Nvidia RTX 6000 Pro Breaks 5090 Gaming Records
Famed overclocker Roman "der8auer" Hartung has upgraded his personal PC with an RTX 6000 Pro professional graphics card . He's shown that even without all the game-ready drivers Nvidia releases for its consumer cards, this GPU is an absolute monster. Thanks to the 6000 Pro's additional cores and greater memory capacity, he managed to beat standard RTX 5090 graphics cards by quite some margin.
The Nvidia RTX 5090 is the fastest gaming graphics card ever made, but it's not the fastest graphics card altogether. As der8auer proves in his latest video, the RTX Pro 6000 is technically the more capable card. It has the full complement of GB202 CUDA cores, at 24,064, and that means a handful more ROPs ( even in a 5090 that isn't missing some ) tensor cores, and RT cores. It also has more memory at 96GB in total, but draws more power, with a TDP of 600W.
The card's raw performance is impressive, though. It manages to beat the RTX 5090 in Time Spy Extreme by close to 15%, and in 3DMark Speedway it's around 8% faster with ray tracing enabled. It's more than 50% faster than the 4090, though, showing the advances Nvidia made with its RT accelerator technology between generations.
Hartung also shows the impressive efficiency of the RTX 6000 Pro. At just 75% power, it matches the performance of the RTX 5090—even with the 5090 pulling over 100W more.
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But what about gaming? Despite the lack of game-ready drivers, this card outstrips the RTX 5090 by some margin. In Cyberpunk 2077, it managed an uplift of over 14%, or 67% higher than the RTX 4090. It was similarly impressive in Star Wars Outlaws, and around 11% higher in average FPS in Remnant 2. In Assassin's Creed Mirage, however, the RTX 5090 was only a few percent behind the more expensive card, probably showcasing the effect "Game Ready" drivers can have.
Completing this monster PC is an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D CPU, an Asus Crosshair X870E motherboard, and 32GB of 6,000MT/s memory. That's an impressive setup, though the choice of memory shows that even some of the world's best overclockers just want a PC that runs well sometimes, rather than pushing everything to its limit.
Unfortunately, the RTX 6000 Pro does have some downsides. Besides costing over $11,000, it also suffers from serious coil whine, with Hartung describing it as the worst he'd ever heard from any GPU before. The fans also need aggressively tuning, as they spin very fast, and very loud.
At least that drowns out the coil whine.
