A recent NBD shipping log revealed a new NVIDIA Blackwell GPU by the name RTX PRO 6000 X, featuring an incredibly high 96 GB GDDR7 memory.
NVIDIA Prepares a 96 GB RTX PRO 6000 X GPU in the Blackwell PRO Lineup, Aimed at AI & Intensive Workloads
As NVIDIA has done with its flagship and other high-end Blackwell RTX GeForce 50 series cards, it's looking to expand the portfolio by adding additional RTX Blackwell GPUs. However, there won't be any more powerful GPUs than the RTX 5090, at least for the Gaming segment.
The professional segment is a whole different story. Usually, GPU manufacturers produce high-VRAM top-of-the-line graphics cards for professional usage, and we might soon see one with the Blackwell architecture. A few weeks back, one of the 96 GB editions of an RTX 6000 Blackwell GPU was spotted in an NBD shipping manifest, (and we also saw an RTX 4090 96 GB GPU earlier). Once again, we saw the same GPU but with its full name.
The leaker @harukaze5719 spotted the listing of the "RTX PRO 6000 X Blackwell" in NBD shipping logs, which are being sent to India for "testing purposes". There are at least two different shippers by the names N***ON and N**D that have sent the GPUS for testing. As revealed from the shipping logs, the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell card features a GB202-870 GPU and a VRAM capacity of 96 GB.
This particular model will also feature the GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit memory bus. The same-width memory bus is also used on the GeForce RTX 5090, but it only brings 32 GB of memory. Since it is a gaming card, 32 GB of VRAM is more than enough, but higher VRAM is highly beneficial for intensive workloads such as AI applications, and the 96 GB edition will take care of those.
The TBP is roughly around the same mark as the RTX 5090, but it's 25W higher. No big change but important for leveraging the full potential of the card. The RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs won't just include the 96 GB variant, but as spotted by the leaker, there is another card with half the VRAM capacity compared to the RTX PRO 6000 X.
This is with 48 GB GDDR7 memory on a 384-bit. This looks new as we currently don't know of any Blackwell GPU with a 384-bit memory interface in the RTX 50 series. While the RTX PRO 6000 X uses a GB202 variant, which is used for the RTX 5090 as well, the next slower GPU is GB203 in the RTX 5080, but it is capable of supporting a 256-bit memory bus. We are yet to know what exactly this GPU is, but it's also a part of the RTX PRO series dedicated to AI workloads.
NVIDIA Workstation Graphics Card Lineup:
| Graphics Card | RTX PRO 6000 | RTX 6000 Ada | RTX A6000 | Quadro RTX 8000 | Quadro RTX 6000 | Quadro GV100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU | Blackwell GPU | Ada Lovelace GPU | Ampere GPU | Turing GPU | Turing GPU | Volta GPU |
| GPU SKU | GB202 | AD102 | GA102 | TU102 | TU102 | GV100 |
| GPU Process | 5nm | 5nm | 8nm | 12nm | 12nm | 12nm |
| Die Size | 750mm2 | 608mm2 | 628mm² | 754mm² | 754mm² | 815mm² |
| GPU Cores | 24064 Cores | 18176 Cores | 10752 Cores | 4608 Cores | 4608 Cores | 5120 Cores |
| Tensor Cores | 752 Cores | 568 Cores | 656 Cores | 576 Cores | 576 Cores | 640 Cores |
| Boost Clock | TBD | 2.50 GHz | 1.80 GHz | 1.77 GHz | 1.77 GHz | 1.62 GHz |
| Single Precision | 125.0 TFLOPs | 91.1 TFLOPs | 38.7 TFLOPs | 16.31 TFLOPs | 16.31 TFLOPs | 16.66 TFLOPs |
| Ray Tracing Spec | TBD | 210.6 TFLOPs | 75.4 TFLOPs | 10 GigaRays/Sec | 10 GigaRays/Sec | N/A |
| VRAM | 96 GB GDDR7 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR6 | 32 GB HBM2 |
| NVLINK VRAM | N/A | N/A | 96 GB With NVLINK | 96 GB With NVLINK | 48 GB With NVLINK | N/A |
| Memory Bus | 512-bit | 384-bit | 384-bit | 384-bit | 384-bit | 4096-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 1.8 TB/s | 960 GB/s | 768 GB/s | 672 GB/s | 672 GB/s | 870 GB/s |
| TDP | 600W 300W (Max-Q) | 300W | 300W | ~225W | ~200W | 250W |
| Launch Price | TBD | $6800 US | $4650 US | $10000 US | $6300 US | $9000 US |
| Launch Date | 2025 | Q1 2023 | Q4 2020 | Q4 2018 | Q4 2018 | 2018 |
