Included video adapters (with systems or customer kits) None
Aux power connectors needed None
Est. max power 50W Peak
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Intel® Arc™ Pro Graphics Cards

The Intel® Arc™ Pro range of GPU’s are carefully designed for professional workstation uses. With dedicated hardware for AI, Ray Tracing and Media Encoding, these PCIe 4.0 GPUs are great for computer aided design and modelling (CAD/CAM), media, and AI inference tasks in dedicated business environments. These capabilities are further enhanced with support for up to four Ultra-large, high-dynamic range (HDR) displays via mini-DP 2.0 ready connectors.

The entire range of Intel Arc Pro A-series workstation graphics cards are certified for the most-common independent software vendor (ISV) applications and backed by a quarterly driver release for regular performance optimizations.

Precision Mobile Workstation Graphics

Dell Precision™ mobile workstations come standard with discrete graphics cards that support professional 3D OpenGL® and DirectX® graphics. They also meet or exceed the minimum graphics requirements for most leading workstation-class applications.

Be sure to check the minimum and recommended graphics card requirements for the workstation application or applications that will be run on this workstation.
Workstation Usage Primary Focus Minimum Recommended GPU
NVIDIA®
Compute AI/GenAI Large Language Models RTX 5000 Ada
Engineering Mechanical CAD (MCAD) RTX 4000 Ada
Computer-Aided Engineering / Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) RTX 4000 Ada
Electronic Design Automation (EDA) RTX 3000 Ada
Architecture, Engineering and Design (AEC) RTX 4000 Ada
Real Time GPU Accelerated Rendering RTX 5000 Ada
Mechanical Computer Aided Manufacturing (MCAM) RTX 3000 Ada
Media and entertainment 3D Character Creation, Animation and Rendering RTX 5000 Ada
Game Development Content Creation RTX 5000 Ada
Film and Video Editing, Multimedia DVD/Blu-ray Authoring RTX 4000 Ada
Broadcast and Post Production RTX 3000 Ada
Image Editing and Prepress Page Design RTX 2000 Ada
Real Time GPU Accelerated Rendering RTX 5000 Ada
Professional Audio Production RTX 2000 Ada
Exploration and scientific Geosciences (Petroleum Exploration and Management) RTX 5000 Ada
Geographic Information Systems RTX 3000 Ada
Medical Imaging and Analysis RTX 4000 Ada
Visual Simulation RTX 2000 Ada
Testing RTX 1000 Ada
Economic and financial modeling Trading Station RTX 1000 Ada
Software development Microsoft® Visual Studio or C++ RTX 500 Ada
Intel® Parallel Studio or Intel Compiler RTX 500 Ada
Eclipse (Java™) (Linux®) RTX 500 Ada

Need graphics card configuration guidance based on your software?

Choose a Dell Precision workstation that meets your computing needs and application specifications using our Dell Precision Workstation Advisor — an interactive tool that helps define your unique system configuration.

Independent Software Vendor (ISV) certification

Dell partners with industry-leading technology companies to solve today’s most complex problems of application computing. Our highly collaborative approach results in tested, optimized solutions that can help you cut costs, increase efficiency and productivity.

NVIDIA Graphics Cards

Graphics Card RTX 5000 Ada RTX 4000 Ada RTX 3500 Ada RTX 3000 Ada RTX 2000 Ada RTX 1000 Ada RTX 500 Ada
Nvidia CUDA Processing Cores 9,728 7,424 5,120 4,608 3,072 2,560 2,048
Nvidia RT Cores (3rd Gen) 76 58 40 36 24 20 16
Tensor Cores (4th Gen) 304.0 232.0 160.0 144.0 88.0 80.0 64.0
Floating-Point Performance (TFLPS, Peak) 42.6 33.6 23.0 19.9 14.5 12.1 9.2
Tensor Performance (TFLPS, Peak) 681.8 538.0 368.6 318.6 231.6 193.0 147.4
Memory 16GB GDDR6 with ECC 12GB GDDR6 with ECC 12GB GDDR6 with ECC 8GB GDDR6 with ECC 8GB GDDR6 6GB GDDR6 4GB GDDR6
Memory Interface 256-bit 192-bit 192-bit 128-bit 128-bit 96-bit 64-bit
PCIe Support Gen 4 Gen 4 Gen 4 Gen 4 Gen 4 Gen 4 Gen 4
DisplayPort Support 1.4a 1.4a 1.4a 1.4a 1.4a 1.4a 1.4a
TGP Max Power 80-175W 60-175W 60-140W 35-140W 35-140W 35-140W 35-60W
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Intel® Arc™ Pro Mobile Graphics Cards

Intel for many professional users equates to years of extensive trust and outstanding reliability, and this latest range of professional mobile GPUs continue to build on that. It’s likely you have been using Intel Integrated graphics for years, which makes moving to more powerful, dedicated mobile graphics from Intel a wise and easy choice.

With built-in AI capabilities, ray tracing hardware, graphics acceleration, media acceleration, and independent software vendor (ISV) certifications, the Intel® Arc™ Pro GPU series unite fluid viewports, the latest in visual technologies, and rich content creation in a high-performing Mobile Graphics Chip.

Faster video encoding with AV1 support
  • Require less data to deliver exceptional video quality.
  • Allow users to create, stream, transmit, and consume high quality AV1 content.
 AI powered creation with Intel® XMX
  • Edit photos and videos quickly and easily.
  • Streamlines painstaking and time-consuming tasks for users.
  • Enhances design capabilities.
 Optimized performance with Intel® Deep Link
  • Provide higher performance, better streaming and faster creation for users plugged-in or on-the-go.
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