Nvidia RTX 6000 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 6000 Ada (84/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 49.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 81.0 Very Good 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Fire Strike 62803 75325
Night Raid 148225 214655
Port Royal 19497 39888
Solar Bay 145429 255911
Time Spy 26529 42614
Wild Life Extreme 53640 110070

API

API specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 6000 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 6000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
1080p High 220 284
1080p Ultra 186 242
1440p Ultra 149 196
4K Ultra 88 118
CoD: Modern Warfare III 220214174116 305296252176
Counter-Strike 2 31321917383 36226320393
Cyberpunk 2077 19617212358 25322116071
Far Cry 6 17516014891 221198185112
Forza Horizon 5 231168153125 309235215175
Ghost of Tsushima 14812411068 206170158107
Hogwarts Legacy 16413710860 23518915089
Margin of Error High High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 287267201109 319298224121
The Witcher 3 24621215280 343311216116

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 68370 90853
Face Detection (HP) 69004 103224
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 13367 16903
Image Segmentation (HP) 32477 48518
Image Super Resolution (Q) 42056 54618
Machine Translation (HP) 5545 7291
Object Detection (SP) 18668 26498
Pose Estimation (Q) 230965 338587
Style Transfer (SP) 520389 635289
Text Classification (SP) 3491 3894

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 618.3 img/sec 366.1 img/sec
Edge Detection 22.1 Gpixels/sec 35.2 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 399.9 img/sec 248 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.33 Gpixels/sec 2.47 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 26.3 Gpixels/sec 45 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 15.1 Gpixels/sec 23.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 53494.5 FPS 42574.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 2210 Gpixels/sec 3040 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 6000 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) $6800 $8559
Purpose Professional Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3Dor above
Released December 3, 2022 March 18, 2026
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Base Clock 915 MHz 1590 MHz
Boost Clock 2505 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 142 188
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 128MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 142 188
Render Output Units (ROPs) 192 190
Shading Units 18176 24064
Tensor Cores 568 752
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 568 752

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Bus 384-bit 512-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 20000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2500 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 48 GB 96 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
DirectX 11 284 FPS 339 FPS
DirectX 12 102 FPS 154 FPS
G2D Mark 1008 1391
GPU Compute 22495 Ops/s 26607 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 6000 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 300 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 6000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Pixel Fill Rate 481 GPixel/s 497 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1423 GTexel/s 1968 GTexel/s

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