At GTC 2025, Nvidia announced its RTX Pro 6000 Series for data centres and desktops, alongside other Blackwell GPU products for the laptop market. These cards promise to deliver higher performance than prior generation RTX 6000 Ada offerings but also bring uplifts to memory capacity and speed too, featuring a 96GB GDDR7 buffer.
A single configuration will be available to data centres, namely RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition. However, on desktop the card will be available in two flavours: RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition and RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition.
All three sport a GB202 chip packing 24,064 CUDA cores and 96GB of ECC GDDR7 memory linked through a 512-bit bus. The main difference between them is their cooler designs and power budget. The Max-Q model runs at 300W while the other two have 600W at their disposal.
Compared to the fastest gaming Blackwell GPU – i.e. RTX 5090, the RTX Pro 6000 offers 10% more CUDA cores and triple the VRAM yet only asks for 4% more power. Power that remains fed via a single 12V-2×6 connector. On paper, the RTX Pro 6000 should be up to 19% faster in AI, FP32, and RT. However, ray tracing benchmarks conducted using GameTestBench show a mere 5% uplift.
Though not apples to apples, compared to last-gen RTX 6000 Ada, the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell boasts 32% more CUDA cores – up from 18,176 – and double the memory capacity – up from 48GB of ECC GDDR6. Unsurprisingly, the power requirements have also doubled to feed the larger GPU die and VRAM pool.
There are less-powerful and more-affordable RTX Pro cards coming to market too. RTX Pro 5000, 4500, and 4000 target lower performance tiers, offering 14,080, 10,496, and 8,960 CUDA cores respectively. Same for VRAM capacity, the Pro 5000 packs 48GB of ECC GDDR7, followed by the Pro 4500 with 32GB of ECC GDDR7, then the Pro 4000 with 24GB of ECC GDDR7. Note that the Pro 4500 and 4000 are the only models based on the GB203 chip. The power budget on these is 200W and 140W respectively, with the Pro 5000 asking for 300W.
Nvidia partners such as PNY and BOXX have already announced their RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell cards featuring four DisplayPort outputs and PCIe Gen 5 connectivity. Depending on the model, coolers will vary from the newer dual flow-through designs to basic blower or fanless server solutions that rely on the rack’s built-in fans.
