GeForce RTX 2080 vs Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (98/100)

Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell leads overall with a score of 98/100 compared to GeForce RTX 2080 (37/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 2080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Efficiency 27.0 Poor 49.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 35.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Fire Strike 27672 75325
Night Raid 100912 214655
Port Royal 6460 39888
Solar Bay 49851 255911
Time Spy 11077 42614
Wild Life Extreme 22307 110070

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
CUDA 7.5 12
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
1080p High 118 284
1080p Ultra 97 242
1440p Ultra 72 196
4K Ultra 40 118
CoD: Modern Warfare III 97916742 305296252176
Counter-Strike 2 21316211662 36226320393
Cyberpunk 2077 86784721 25322116071
Far Cry 6 112977643 221198185112
Forza Horizon 5 127807148 309235215175
Ghost of Tsushima 78634627 206170158107
Hogwarts Legacy 80655225 23518915089
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1291228945 319298224121
The Witcher 3 1441178747 343311216116

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 28373 90853
Face Detection (HP) 34245 103224
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 7122 16903
Image Segmentation (HP) 17897 48518
Image Super Resolution (Q) 16120 54618
Machine Translation (HP) 4328 7291
Object Detection (SP) 8748 26498
Pose Estimation (Q) 69601 338587
Style Transfer (SP) 154510 635289
Text Classification (SP) 2181 3894

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 191.8 img/sec 366.1 img/sec
Edge Detection 6.2 Gpixels/sec 35.2 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 115.9 img/sec 248 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.3 Gpixels/sec 2.47 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.56 Gpixels/sec 45 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 4.74 Gpixels/sec 23.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 15858.8 FPS 42574.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 499.7 Gpixels/sec 3040 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Architecture Turing Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename TU104 GB202-300-A1
Launch price (MSRP) $699 $8559
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -AMD Ryzen 9 9900Xor above -AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3Dor above
Released September 20, 2018 March 18, 2026
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5080
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Base Clock 1515 MHz 1590 MHz
Boost Clock 1710 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 46 188
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 128MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 46 188
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 190
Shading Units 2944 24064
Tensor Cores 368 752
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 184 752

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Bus 256-bit 512-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 96 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
DirectX 11 160 FPS 339 FPS
DirectX 12 71 FPS 154 FPS
G2D Mark 897 1391
GPU Compute 7719 Ops/s 26607 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Die Size 545 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 215 W 600 W
Transistor Count 13 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 23.85 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2080 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Pixel Fill Rate 109 GPixel/s 497 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 315 GTexel/s 1968 GTexel/s

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