NVIDIA has showcased a new batch of Blackwell GPUs aimed at the real professionals. These models aren’t something you’ll slap into your gaming rig and play Fortnite with. They are made for large-scale businesses, research labs, corporations, and creative houses. Of course, they come with a hefty price tag and some ridiculous specs.
The NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 is one of these cards. It comes with 96GB of GDDR7 RAM and uses 600W of power to run. This isn’t a 600W PSU requirement; this is the actual power rating for the card. The GPU looks like the RTX 5090 and includes the dual-flow cooling system.
In terms of specs, the GPU includes 24,064 CUDA cores, a 512-bit memory bus, and 1792 GB/s of memory bandwidth. It comes with PCI-E Gen 5 support and DisplayPort 2.1.
But the RTX Pro 6000 isn’t the only card in the series. NVIDIA is producing three of these Pro cards which are pegged as the brand’s “Quadro” lineup. Although they aren’t called that anymore, essentially, this is a similar range of cards you would find if you were shopping for a Quadro replacement today.
The NVIDIA RTX Pro desktop lineup also includes the 5000, 4500, and 4000 models. The notebook NVIDIA RTX Pro lineup then ranges across 3000, 2000, 1000, and 500 models. These notebook GPUs come with up to 24GB of VRAM and the Blackwell Max-Q technology.
- Data center GPU: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition
- Desktop GPUs: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition, NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell, NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell and NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell
- Laptop GPUs: NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell, NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell, NVIDIA RTX PRO 3000 Blackwell, NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell, NVIDIA RTX PRO 1000 Blackwell and NVIDIA RTX PRO 500 Blackwell
NVIDIA hasn’t priced any of these new chips yet. However, the company is working with the usual brands to bring the desktop and notebook variants to market.
- NVIDIA Streaming Multiprocessor: Offers up to 1.5x faster throughput and new neural shaders that integrate AI inside of programmable shaders to drive the next decade of AI-augmented graphics innovations.
- Fourth-Generation RT Cores: Delivers up to 2x the performance of the previous generation to create photoreal, physically accurate scenes and complex 3D designs with optimizations for NVIDIA RTX™ Mega Geometry.
- Fifth-Generation Tensor Cores: Delivers up to 4,000 AI trillion operations per second and adds support for FP4 precision and NVIDIA DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation, enabling a new era of AI-powered graphics and the ability to run and prototype larger AI models faster.
- Larger, Faster GDDR7 Memory: Boosts bandwidth and capacity — up to 96GB for workstations and servers and up to 24GB on laptops. This enables applications to run faster and work with larger, more complex datasets for everything from tackling massive 3D and AI projects to exploring large-scale virtual reality environments.
- Ninth-Generation NVIDIA NVENC: Accelerates video encoding speed and improves quality for professional video applications with added support for 4:2:2 encoding.
- Sixth-Generation NVIDIA NVDEC: Provides up to double the H.264 decoding throughput and offers support for 4:2:2 H.264 and HEVC decode. Professionals can benefit from high-quality video playback, accelerate video data ingestion and use advanced AI-powered video editing features.
- Fifth-Generation PCIe: Support for fifth-generation PCI Express provides double the bandwidth over the previous generation, improving data transfer speeds from CPU memory and unlocking faster performance for data-intensive tasks.
- DisplayPort 2.1: Drives high-resolution displays at up to 4K at 480Hz and 8K at 165Hz. Increased bandwidth enables seamless multi-monitor setups, while high dynamic range and higher color depth support deliver more precise color accuracy for tasks like video editing, 3D design and live broadcasting.
- Multi-Instance GPU (MIG): The RTX PRO 6000 data center and desktop GPUs and 5000 series desktop GPUs feature MIG technology, enabling secure partitioning of a single GPU into up to four instances (6000 series) or two instances (5000 series). Fault isolation is designed to prevent workload interference for secure, efficient resource allocation for diverse workloads, maximizing performance and flexibility.
Source: NVIDIA
