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NVIDIA's $16,000 RTX PRO 6000 can beat the RTX 5090, but gamers aren't who it's built for.
By most measures, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 is a more powerful GPU than most will ever need. Priced at $1,999 when it was announced, it has 32GB of GDDR7 memory and can consume 575W when pushed.
Put another way, it's a powerful graphics card for people whose needs extend beyond gaming. NVIDIA's current US price for the RTX PRO 6000 is $16,000, nearly double the $8,565 it cost when it launchedup from $13,250.
NVIDIA has not disclosed why it raised the price, although the increase comes amid rising memory costs and broader GPU price hikes. What's clear, though, is that NVIDIA is targeting the RTX PRO 6000 at AI developers, engineers, 3D artists and other professionals who can make use of hardware that would be overkill in most gaming PCs.
The RTX PRO 6000 features a ridiculous 96GB of GDDR7 ECC memory, compared to 32GB of GDDR7 on the RTX 5090.
The ability to detect and correct memory errors is also more important when a GPU is doing some serious number crunching or a long professional job than when you're trying to eke out a few more frames in Cyberpunk 2077.
For over 20 years, NVIDIA sold its professional graphics hardware under the Quadro brand before transitioning to RTX professional branding.
Testing by Tech YouTuber der8auer found that the RTX PRO 6000 could outperform the RTX 5090 in some games even when using NVIDIA's workstation driver.