Nvidia introduced the RTX Pro 6000 (Blackwell) graphics card targeted at professionals and data centers a few months ago. Perhaps as a result, partners are beginning to sell off stockpiles of older RTX 5000 Ada GPUs, especially mobile versions. Zotac, via 孤城Hardware, seems to have leftover MXM RTX 5000 Ada silicon that it is now offloading in the Chinese market.
The MXM (Mobile PCI Express Module) form factor is predominantly utilized in laptops and mobile workstations. Consequently, the graphics cards are generally the mobile variants of their desktop counterparts, which results in diminished performance levels. The MXM RTX 5000 Ada version possesses 24% fewer CUDA cores and half the memory capacity of the desktop RTX 5000 Ada card.
Compared to the RTX 5000 Ada, which has a 250W TDP, the mobile version operates at 120W, thereby facilitating easier thermal management within a laptop. Consequently, the MXM RTX 5000 Ada derives power from an MXM 3.1 Type-B interface, which supports up to 200W.
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Zotac also offers a separate MXM to PCIe x16 adapter, which sells for $181, to transform the MXM RTX 5000 Ada into a desktop graphics card. The adapter utilizes the 16-pin (12VHPWR) power connector, which is common on Nvidia’s latest higher-end graphics cards, such as the GeForce RTX 5090. The adapter also provides four DisplayPort outputs for connecting displays.