RTX Pro Is Your New Workstation GPU Family From Nvidia
Published: 05-06-2025
IMAGE CREDIT: Nvidia
While we’re as nostalgic for the old Quadro brand as much as the next leading workstation system builder, those days are now long behind us and, for a while now, Nvidia’s professional GPU branding has been a little ambivalent.
Now, however, the message is clear: RTX PRO is the name of the game, and is the official branding that finally brings the Blackwell architecture to workstation systems.
The Blackwell Desktop Card Family
There are five cards in the initially announced set of cards starting with the RTX PRO 4000 and ending with the RTX Pro 6000.
You’ll notice there’s a “Max-Q” version of the 6000 that consumes half of the power of the standard PRO 6000. Nvidia used to use the Max-Q branding with low power versions of laptop GPUs, but the company has resurrected the branding here.
Since these cards are heavily aimed at AI applications, VRAM is a key specification, and ranges from 24GB to 96GB. That’s decent, but with unified systems capable of hundreds of gigs for GPU use while crunching AI models, time will tell if this is enough.
As any proper professional card should, the RTX Pro series come with numerous certifications, and both the hardware and drivers are extensively tested for stability in mission-critical applications. Be it CAD software, 3D rendering jobs, or crucial scientific and engineering simulations.
Since these cards are based on the Blackwell architecture we’ve already seen in the consumer RTX line, we know they’re going to be the fastest professional cards on the planet, and every aspect has been leveled up, with specialised cores for ray tracing and machine learning improving by a generation.
RTX PRO Comes to Laptops
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It’s not just big power-hungry desktop systems that are getting the RTX PRO Blackwell treatment. All the same architectural improvements are coming to workstation laptops, with a focus on Max- technology to allow more serious work on thin-and-light professional laptops.
This is the most advanced and aggressive laptop GPU generation for dynamic performance tuning, and microsecond frequency adjustment. Nvidia also claims that AI-powered algorithms can help keep temperatures and fan noise down while still offering as much performance as possible within that envelope.
These GPUs also feature advanced power gating that rapidly turns unused parts of the GPU off to save power, and the GPU can even now be used to optimize the CPU’s performance and temperature.
There are six RTX PRO laptop GPUs at the moment, starting with the RTX PRO 500, and ending with the 5000. The chips range from 35W to 175W, and 9.2 TFLOPs to 49.8 TFLOPs. Perhaps of more interest is the AI TOPS range, with the lowest card offering 294, and the flagship model with 1824!
Professional Computing Gets a Long-Awaited Upgrade
We’ve been looking at the Blackwell mainstream cards with envy for what feels like forever now, and we know some of you have already indulged in consumer-grade cards for professional use, even if they don’t come with all the stability and compatibility the RTX PRO line does, but now finally we’re getting the best of the best GPU technology in our workstations and servers.
We can’t wait to show you what our new Titan systems with RTX PRO are capable of, and you won’t have to wait long!
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