While we all know NIVDIA’s flagship gaming GPU in the form of GeForce RTX 5090 is immensely powerful for gaming, there is an even more powerful card from Team Green’s roster, one that isn’t designed for gaming. In a video, Overclocker and creator “der8auer” has managed to obtain NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 6000 Workstation Edition GPU that is measurably faster than the fastest GeForce card available today.
RTX PRO 6000 Tested In Gaming
While the RTX PRO 6000 is designed as a workstation card, much of the card’s design share similarities to its gaming-focused counterpart. Chief among them is the cooling system – the same double flow-through design first debuted in RTX 5090 has found its way to this card, which consumes the full 600 watts of power (25W more than the 575W RTX 5090) the 12V-2×6 connector can provide.
As a matter of fact, the RTX Pro card has a fully-functional GB202 die with full 24,064 CUDA cores available, whereas the RTX 5090 has a slightly cut-down GB202 silicon that packs 21,760 CUDA cores. Making a die as big as GB202 with zero defects is very difficult, which partly contributes to RTX Pro 6000’s massive price tag of $10,000 apiece. It also comes with 96GB of GDDR7 memory, though it doesn’t matter in this case as the RTX 5090’s 32GB VRAM is considered overkill for present-day gaming.
With more cores and slightly more power headroom, the RTX Pro 6000 managed to achieve 14% more performance Cyberpunk 2077, although this seems like the best-case scenario among the games tested. That said, it is possible there is more performance to be extracted as the workstation card runs on workstation-specific drivers, and you can’t find a Game Ready driver for such a card for obvious reasons.
Even if you have $10,000 to spare for Jensen Huang, stick to GeForce if you intend to game first and foremost – Game Ready drivers are designed for games to work best and avoid performance losses or even stability issues. Besides, spending several times more for 14% higher framerates surely doesn’t fit Huang’s principle of The More You Buy, The More You Save, does it?
Pokdepinion: Hypothetically, nothing stops NVIDIA from releasing “RTX 5090 Ti” or even “RTX TITAN Blackwell” with Game Ready drivers if it wishes to.
