For anyone who doesn’t follow the professional graphics market, NVIDIA retired its Quadro branding back in 2020. These days, NVIDIA includes the game of the GPU architecture—in this case, Blackwell—in the actual model name. New for this round (assuming the shipping manifest is accurate) is the addition of “Pro” in the model moniker.
This isn’t the first time that an RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell part has broken cover in a shipping manifest. According to the latest set of workstation card cameos, the higher-end RTX Pro X Blackwell part features a PG144 board and a GB202-870 GPU, with a 600W total board power (TBP) rating. That’s a 25W bump compared to the GeForce RTX 5090.
As for the non-X model, shipping logs show it uses a PG134 board. There’s no mention of the GPU (possibly GB203, which is used by the GeForce RTX 5080), though the manifest does indicate 48GB of GDDR7 memory on a 384-bit bus.
For comparison, NVIDIA’s RTX 6000 Ada card based on Ada Lovelace features 18,176 CUDA cores, 568 Tensor cores, and 142 RT cores.
This should be a nice bump for the professional scene, especially as AI workloads take center stage. In totality, the RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell series represents a newer architecture and, at the top end, more cores (CUDA, Tensor, and RT) and more VRAM that’s faster to boot.