First hinted in a driver, Nvidia has finally launched the RTX 5880 Ada, a graphics card explicitly tailored for the Chinese market and conforms to the latest U.S. export rules. As you can quickly tell by its model name, the Ada Lovelace graphics card slots between the RTX 6000 Ada and RTX 5000 Ada.
Nvidia utilizes the AD102 silicon for the RTX 6000 Ada and RTX 5000 Ada; therefore, the RTX 5880 Ada is, in all likelihood, using a variant of the same silicon due to the number of CUDA cores. AD102, which measures 609 mm², houses 18,432 CUDA cores, giving Nvidia plenty of freedom to carve out a die for the RTX 5880 Ada. The U.S. export restrictions dictate that manufacturers cannot ship graphics cards with a Total Processing Power (TPP) rating higher than 4,800 TPP to China. The RTX 6000 Ada, which has a 5,828 TPP, is a no-go, leaving a space that the RTX 5880 Ada will fill.
