The workstation RTX PRO 6000 GPU is now the fastest gaming graphics card, dethroning the RTX 5090 by a noticeable margin.
RTX PRO 6000 GPU Beats GeForce RTX 5090 by 10-15% Margin in Synthetic and Gaming Benchmarks at 4K
Apparently, the GeForce RTX 5090 isn't the fastest "Gaming" GPU on the planet. Even though NVIDIA claims it to be the fastest for gaming, the GPU can take a seat in the second position as NVIDIA's latest workstation GPU has outperformed the RTX 5090 fair and square. NVIDIA's RTX PRO 6000 is the latest workstation and the most powerful one yet in the RTX PRO series by the company.
Leveraging the same GB202 die based on the Blackwell architecture, the RTX PRO 6000 is technically an upgraded GeForce RTX 5090. The GPU boasts 24,064 CUDA cores, roughly 10% higher than the 21,760 cores present on the RTX 5090. This unlocks more RT cores, tensor cores, and ROPs on the card, allowing the RTX PRO 6000 to unlock GB202's full performance. This is what we saw in Der8auer's video, who compared both GPUs in synthetic and gaming benchmarks.
Not surprisingly, the RTX PRO 6000 did easily beat the latter in both instances, delivering over a 10% boost. For instance, the RTX PRO 6000 delivers 176.5 FPS compared to the 156.1 FPS of the RTX 5090 in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme GT1, showing a good 13% boost. Then comes the 3DMark Speedway, which favored the RTX PRO 6000 with around 8% higher performance, but the more surprising thing was the power consumption. In the Time Spy test, the power difference remained around 11%, but in the Speedway, it dropped to just 1%, making the RTX PRO 6000 noticeably better at power efficiency. Not to forget, the Power Draw graph showed that the RTX PRO 6000 was already 13% faster than the RTX 5090 in Extreme GT1 at the same power draw, but achieved just 0.4 FPS higher with an additional 60- 70W.
However, this behavior wasn't common but did occur a few times in other benchmarks. While in some, the RTX PRO 6000 consumed more power compared to the performance boost it offered, in other cases, it did so without consuming around just 5% more power than the RTX 5090. In Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K, the RTX PRO 6000 was 14% faster with 15% higher power consumption. Star Wars Outlaws showed a similar behavior, but in Remnant 2, the PRO 6000 consumed just 5% higher power than the RTX 5090 but delivered 11% higher average FPS and about 17% higher 1% Min FPS.
All in all, the RTX PRO 6000 is technically the new gaming king, but at a price tag 5X higher than the GeForce RTX 5090. The RTX PRO 6000 costs $10,000 and has 96 GB GDDR7 VRAM, which is why it is marketed towards professionals and, by no means, should be seen as a dedicated "gaming" GPU considering its hefty price tag.
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