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Nvidia has introduced the Nvidia RTX Pro Blackwell series, marking a significant advancement in workstation and server graphics processing units.
The company asserts that these GPUs are set to transform the workflows of professionals in AI, technical fields, creative industries, engineering, and design by leveraging accelerated computing, AI inference, ray tracing, and neural rendering technology. This announcement was made during the keynote address by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the GTC 2025 event.
The RTX Pro Blackwell series is designed to meet diverse needs, ranging from agentic AI and simulation to extended reality, complex visual effects, and the development of physical AI for autonomous systems. This new lineup provides substantial computing power, memory capacity, and data throughput, catering to professionals whether they are working on a desktop, using mobile workstations, or relying on data center GPUs.
The new series features:
- Data center GPU: Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition
- Desktop GPUs: Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition, Nvidia RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell, Nvidia RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell, Nvidia RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell
- Laptop GPUs: Nvidia RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell, Nvidia RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell, Nvidia RTX PRO 3000 Blackwell, Nvidia RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell, Nvidia RTX PRO 1000 Blackwell, Nvidia RTX PRO 500 Blackwell
Bob Pette, Nvidia’s vice president of enterprise platforms, remarked that the new GPUs are essential for software developers, data scientists, artists, designers, and engineers who require high-performance AI and graphics capabilities to overcome significant industry challenges. The Nvidia Blackwell technology, according to Pette, promises to enhance productivity, performance, and speed, particularly in AI inference serving, data science, visualization, and content creation.
Nvidia Blackwell technology comes to workstations and data centers
The RTX Pro Blackwell GPUs unlock advancements in generative, agentic, and physical AI, offering superior performance, scalability, and efficiency.
Key features of the Nvidia RTX Pro Blackwell GPUs include:
- Nvidia Streaming Multiprocessor: Delivers up to 1.5 times faster throughput and incorporates new neural shaders, which facilitate AI integration in programmable shaders, aiming to drive the next generation of AI-enhanced graphics.
- Fourth-Generation RT Cores: Offers up to double the performance of the earlier generation, enhancing the creation of photorealistic and accurately modeled scenes and complex 3D designs with optimizations for Nvidia RTX Mega Geometry.
- Fifth-Generation Tensor Cores: Provides up to 4,000 AI trillion operations per second and supports FP4 precision and Nvidia DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation, fostering advancements in AI-powered graphics.
- Larger, Faster GDDR7 Memory: Increases bandwidth and capacity to 96GB for workstations and servers, and 24GB in laptops, enabling faster performance on complex datasets, heightening capabilities for 3D and AI projects, and facilitating exploration of extensive virtual environments.
- Ninth-Generation Nvidia NVENC: Enhances video encoding speed and quality for professional applications and adds 4:2:2 encoding support.
- Sixth-Generation Nvidia NVDEC: Doubles H.264 decoding throughput while supporting 4:2:2 H.264 and HEVC, benefiting professionals with improved video playback and faster data ingestion.
- Fifth-Generation PCIe: New PCI Express support offers doubled bandwidth, enhancing data transfer rates and accelerating performance on data-intensive tasks.
- DisplayPort 2.1: Supports high-resolution displays up to 4K at 480Hz and 8K at 165Hz, improving performance in multi-monitor setups and enhancing color accuracy in applications such as video editing and immersive design.
- Multi-Instance GPU (MIG): Allows for the secure partitioning of a single GPU into multiple instances, enhancing resource allocation and efficiency for varied workloads.
Moreover, Nvidia has introduced the latest Blackwell Max-Q technologies for laptops that intelligently optimize laptop performance and power sustainability with AI support.
With enhanced capabilities in neural rendering and AI-augmented applications, the Nvidia RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs are poised to revolutionize the creation of stunning visuals, digital replicas of real-world environments, and deliver immersive experiences with unprecedented speed. They are expected to greatly improve workflows in 3D computer-aided design and building information modeling, thanks to the robust performance in complex rendering and visualization tasks.
The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition is engineered for enterprise data center utilization, featuring a thermally efficient design allowing configurations of up to eight GPUs per server. This GPU is tailored for demanding workloads in various sectors, including healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and media, supporting next-generation AI, scientific, and visual computing applications.
Additionally, by integrating with Nvidia vGPU software, the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition can bolster AI workloads across virtualized settings while providing high-performance virtual workstation capabilities for remote operations. Anticipated updates for Nvidia vGPU support are expected in the latter half of the year.
“Foster + Partners has tested the Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition GPU on Cyclops, our GPU-centric ray-tracing tool,” noted Martha Tsigkari, senior partner at Foster + Partners. “The new Nvidia Blackwell GPU has outperformed all previous models we have evaluated, achieving rendering speeds five times faster than the Nvidia RTX A6000 GPUs, which significantly enhances design feedback during early conceptualization.”
Jeff Hammoud, chief design officer at Rivian, emphasized the remarkable graphics capabilities enabled by the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition. “Working with a Varjo XR4 headset and Autodesk VRED, we achieved unprecedented visual clarity necessary for immersive automotive design reviews, pushing the limits of VR experience with remarkable pixel density.”
The RTX PRO GPUs utilize the Nvidia AI platform and are equipped with an increased memory capacity and advanced Tensor Cores to enhance a vast array of AI-accelerated applications built upon Nvidia CUDA and RTX technologies. This includes cutting-edge content creation tools and reasoning models like the Nvidia Llama Nemotron Reason family announced today, ensuring rapid inferencing capabilities. The ecosystem encompasses over 400 Nvidia CUDA-X libraries, empowering developers to create, streamline, deploy, and scale innovative AI applications across workstations, data centers, and cloud environments.
Organizations can accelerate their AI initiatives through local prototyping with the Nvidia RTX PRO GPU in conjunction with the Nvidia Omniverse and Nvidia AI Enterprise platforms. The Nvidia Blueprints and Nvidia NIM offer user-friendly inference microservices bolstered by enterprise-level support. This suite of tools allows enterprises to operate these applications at scale using the efficient RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition for complex, compute-intensive workloads.
Availability
The Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition is set to be available through prominent data center system partners such as Cisco, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, and Supermicro.
Cloud service and GPU cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and CoreWeave will soon offer instances powered by the Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition later this year. Additionally, this server edition GPU will be featured in data center platforms from ASUS, GIGABYTE, Ingrasys, Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), and other global partners.
Starting in April, the Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition and the Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition will be accessible through global distribution partners such as PNY and TD Synnex, with manufacturers like BOXX, Dell, HP Inc., Lambda, and Lenovo expected to have them available in May.
The Nvidia RTX PRO 5000, RTX PRO 4500, and RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell GPUs are anticipated to be rolled out during the summer from BOXX, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, as well as through global distribution partners.
Lastly, Nvidia RTX PRO Blackwell laptop GPUs will be available later this year from manufacturers including Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Razer.
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