Advantech SKY-QUAD-A1000-8 NVIDIA RTX A1000 8GB Single-Slot Low-Profile Workstation GPU with 50W Slot Power

Compact computers in kiosks, cabinets and operator desks often have room for one low-profile card and no spare power cable. The SKY-QUAD-A1000-8 is the NVIDIA RTX A1000, an entry-level workstation GPU supplied by Advantech in a single-slot, low-profile format that runs at 50 W. It suits small GPU computers that drive several displays and still need some compute for vision, video and light AI inference.

The NVIDIA Ampere GPU has 2,304 CUDA cores, 72 third-generation Tensor Cores and 18 second-generation RT Cores, for 6.7 TFLOPS of single-precision performance. Memory is 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit interface at 192 GB/s, double the memory of its smaller sibling. CUDA, DirectCompute and OpenCL are available for compute, with DirectX 12, Shader Model 6.6, OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.3 for graphics, and AV1 decode support helps with current video streams.

The SKY-QUAD-A1000-8 connects over PCI Express 4.0 x8 and has no auxiliary power connector, so its 50 W maximum comes through the slot. Cooling is active, and the low-profile bracket is supplied in the accessory bag. Four Mini DisplayPort 1.4a outputs with a latching mechanism drive four 4096 x 2160 displays at 120 Hz, four at 5120 x 2880 at 60 Hz or two at 7680 x 4320 at 30 Hz.

We supply the SKY-QUAD-A1000-8 tested, and we fit, configure and burn-in test it in the GPU computers and servers we build, with power, cooling and drivers checked as part of each build. The SKY-QUAD-A400-4 offers 4 GB for display-led builds, the SKY-QUAD-A2000E12B moves to the RTX A2000 with 12 GB at 70 W, and the SKY-QUAD-2000EA-16 brings Ada Lovelace and 16 GB of ECC memory to a 50 W card.