Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell vs GeForce RTX 5080
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Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
GB202-300-A1
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080
GB203-400
We compared two discrete desktop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell 96 GB with 188 pipelines and 24064 shaders against the 1 year and 3 months older GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB that utilizes 84 pipelines and 10752 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
- Performs better (up to 38%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (126 vs 56.3 TFLOPS)
- Shows 19% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 196 vs 165 FPS
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5080
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 309 235 215 175 |
250 186 179 138 |
| The Witcher 3 | 343 311 216 116 |
271 244 172 90 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 362 263 203 93 |
317 238 178 87 |
| Far Cry 6 | 221 198 185 112 |
194 171 155 97 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 235 189 150 89 |
185 152 124 67 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 305 296 252 176 |
250 244 197 135 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 206 170 158 107 |
166 142 126 82 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 253 221 160 71 |
213 192 138 61 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 319 298 224 121 |
306 276 214 111 |
| 1080p High | 284 | 239 |
| 1080p Ultra | 242 | 205 |
| 1440p Ultra | 196 | 165 |
| 4K Ultra | 118 | 96 |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 42614 | 33000 |
| Solar Bay | 255911 | 161489 |
| Port Royal | 39888 | 23275 |
| Fire Strike | 75325 | 75605 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 110070 | 69617 |
| Night Raid | 214655 | 199650 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 366.1 img/sec | 319.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 248 img/sec | 225 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 23.3 Gpixels/sec | 13.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 35.2 Gpixels/sec | 19.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 45 Gpixels/sec | 20.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 2.47 Gpixels/sec | 2.33 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 3040 Gpixels/sec | 1750 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 42574.6 FPS | 43676.6 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1391 | 1397 |
| DirectX 11 | 339 FPS | 327 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 154 FPS | 145 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 26607 Ops/s | 19034 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 5080
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-01 (Nowh) | Cinebench 2024 | 95861 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 16903 | 15441 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 48518 | 47173 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 54618 | 43223 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 103224 | 92863 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 338587 | 202202 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3894 | 3701 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 7291 | 7905 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 26498 | 20955 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 90853 | 69068 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 635289 | 349205 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell and GeForce RTX 5080General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | March 18, 2026 | January 7, 2025 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $8559 | $999 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Professional | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Blackwell 2.0 |
| GPU Codename | GB202-300-A1 | GB203-400 |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D or above | - Intel Core Ultra 7 265K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (1st and 4th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1590 MHz | 2295 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2617 MHz | 2617 MHz |
| Shading Units | 24064 | 10752 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 752 | 336 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 190 | 112 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 188 | 84 |
| Tensor Cores | 752 | 336 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 188 | 84 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 128MB shared | 64MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 497 GPixel/s | 293 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 1968 GTexel/s | 879 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| TGP | 600 W | 360 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 4 nm |
| Die Size | 750 mm² | 378 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 92.2 billion | 45.6 billion |
| Transistor Density | 122.93 MTr/mm² | 120.63 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR7 |
| Memory Size | 96 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1875 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 28000 Mbps | 30000 Mbps |
| Bus | 512-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | Yes | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 12 | 12.0 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | DLSS 4 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1b | 2.1b |
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