Tech sage and overclocker Roman Hartung, popularly known as der8auer, recently reviewed Nvidia's workstation monster graphics card RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell over a series of gaming benchmarks. Earlier, we have seen glimpses of its capabilities, but der8auer really pushed the envelope to see how far this professional-grade GPU, which usually retails at around $10,000, could go in popular games, including Cyberpunk 2077, Star Wars Outlaws, Remnant 2, and Assassin's Creed Mirage. The results were rather amazing, especially when compared to high-end consumer cards like the RTX 5090 and RTX 4090, and der8auer suggested that it might legit become the new king for gaming on such a workstation beast.
In some detail in the video, der8auer expressed his excitement and even mentioned that he'd like to have the RTX Pro 6000 in his own gaming rig. One interesting point he noted was that this card was running on standard workstation drivers and not specific Game Ready drivers, which, nonetheless, did not seem to hinder its performance too much.
Starting with testing Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K max settings (except for ray tracing), der8auer meticulously logged average frames per second (FPS), power consumption, and 1% minimum FPS. The RTX Pro 6000 flexed its muscle against competitors: the RTX 5090 and RTX 4090.
Strap yourself in! In Cyberpunk 2077, the RTX Pro 6000, on average, managed to defeat the RTX 5090 by 14%. The 1% low FPS figures were 13% better, too; so yes, quite impressive. Performance did come at a cost, though, with the power draw 15% higher, but really, does that matter to someone spending $10,000 on a GPU?
This trend continued through the other titles. The RTX Pro 6000 is reported to have been 11% faster than the RTX 5090 in both Star Wars Outlaws and Remnant 2, with a much smaller lead of 3% in Assassin's Creed Mirage, which der8auer speculated might be a driver optimization-related matter. These results logically correlate with the indications of the previous 3DMark synthetic benchmarks.
For those interested in every little detail as well as a fun sight into Cyberpunk 2077 on extreme path tracing settings, der8auer's full video really gives a detailed run-through.
A quick reminder of what makes the RTX Pro 6000 so special. While it shares the same GB202 GPU architecture with the consumer-headed RTX 5090, the workstation model has a little more power to show for it with 24,064 shaders against 21,760 on the RTX 5090, but increasing TMUs, ROPs, Tensor cores, and RT cores equally. The most obvious difference, however, is in memory configuration. The RTX Pro 6000 has 96GB of GDDR7 memory onboard with a 512-bit memory bus, dwarfed in comparison with 32GB on the RTX 5090.
Now, in terms of experiencing gaming, these pros and cons very much give a mixed feeling for RTX Pro 6000. The cooling system is Founders Edition design; nonetheless, it has a peculiar rack mount to hold up 600-watt power consumption. So, der8auer said the fans come up loud, fast, and almost entirely diminish the effect of what he called "the worst coil whine I've ever heard, it's insanely loud."
And, uh, we should talk about the price. Der8auer mused that this manufacturer probably spent around $200 on the extra 64GB of VRAM alone. With the RTX 5090 hovering around $2,000 and the RTX Pro 6000 swinging in at $10,000, such a performance hike indeed requires a ridiculously steep premium. Here, frankly, more does not mean less.
