NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090. All released in 2025. MSRP range: $8,499 · $1,999. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Where to buy
Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 96 | 32 |
| vram type | — | GDDR7 |
| tdp w | 300 | 575 |
| cuda cores | 20480 | 21760 |
Synthetic benchmarks
Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.
| Benchmark | NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Port Royal | — | 45,808 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | — | 16,532 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 16,080 points | 11,906 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad (4K) | — | 14,133 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 51,776 points | 46,229 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 28,009 points | — |
| Blender Benchmark - Classroom | 4,041 samples/min | — |
| Blender Benchmark - Junkshop | 4,159 samples/min | — |
| Blender Benchmark - Monster | 7,870 samples/min | — |
| PassMark G2D Mark | — | 1,412 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 37,970 points | 38,935 pts |
| Procyon AI Text Generation - Llama2 | 8,008 points | — |
AI inference (tokens/sec)
Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- qwen3:14b: 1743.8 tok/s
- deepseek-r1:32b: 829.0 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B FP8: 380.0 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
- Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct: 5841.0 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B FP8: 420.0 tok/s
- Llama 2 7B: 263.6 tok/s
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