Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada 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 Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada (62/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Efficiency 44.0 Poor 49.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 61.0 Average 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Fire Strike 48036 75325
Port Royal 12733 39888
Solar Bay 85186 255911
Time Spy 19814 42614
Wild Life Extreme 40308 110070
Night Raid 214655

API

API specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
CUDA 8.9 12
DLSS DLSS 3 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 Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
1080p High 180 284
1080p Ultra 151 242
1440p Ultra 118 196
4K Ultra 69 118
CoD: Modern Warfare III 17015912280 305296252176
Counter-Strike 2 27421315183 36226320393
Cyberpunk 2077 1481328643 25322116071
Far Cry 6 15813912678 221198185112
Forza Horizon 5 18812511589 309235215175
Ghost of Tsushima 116978449 206170158107
Hogwarts Legacy 1321088545 23518915089
Margin of Error High High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 23721916991 319298224121
The Witcher 3 20117012866 343311216116

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 47003 90853
Face Detection (HP) 42820 103224
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 11193 16903
Image Segmentation (HP) 20124 48518
Image Super Resolution (Q) 34904 54618
Machine Translation (HP) 4268 7291
Object Detection (SP) 13068 26498
Pose Estimation (Q) 149991 338587
Style Transfer (SP) 300643 635289
Text Classification (SP) 3789 3894

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 309.9 img/sec 366.1 img/sec
Edge Detection 9.94 Gpixels/sec 35.2 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 198.4 img/sec 248 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.02 Gpixels/sec 2.47 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 12.4 Gpixels/sec 45 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 7.42 Gpixels/sec 23.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 31078.1 FPS 42574.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 1060 Gpixels/sec 3040 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Architecture Ada Lovelace Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD103 GB202-300-A1
Launch price (MSRP) $2250 $8559
Purpose Professional Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 14700Kor above -AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3Dor above
Released August 23, 2023 March 18, 2026
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Base Clock 2070 MHz 1590 MHz
Boost Clock 2580 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 60 188
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 48MB shared 128MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 60 188
Render Output Units (ROPs) 80 190
Shading Units 7680 24064
Tensor Cores 240 752
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 240 752

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Bus 192-bit 512-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 96 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
DirectX 11 259 FPS 339 FPS
DirectX 12 90 FPS 154 FPS
G2D Mark 1161 1391
GPU Compute 16769 Ops/s 26607 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Die Size 379 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 210 W 600 W
Transistor Count 45 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 118.73 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Pixel Fill Rate 206 GPixel/s 497 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 619 GTexel/s 1968 GTexel/s

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