Nvidia's most expensive Blackwell card gets massive price cut but it is not the RTX 5090

Nvidia’s most expensive Blackwell card gets massive price cut but it is not the RTX 5090

March 26, 2025

Online tech retailers worldwide have started offering Nvidia’s flagship professional graphics card, the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, for preorder for as little as USD 7,673, far below PC Connection’s USD 8,435, a not-so-insignificant discount of 9%.

B2B specialists Tech-America and Directdial (presumably sharing the same database) have posted listings for Nvidia’s most expensive video card ever launched.

The less powerful but more frugal RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Max Q Workstation Edition is also available for the same price. Both models are sold in retail packaging at a slight premium.

Fresh RTX Pro stocks available soon?

Nvidia debuted three versions of the Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 video card last week at its annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California.

The server version is unlikely to ever go on sale, as it will almost certainly only be sold as part of a server system.

The Max-Q iteration delivers 10% less performance with a reduction of 50% in the power consumption, making it ideal for systems where multiple cards will be deployed.

With up to 4000 AI TOPS performance, the plain vanilla RTX Pro 6000 BWE is the most powerful Nvidia GPU ever launched.

It has twice the memory size (and power consumption) of its former performance champion, the RTX 6000 and 3x that of RTX 5090, the best GPU on the consumer market.

Other than Nvidia, PNY, Leadtek and Elsa are the other graphics card manufacturers that will stock the RTX Pro series.

Nvidia RTX Pro shaping out to be a bargain?

At the time of writing, there’s a price difference of about USD1,100 between the current flagship and the former one, the RTX 6000 Ada Generation, but there’s more to it than just pricing.

I managed to track down another four RTX Pro cards, including the unannounced RTX Pro 2000 with 8GB of GDDR7 memory and a 115W TDP.

On paper, this is the only card that seems to have regressed compared to the previous generation as it has half the memory of its predecessor, the RTX 2000 Ada Generation.

For the other three (4000, 4500, 5000), I reserve my judgment, but on paper, it looks quite promising.

The RTX Pro 4000 has the same amount of memory as the one step up from the previous generation (RTX 4500 AG), has a 33% lower power consumption, and a much higher CUDA core count and memory bandwidth.

Given that the RTX 4500 AG costs $2,139 and the RTX Pro 4000 costs $1,407, there’s no obvious reason to choose the former over the latter.

Compared to the RTX 5000 AG, the RTX Pro 4500 has a much lower power consumption (20%) and a much higher memory bandwidth but also fewer CUDA cores.

However, these are 4th-generation ones, and I expect both cards to have broadly similar performance.

In terms of pricing, the RTX Pro 4500 costs USD 2,268, while the RTX 5000 AG retails for USD 3,742, 65% more expensive, making it very hard to justify buying the latter.

There’s a similar pattern between the RTX Pro 5000 and the RTX 6000 AG when it comes to CUDA cores, memory bandwidth, and amount.

However, their TDP (300W) is the same, while the RTX 6000 AG is about 62% more expensive than the RTX Pro 5000.

Curiously, Nvidia hasn’t disclosed the performance metrics (Floating-point performance single precision and FP4 AI TOPS with sparsity) for these four cards for obscure reasons.

That prevents us from making head-to-head comparisons, which may leave stocks in the channel unsold and cause retailers a lot of headaches.

