AMD Instinct MI210 64GB vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side GPU comparison of the AMD Instinct MI210 64GB and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell. Released 2021 (AMD Instinct MI210 64GB), 2025 (NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell). MSRP range: $13,000 · $8,499. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Where to buy
A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | AMD Instinct MI210 64GB | NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 64 | 96 |
| tdp w | 300 | 300 |
| cuda cores | — | 20480 |
Synthetic benchmarks
Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from 3DMark, TechSpot, StorageReview, Chips and Cheese, AMD Official Specs and PassMark; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.
| Benchmark | AMD Instinct MI210 64GB | NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: 3DMark |
— | 15,939 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: TechSpot |
— | 51,776 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better) Source: TechSpot |
— | 28,009 points |
| Blender Benchmark - Classroom (higher is better) Source: StorageReview |
— | 4,041 samples/min |
| Blender Benchmark - Junkshop (higher is better) Source: StorageReview |
— | 4,159 samples/min |
| Blender Benchmark - Monster (higher is better) Source: StorageReview |
— | 7,870 samples/min |
| HBM2e L2 Cache Bandwidth (micro-benchmark) (higher is better) Source: Chips and Cheese |
3,700 GB/s | — |
| HBM2e Peak Memory Bandwidth (theoretical) (higher is better) Source: AMD Official Specs |
1,638 GB/s | — |
| PassMark G3D Mark (higher is better) Source: PassMark |
— | 37,970 points |
| Procyon AI Text Generation - Llama2 (higher is better) Source: StorageReview |
— | 8,008 points |
| Procyon AI Text Generation - Llama3 (higher is better) Source: StorageReview |
— | 6,501 points |
| Procyon AI Text Generation - Mistral (higher is better) Source: StorageReview |
— | 7,346 points |
AI inference (tokens/sec)
Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.
AMD Instinct MI210 64GB
- llama2:7b: 718.1 tok/s (EmbeddedLLM)
- llama2:7b: 718.1 tok/s (EmbeddedLLM)
- llama2:13b: 595.1 tok/s (EmbeddedLLM)
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- qwen3:14b: 1743.8 tok/s (DatabaseMart)
- deepseek-r1:32b: 829.0 tok/s (DatabaseMart)
- Llama 3.1 8B FP8: 380.0 tok/s (Runpod)
Quick answers
What did the AMD Instinct MI210 64GB and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell cost at launch?
The AMD Instinct MI210 64GB launched at a $13,000 MSRP and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell at $8,499. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.
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