Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 quietly beats the RTX 5090 in early benchmarks, at triple the cost

In context: Nvidia announced the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell workstation GPU, then quietly released it earlier this month. Although it launched without an official review program, a few hardware enthusiasts tested the card and shared benchmarks highlighting its performance. Redditor Privaterbok tested the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell using several benchmarking tools, including 3DMark Time Spy, Time Spy Extreme, Steel Nomad, Port Royal, and Geekbench 6. The card scored 51,776 in Time Spy and 28,009 in Time Spy Extreme at stock settings. With a moderate 350Hz GPU overclock, those scores increased to 54,300 and 30,019, respectively. Compared to the top RTX 5090 results in 3DMark's database, the stock RTX Pro 6000 scores average 10 to 15 percent higher than a stock 5090 but are five to 10 percent lower than an overclocked one. Even overclocked, the 6000 remained about five percent slower than an overclocked 5090 in Time Spy. In most other tests, the two cards delivered similar performance, with the ... Read full article.