Nvidia launches its fastest GPU ever: Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition is an enhanced version of the RTX 5090 with more of everything
Nvidia has unveiled a dozen new GPUs at its GTC 2025 event, the company’s biggest launch in two years.
Based on the Blackwell architecture, the newcomers use the RTX Pro moniker to differentiate themselves from the previous generations (Ada Lovelace, Ampere, and Turing) and, from their consumer breathens.
The flagship models are three RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU variants with 96GB ECC GDDR7 memory and up to 4000 AI TOPS performance – twice the amount of memory in its former performance champion, the RTX 6000 and a staggering 4x the RTX 5090, the best GPU on the consumer market has to offer.
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Alongside the standard Workstation Edition, Nvidia also introduced the Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition and the Server Edition.
The latter is the successor to the L40 Data Center GPU series, bringing some much-needed consistency to the GPU nomenclature.
As for the Max-Q Workstation Edition, it remains a bit of a mystery. Nvidia launched Max-Q technology back in 2017 and this is usually associated with laptop GPUs trying to achieve maximum efficiency.
However, workstation PCs rarely aim for optimal energy consumption except perhaps in power-constrained environments like small form factor mini PCs.
Three other professional desktop GPUs were also introduced: the Pro 5000, Pro 4500 and Pro 4000, which will be available starting May 2025.
Given past product launch cycles, I expect more models focusing on the entry-level and mainstream parts of the market, to be launched by the end of 2025.
Six new laptop GPUs were also launched, all of them carrying the RTX Pro naming convention and, confusingly enough, some having the same name as their desktop counterparts.
The RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell is the new laptop flagship GPU with 24GB ECC GDDR7 memory; other models include the 4000, 3000, 2000, 1000, and 500 series and should directly replace their respective “Ada Generation” part.
All these parts will be available from OEM partners in mobile workstations starting in June 2025.
We’ll strive to update this article when further details of the cards (including pricing) are published.
Nvidia’s GTC Keynote also saw the formal launch of DGX Spark, formerly known as Project Digits, the DGX station and Blackwell Ultra (or GB300), Nvidia’s most powerful GPU ever.
| Header Cell – Column 0 | Header Cell – Column 1 | NVIDIA CUDA Processing Cores | NVIDIA RT Cores | Tensor Cores | GPU Memory (GB) | Peak Memory Bandwidth (GB/s) | Floating-Point Performance Single Precision (TFLOPS, Peak) | AI TOPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
L40S | Data Center | 18176 | 142 (3rd Gen) | 568 (4th Gen) | 48 | 864 | 91.60 | 1466.00 |
L40 | Data Center | 18176 | 142 (3rd Gen) | 568 (4th Gen) | 48 | 864 | 90.50 | 724.00 |
RTX PRO 6000 | Data Center | Row 2 – Cell 2 | Row 2 – Cell 3 | Row 2 – Cell 4 | 96 | Row 2 – Cell 6 | Row 2 – Cell 7 | 4000 |
