Nvidia RTX 5000 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 5000 Ada (73/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Efficiency 44.0 Poor 49.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 72.0 Good 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Fire Strike 49922 75325
Night Raid 139369 214655
Port Royal 17986 39888
Solar Bay 128428 255911
Time Spy 18364 42614
Wild Life Extreme 52866 110070

API

API specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 5000 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 5000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
1080p High 194 284
1080p Ultra 163 242
1440p Ultra 129 196
4K Ultra 76 118
CoD: Modern Warfare III 18217613791 305296252176
Counter-Strike 2 29221115886 36226320393
Cyberpunk 2077 1601439948 25322116071
Far Cry 6 16515313281 221198185112
Forza Horizon 5 20114113298 309235215175
Ghost of Tsushima 1291069359 206170158107
Hogwarts Legacy 1391149251 23518915089
Margin of Error High High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 265241188101 319298224121
The Witcher 3 21218413373 343311216116

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 50352 90853
Face Detection (HP) 43098 103224
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 9943 16903
Image Segmentation (HP) 19696 48518
Image Super Resolution (Q) 32252 54618
Machine Translation (HP) 4064 7291
Object Detection (SP) 12467 26498
Pose Estimation (Q) 138689 338587
Style Transfer (SP) 265482 635289
Text Classification (SP) 2893 3894

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 286.6 img/sec 366.1 img/sec
Edge Detection 13.7 Gpixels/sec 35.2 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 220.4 img/sec 248 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.2 Gpixels/sec 2.47 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 18.9 Gpixels/sec 45 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 9.93 Gpixels/sec 23.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 41235.6 FPS 42574.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 1580 Gpixels/sec 3040 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Architecture Ada Lovelace Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD102 GB202-300-A1
Launch price (MSRP) $4000 $8559
Purpose Professional Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3Dor above
Released August 9, 2023 March 18, 2026
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Base Clock 1155 MHz 1590 MHz
Boost Clock 2550 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 100 188
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 128MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 100 188
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 190
Shading Units 12800 24064
Tensor Cores 400 752
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 400 752

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Bus 256-bit 512-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB 96 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
DirectX 11 271 FPS 339 FPS
DirectX 12 110 FPS 154 FPS
G2D Mark 1009 1391
GPU Compute 20730 Ops/s 26607 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Die Size 609 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 250 W 600 W
Transistor Count 76 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 124.79 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Pixel Fill Rate 449 GPixel/s 497 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1020 GTexel/s 1968 GTexel/s

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