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A comparison of Ada Generation and Blackwell Professional GPUs
Bulk/OEM package where available	Header Cell – Column 1	Mfr num	Price	NVIDIA CUDA Processing Cores	NVIDIA RT Cores	Tensor Cores	CUDA cores/TOPS	GPU Memory (GB)	Peak Memory Bandwidth (GB/s)	Floating-Point Performance Single Precision (TFLOPS, Peak)	AI TOPS	Maximum Power Consumption (W)
RTX PRO 6000	Desktop	900-5G144-2200-000	$7,673	24064	188	752	6	96	1792	125	4000	600
RTX PRO 6000	Data Center	Row 1 – Cell 2	Row 1 – Cell 3	24064	188	752	7	96	1600	111	3700	600
RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q	Desktop	900-5G153-2200-000	$7,673	24064	188	752	7	96	1792	110	3511	300
RTX PRO 5000	Laptop	Row 3 – Cell 2	Row 3 – Cell 3	10496	82	328	6	24	896	49.8	1824	175
L40S	Data Center	NVL40STCGPU-KIT	$8,352	18176	142	568	12	48	864	91.60	1466	350
RTX 6000 Ada Generation	Desktop	9005G133225000001	$6,532	18176	142	568	12	48	960	91.10	1457	300
RTX PRO 4000	Laptop	Row 6 – Cell 2	Row 6 – Cell 3	7680	60	240	6	16	896	38.7	1334	175
RTX 5000 Ada Generation	Desktop	9005G132224000001	$3,742	12800	100	400	12	32	576	65.30	1044	250
RTX PRO 3000	Laptop	Row 8 – Cell 2	Row 8 – Cell 3	5888	46	184	6	12	672	29.1	992	140
RTX PRO 2000	Laptop	Row 9 – Cell 2	Row 9 – Cell 3	3328	26	104	4	8	384	17.7	798	115
L40	Data Center	Row 10 – Cell 2	$6,099	18176	142	568	25	48	864	90.50	724	300
RTX 5000 Ada Generation	Laptop	Row 11 – Cell 2	Row 11 – Cell 3	9728	76	304	14	16	576	42.50	682	175
RTX 4500 Ada Generation	Desktop	9005G132226000001	$2,139	7680	60	240	12	24	432	39.90	634	210
RTX PRO 1000	Laptop	Row 13 – Cell 2	Row 13 – Cell 3	2560	20	80	4	8	384	13.6	572	115
RTX 4000 Ada Generation	Laptop	Row 14 – Cell 2	Row 14 – Cell 3	7424	58	232	14	12	432	33.60	538	175
RTX 4000 Ada Generation	Desktop	9005G190227000001	$1,189	6144	48	192	14	20	360	26.70	428	130
RTX 3500 Ada Generation	Laptop	Row 16 – Cell 2	Row 16 – Cell 3	5120	40	180	14	12	432	23.00	369	140
RTX 3000 Ada Generation	Laptop	Row 17 – Cell 2	Row 17 – Cell 3	4608	36	144	14	8	256	19.90	319	140
RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation	Desktop	9005G192227000001	$1,186	6144	48	192	20	20	280	19.20	307	70
RTX PRO 500	Laptop	Row 19 – Cell 2	Row 19 – Cell 3	1792	14	56	6	6	288	9.2	294	75
RTX 2000 Ada Generation	Laptop	Row 20 – Cell 2	Row 20 – Cell 3	3072	24	96	13	8	256	14.50	232	140
RTX 1000 Ada Generation	Laptop	Row 21 – Cell 2	Row 21 – Cell 3	2560	20	80	13	6	192	12.10	193	140
RTX 2000 Ada Generation	Desktop	VCNRTX2000ADA-B	$664	2816	22	88	15	16	224	12.00	192	70
RTX 500 Ada Generation	Laptop	Row 23 – Cell 2	Row 23 – Cell 3	2048	16	64	13	4	128	9.20	154	60
RTX PRO 5000	Desktop	900-5G153-2250-000	$4,039	14080	110	440	#DIV/0!	48	1344	Row 24 – Cell 10	Row 24 – Cell 11	300
RTX PRO 4500	Desktop	900-5G147-2250-000	$2,268	10496	82	328	#DIV/0!	32	784	Row 25 – Cell 10	Row 25 – Cell 11	200
RTX PRO 4000	Desktop	900-5G147-2270-000	$1,407	8960	70	280	#DIV/0!	24	672	Row 26 – Cell 10	Row 26 – Cell 11	140
RTX PRO 2000	Desktop	900-5G195-2250-000	$634	Row 27 – Cell 4	4th gen	5th gen	#DIV/0!	8	Row 27 – Cell 9	Row 27 – Cell 10	Row 27 – Cell 11	115

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Online tech retailers worldwide have started offering Nvidia’s flagship professional graphics card, the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, for preorder for as little as USD 7,673, far below PC Connection’s USD 8,435, a not-so-insignificant discount of 9%. B2B specialists Tech-America and Directdial (presumably sharing the same database) have posted…