RTX 6000 Ada Generation | Desktop | 18176 | 142 (3rd Gen) | 568 (4th Gen) | 48 | 960 | 91.10 | 1457.00 |
RTX 5000 Ada Generation | Desktop | 12800 | 100 (3rd Gen) | 400 (4th Gen) | 32 | 576 | 65.30 | 1044.40 |
RTX 4500 Ada Generation | Desktop | 7680 | 60 (3rd Gen) | 240 (4th Gen) | 24 | 432 | 39.90 | 634.00 |
RTX 4000 Ada Generation | Desktop | 6144 | 48 (3rd Gen) | 192 (4th Gen) | 20 | 360 | 26.70 | 427.50 |
RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation | Desktop | 6144 | 48 (3rd Gen) | 192 (4th Gen) | 20 | 280 | 19.20 | 306.80 |
RTX 2000 Ada Generation | Desktop | 2816 | 22 (3rd Gen) | 88 (4th Gen) | 16 | 224 | 12.00 | 191.90 |
RTX PRO 5000 | Desktop | Row 9 – Cell 2 | Row 9 – Cell 3 | Row 9 – Cell 4 | Row 9 – Cell 5 | Row 9 – Cell 6 | Row 9 – Cell 7 | Row 9 – Cell 8 |
RTX PRO 4500 | Desktop | Row 10 – Cell 2 | Row 10 – Cell 3 | Row 10 – Cell 4 | Row 10 – Cell 5 | Row 10 – Cell 6 | Row 10 – Cell 7 | Row 10 – Cell 8 |
RTX PRO 4000 | Desktop | Row 11 – Cell 2 | Row 11 – Cell 3 | Row 11 – Cell 4 | Row 11 – Cell 5 | Row 11 – Cell 6 | Row 11 – Cell 7 | Row 11 – Cell 8 |
RTX PRO 6000 | Desktop | Row 12 – Cell 2 | Row 12 – Cell 3 | Row 12 – Cell 4 | 96 | Row 12 – Cell 6 | Row 12 – Cell 7 | Row 12 – Cell 8 |
RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q | Desktop | Row 13 – Cell 2 | Row 13 – Cell 3 | Row 13 – Cell 4 | Row 13 – Cell 5 | Row 13 – Cell 6 | Row 13 – Cell 7 | Row 13 – Cell 8 |
RTX 5000 Ada Generation | Laptop | 9728 | 76 (3rd Gen) | 304 (4th Gen) | 16 | 576 | 42.50 | 681.80 |
RTX 4000 Ada Generation | Laptop | 7424 | 58 (3rd Gen) | 232 (4th Gen) | 12 | 432 | 33.60 | 538.00 |
RTX 3500 Ada Generation | Laptop | 5120 | 40 (3rd Gen) | 180 (4th Gen) | 12 | 432 | 23.00 | 368.60 |
RTX 3000 Ada Generation | Laptop | 4608 | 36 (3rd Gen) | 144 (4th Gen) | 8 | 256 | 19.90 | 318.60 |
RTX 2000 Ada Generation | Laptop | 3072 | 24 (3rd Gen) | 96 (4th Gen) | 8 | 256 | 14.50 | 231.60 |
RTX 1000 Ada Generation | Laptop | 2560 | 20 (3rd Gen) | 80 (4th Gen) | 6 | 192 | 12.10 | 193.00 |
RTX 500 Ada Generation | Laptop | 2048 | 16 (3rd Gen) | 64 (4th Gen) | 4 | 128 | 9.20 | 154.30 |
RTX PRO 5000 | Laptop | Row 21 – Cell 2 | Row 21 – Cell 3 | Row 21 – Cell 4 | 24 | Row 21 – Cell 6 | Row 21 – Cell 7 | Row 21 – Cell 8 |
RTX PRO 4000 | Laptop | Row 22 – Cell 2 | Row 22 – Cell 3 | Row 22 – Cell 4 | Row 22 – Cell 5 | Row 22 – Cell 6 | Row 22 – Cell 7 | Row 22 – Cell 8 |
RTX PRO 3000 | Laptop | Row 23 – Cell 2 | Row 23 – Cell 3 | Row 23 – Cell 4 | Row 23 – Cell 5 | Row 23 – Cell 6 | Row 23 – Cell 7 | Row 23 – Cell 8 |
RTX PRO 2000 | Laptop | Row 24 – Cell 2 | Row 24 – Cell 3 | Row 24 – Cell 4 | Row 24 – Cell 5 | Row 24 – Cell 6 | Row 24 – Cell 7 | Row 24 – Cell 8 |
RTX PRO 1000 | Laptop | Row 25 – Cell 2 | Row 25 – Cell 3 | Row 25 – Cell 4 | Row 25 – Cell 5 | Row 25 – Cell 6 | Row 25 – Cell 7 | Row 25 – Cell 8 |
RTX PRO 500 | Laptop | Row 26 – Cell 2 | Row 26 – Cell 3 | Row 26 – Cell 4 | Row 26 – Cell 5 | Row 26 – Cell 6 | Row 26 – Cell 7 | Row 26 – Cell 8 |
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