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Nvidia is announcing its RTX Pro Blackwell series of GPUs today, designed to meet the needs of professional designers, developers, data scientists, and creatives. The lineup includes a top of the line RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU for workstations, as well as other RTX Pro Blackwell desktop and laptop variants and a datacenter version of the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell.
The RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell for workstations will ship with 96GB of GDDR7 memory and needs 600 watts of power, slightly more than the 575 watts of the RTX 5090. It also includes PCIe Gen 5 support, DisplayPort 2.1, and the latest Blackwell generation of RT cores and Tensor cores.
This GPU is designed for workstation use, aimed primarily at professionals that work on game development, AI workloads, or any professional tasks that need a lot of VRAM and a fast GPU. The RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell will also be available in a Max-Q variant and a server edition for datacenters.
Nvidia is using its new RTX Pro branding to replace the RTX numbering scheme it has used previously, as well as Quadro in the past. Nvidia is also launching the RTX Pro 5000 and RTX Pro 4000 Blackwell in desktop and laptop form factors, alongside the RTX Pro 4500 Blackwell for desktops.
Laptop versions of the RTX Pro Blackwell will also include the 3000, 2000, 1000, and 500 models. The laptop variants come with up to 24GB of VRAM, and these GPUs also support Nvidia’s latest Blackwell Max-Q technologies that the company claims will “intelligently and continually optimize laptop performance and power efficiency with AI.”
These laptop GPUs will also challenge AMD’s Strix Halo chips that have 128GB of unified memory that is shared among the CPU, GPU, and AI engines. Framework has built a tiny desktop with AMD’s latest chips, so it will be interesting to see what kind of workstations and laptops will ship with Nvidia’s RTX Pro Blackwell GPUs.
Nvidia hasn’t put a price on the RTX Pro 6000 workstation variant just yet, but this GPU will be available from distribution partners like PNY and TD Synnex in April, with availability from manufacturers like Dell, HP, and Lenovo starting in May.
The server variant will be available from Cisco, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Supermicro “soon.” Cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and CoreWeave will also have RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell servers later this year.
The rest of the RTX Pro Blackwell lineup for workstations will be available in the summer from Boxx, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, and the RTX Pro Blackwell laptop variants will ship in Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Razer devices later this year.
