NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Impresses in Gaming Benchmarks — Despite Workstation Focus

The newly released NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition is already turning heads — not just in professional workloads, but also in gaming. Armed with a massive 96 GB of VRAM, this high-end GPU is designed for demanding workstation tasks, yet early users are finding it to be a surprisingly powerful performer in games, even rivalling NVIDIA’s top-tier consumer card, the RTX 5090.

Specs and Benchmark Results: Power to Spare

Built around the GB202 GPU, the RTX PRO 6000 features a staggering 24,064 CUDA cores, outclassing the 21,760 cores found in the RTX 5090. The trade-off? Higher power consumption, rated at 600W compared to the RTX 5090’s 575W.

Reddit user Privaterbok ran a series of benchmarks comparing the RTX PRO 6000 in stock and lightly overclocked configurations. Here are the results:

• Time Spy: 51,776/ 54,300
• Time Spy Extreme: 28,009/ 30,019
• Steel Nomad: 16,080/ 16,804
• Portal Royal: 39,938/ 42,374
• Geekbench 6:

1. OpenCL: 410,031/ 434,166
2. Vulkan: 412,310/ 431,723

In stock configuration, the PRO 6000 outpaced the RTX 5090 by 9–10%, and that lead stretched to 14% after mild overclocking.

Gaming Performance: Not Its Purpose, but Still Exceptional

Despite being built for professional workloads, the RTX PRO 6000 holds its own in modern games. However, it does come with some caveats: it requires specialized workstation drivers, which means it lacks support for NVIDIA’s Game Ready optimizations and features commonly available to GeForce users.

Even so, the card delivered stellar gaming performance. In Cyberpunk 2077, running at 4K resolution with max graphics, RTX Ultra ray tracing, and DLSS 4 set to Auto, the card averaged:

• 127 FPS
• 92 FPS with full ray tracing
• 34 FPS with DLSS 4 disabled

Price Tag: Power at a Premium

Unsurprisingly, this level of performance doesn’t come cheap. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition is priced at around $8,000, significantly more than the consumer-grade RTX 5090, which already sits at the top of the market.

Final Thoughts

While it's not intended for gamers, the RTX PRO 6000 proves that workstation hardware can cross over into high-end gaming — with power to spare. Just be ready to pay the price, both in watts and in dollars.