NVIDIA Reveals Blackwell PRO Lineup of Chips for Workstations, Servers

<p>NVIDIA at its GTC conference in San Jose announced the NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell series — a new generation of workstation and server GPUs redefining workflows for AI&comma; technical&comma; creative&comma; engineering and design professionals with breakthrough accelerated computing&comma; AI inference&comma; ray tracing and neural rendering technologies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For everything from agentic AI&comma; simulation&comma; extended reality&comma; 3D design and complex visual effects to developing physical AI powering autonomous robots&comma; vehicles and smart spaces&comma; the RTX PRO Blackwell series provides professionals across industries the latest and greatest compute power&comma; memory capacity and data throughput right at their fingertips — from their desktop&comma; on the go with mobile workstations or powered by data center GPUs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new lineup includes&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul >&NewLine;<li><strong>Data center GPU&colon;<&sol;strong> NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Desktop GPUs&colon; <&sol;strong>NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition&comma; NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition&comma; NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell&comma; NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell and NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Laptop GPUs&colon;<&sol;strong> NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell&comma; NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell&comma; NVIDIA RTX PRO 3000 Blackwell&comma; NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell&comma; NVIDIA RTX PRO 1000 Blackwell and NVIDIA RTX PRO 500 Blackwell<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Software developers&comma; data scientists&comma; artists&comma; designers and engineers need powerful AI and graphics performance to push the boundaries of visual computing and simulation&comma; helping tackle incredible industry challenges&comma;” said Bob Pette&comma; vice president of enterprise platforms at NVIDIA&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Bringing NVIDIA Blackwell to workstations and servers will take productivity&comma; performance and speed to new heights&comma; accelerating AI inference serving&comma; data science&comma; visualization and content creation&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>NVIDIA Blackwell Technology Comes to Workstations and Data Centers<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs unlock the potential of generative&comma; agentic and physical AI by delivering exceptional performance&comma; efficiency and scale&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs feature&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul >&NewLine;<li><strong>NVIDIA Streaming Multiprocessor&colon; <&sol;strong>Offers up to 1&period;5x faster throughput and new neural shaders that integrate AI inside of programmable shaders to drive the next decade of AI-augmented graphics innovations&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Fourth-Generation RT Cores&colon; <&sol;strong>Delivers up to 2x the performance of the previous generation to create photoreal&comma; physically accurate scenes and complex 3D designs with optimizations for NVIDIA RTX™ Mega Geometry&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Fifth-Generation Tensor Cores&colon;<&sol;strong> Delivers up to 4&comma;000 AI trillion operations per second and adds support for FP4 precision and NVIDIA DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation&comma; enabling a new era of AI-powered graphics and the ability to run and prototype larger AI models faster&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Larger&comma; Faster GDDR7 Memory<&sol;strong>&colon; Boosts bandwidth and capacity — up to 96GB for workstations and servers and up to 24GB on laptops&period; This enables applications to run faster and work with larger&comma; more complex datasets for everything from tackling massive 3D and AI projects to exploring large-scale virtual reality environments&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Ninth-Generation NVIDIA NVENC&colon; <&sol;strong>Accelerates video encoding speed and improves quality for professional video applications with added support for 4&colon;2&colon;2 encoding&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Sixth-Generation NVIDIA NVDEC&colon;<&sol;strong> Provides up to double the H&period;264 decoding throughput and offers support for 4&colon;2&colon;2 H&period;264 and HEVC decode&period; Professionals can benefit from high-quality video playback&comma; accelerate video data ingestion and use advanced AI-powered video editing features&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Fifth-Generation PCIe<&sol;strong>&colon; Support for fifth-generation PCI Express provides double the bandwidth over the previous generation&comma; improving data transfer speeds from CPU memory and unlocking faster performance for data-intensive tasks&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>DisplayPort 2&period;1<&sol;strong>&colon; Drives high-resolution displays at up to 4K at 480Hz and 8K at 165Hz&period; Increased bandwidth enables seamless multi-monitor setups&comma; while high dynamic range and higher color depth support deliver more precise color accuracy for tasks like video editing&comma; 3D design and live broadcasting&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Multi-Instance GPU &lpar;MIG&rpar;&colon; <&sol;strong>The RTX PRO 6000 data center and desktop GPUs and 5000 series desktop GPUs feature MIG technology&comma; enabling secure partitioning of a single GPU into up to four instances &lpar;6000 series&rpar; or two instances &lpar;5000 series&rpar;&period; Fault isolation is designed to prevent workload interference for secure&comma; efficient resource allocation for diverse workloads&comma; maximizing performance and flexibility&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>The new laptop GPUs also support the latest NVIDIA Blackwell Max-Q technologies&comma; which intelligently and continually optimize laptop performance and power efficiency with AI&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With neural rendering and AI-augmented tools&comma; NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs enable the creation of stunning visuals&comma; digital twins of real-world environments and immersive experiences with unprecedented speed and efficiency&period; The GPUs are built to elevate 3D computer-aided design and building information model workflows&comma; offering designers and engineers exceptional performance for complex modeling&comma; rendering and visualization&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Designed for enterprise data center deployments&comma; the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition features a passively cooled thermal design and can be configured with up to eight GPUs per server&period; For workloads that require the compute density and scale that data centers offer&comma; the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition delivers powerful performance for next-generation AI&comma; scientific and visual computing applications across industries such as healthcare&comma; manufacturing&comma; retail and media and entertainment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition&comma; this powerful data center GPU can be combined with <a title&equals;"" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nvidia&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;data-center&sol;virtual-solutions&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener"><u>NVIDIA vGPU™ software<&sol;u><&sol;a> to power AI workloads across virtualized environments and deliver high-performance virtual workstation instances to remote users&period; NVIDIA vGPU support for the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU is expected in the latter half of this year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Foster &plus; Partners has tested the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition GPU on Cyclops&comma; our GPU-based ray-tracing product&comma;” said Martha Tsigkari&comma; head of applied research and development and senior partner at Foster &plus; Partners&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The new NVIDIA Blackwell GPU has managed to outperform everything we have tested before&period; For example&comma; when using it with Cyclops&comma; it has performed at 5x the speed of NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs&period; Rendering speeds also increased 5x&comma; allowing tools like Cyclops to provide feedback on how well our design solutions perform in real time as we design them and resulting in intuitive yet informed decision-making from early conceptual stages&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Early evaluation of the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell technology by GE HealthCare’s engineering team has found the potential for up to 2x GPU processing time improvement on reconstruction algorithms&comma; which could lead to significant benefit to customers&comma;” said Rekha Ranganathan&comma; senior executive and general manager of platforms and digital solutions at GE HealthCare&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition will soon be available in server configurations from data center system partners including Cisco&comma; Dell Technologies&comma; <a title&equals;"" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;hpe&period;com&sol;us&sol;en&sol;newsroom&sol;press-release&sol;2025&sol;03&sol;hewlett-packard-enterprise-introduces-new-enterprise-ai-solutions-with-nvidia-to-accelerate-time-to-value-for-generative-agentic-and-physical-ai-models&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener"><u>Hewlett Packard Enterprise<&sol;u><&sol;a>&comma; Lenovo and Supermicro&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cloud service providers and GPU cloud providers including AWS&comma; Google Cloud&comma; Microsoft Azure and CoreWeave will be among the first to offer instances powered by the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition later this year&period; In addition&comma; the server edition GPU will be available in data center platforms from ASUS&comma; GIGABYTE&comma; Ingrasys&comma; Quanta Cloud Technology &lpar;QCT&rpar; and other global system partners&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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