German YouTuber der8auer got his hands on the expensive Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 professional graphics card and put it through its paces. Though far from being worth the card’s £7,859 price tag, the gains are nothing to scoff at, showing the true potential of Nvidia’s Blackwell chip.
In order to build his next extravagant personal PC, der8auer went once more with the best hardware money can buy, centred around Nvidia’s latest addition: RTX Pro 6000 GPU. Why not an RTX 5090, you may ask? The reason is simple. This monster of a card features just shy of a full GB202 GPU with 24,064 active CUDA cores out of 24,576, i.e. 10.5% more than RTX 5090. It also boasts 752 TMUs, 192 ROPs, and 188 RT cores alongside a whopping 96GB of GDDR7 memory running on a 512-bit bus. Due to its larger GPU and memory pool, the card gets access to 600W fed via a single 12V-2×6 connector, which is slightly higher than RTX 5090’s 575W TDP.
Despite being made for professionals and thus lacking Game Ready drivers, the card was able to run all games perfectly fine using the Nvidia Studio drivers. Starting with 3DMark Time Spy Extreme GT1 tests, it pushed 176.5fps at 598W, putting it 13% ahead of RTX 5090 at the cost of an 11% increase in power draw. Moving to the ray-traced 3DMark Speedway test, RTX Pro 6000 pulled ahead by only 8%, though while consuming just 1% more than RTX 5090.
In games, RTX Pro 6000 was 14% faster than RTX 5090 while consuming 15% more power in Cyberpunk 2077, dropping to 11% uplift in Star Wars Outlaws and Remnant 2. Assassin’s Creed Mirage sits at the bottom with a 3% average fps boost while taking 6% more power. If not for the card’s price tag, these figures are quite nice considering the CUDA core increase. It also gives us a hint at the potential performance RTX 5090 could have had if Nvidia cut the die in a slightly different way.
Default performance aside, another interesting aspect about this card is its ability to go as low as 25% power target, unlike RTX 5090, which was locked to 70%. Though 25% is too aggressive to consider, 75% or 50% are more reasonable, lowering the power draw from 600W to 450W and 300W, respectively, making the card much more efficient without losing a lot of performance. For example, at 75% power target, RTX Pro 6000 matched a 551W RTX 5090, and at 50% it matched a 408W RTX 4090. This is an impressive showcase of Blackwell’s scaling potential.
Overall, if you can afford Nvidia RTX Pro 6000, or in some way put it as a professional expense (wink wink), you should be happy with its performance. And thanks to its massive 96GB memory pool, you can load all those 8K texture modes without thinking twice about it. With some luck, Nvidia may be cooking up an RTX 5090 Super rocking similar specs.
