NVIDIA Unveils Blackwell RTX PRO Series For Workstations And Servers, Revolutionising Agentic AI And Graphics Performance

NVIDIA has introduced the Blackwell RTX PRO series, featuring powerful GPUs designed for workstations and servers. These GPUs enhance Agentic AI, graphics, and simulation capabilities for professionals in design, engineering, and data science.

NVIDIA has launched the NVIDIA RTX PRO™ Blackwell series, a next-generation lineup of workstation and server GPUs engineered to transform workflows for professionals in industries such as AI, technical computing, design, and creative fields. These NVIDIA GPUs deliver breakthrough performance in AI inference, ray tracing, neural rendering, and accelerated computing, providing exceptional power for tasks in simulation, 3D design, extended reality (XR), and scientific computing.

The RTX PRO Blackwell series is designed to support professionals in pushing the limits of AI, graphics, and simulation. Whether developing Agentic AI, designing complex 3D models, or creating immersive XR experiences, the Blackwell GPUs offer unparalleled performance. The series is suitable for a wide range of industries, including healthcare, automotive, media entertainment, and more.

Key offerings in the NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell series

The NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell series offers a range of configurations designed to meet the varied needs of professionals across different computing environments. For data centres, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition provides powerful performance, enabling enterprises to handle demanding AI and scientific workloads. 

The desktop options include the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition, NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell, NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell, and NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell, catering to high-performance requirements in fields like design, AI, and 3D rendering. 

For mobile professionals, the laptop range offers the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell, NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell, NVIDIA RTX PRO 3000 Blackwell, NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell, NVIDIA RTX PRO 1000 Blackwell, and NVIDIA RTX PRO 500 Blackwell, providing flexibility and power in portable form factors. This extensive lineup ensures that professionals from data centres to mobile workstations can find the right GPU to meet their specific demands.

Enhanced AI and graphics performance for professionals

The RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs bring a host of innovations that provide exceptional performance, efficiency, and scale. Designed for demanding AI applications and complex visual effects, these GPUs leverage the following key technologies:

• NVIDIA Streaming Multiprocessor: With up to 1.5x faster throughput and new neural shaders that integrate AI within programmable shaders, this feature drives a new generation of AI-augmented graphics innovations.
• Fourth-Generation RT Cores: These cores provide up to 2x the performance of previous generations, enabling the creation of photorealistic, physically accurate scenes and optimising complex 3D designs.
• Fifth-Generation Tensor Cores: Capable of delivering up to 4,000 AI trillion operations per second, these cores support FP4 precision and NVIDIA’s DLSS 4 Multi-Frame Generation, facilitating faster AI inference and the ability to run and prototype larger AI models.
• Larger, Faster GDDR7 Memory: Workstations and servers can now feature up to 96GB of memory, while laptops can hold up to 24GB. This increased capacity enables professionals to handle massive datasets and complex AI projects.
• Ninth-Generation NVIDIA NVENC and Sixth-Generation NVIDIA NVDEC: These technologies accelerate video encoding and decoding, offering superior quality for video applications, including high-quality video playback, faster data ingestion, and enhanced AI-powered video editing features.
• Fifth-Generation PCIe: With double the bandwidth of the previous generation, PCIe Gen 5 enhances data transfer speeds, boosting performance for data-intensive tasks.
• DisplayPort 2.1: Supporting resolutions of up to 8K at 165Hz and 4K at 480Hz, DisplayPort 2.1 allows for seamless multi-monitor setups with precise colour accuracy, ideal for tasks like video editing and 3D design.

AI-powered innovation for every industry

NVIDIA’s Blackwell technology supports the development of agentic, physical, and generative AI. This integration enables professionals to push the boundaries of visual computing, simulation, and AI modelling. By leveraging neural rendering and AI-augmented tools, the RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs accelerate workflows in everything from 3D design to autonomous vehicle development.

One of the standout features is the Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) technology, available in both the RTX PRO 6000 and 5000 series. This technology enables the secure partitioning of a single GPU into multiple instances, optimising resource allocation and performance for various workloads.

For professionals working in extended reality (XR), the RTX PRO Blackwell series provides cutting-edge visual experiences, while its advanced AI capabilities enable the creation of digital twins and immersive environments with unprecedented speed and precision.

Enterprise data centres and virtual workstations

The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition, optimised for data centres, boasts a passively cooled thermal design and supports configurations with up to eight GPUs per server. This GPU offers scalable, high-performance computing for next-generation AI and visual computing applications across industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, and media.

In addition to its robust on-premises capabilities, the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition can be combined with NVIDIA vGPU software, enabling high-performance virtual workstation instances for remote users. This versatility ensures that AI workloads and data-intensive tasks can be run efficiently across both local and cloud environments.

As Bob Pette, vice president of enterprise platforms at NVIDIA, states, “Software developers, data scientists, artists, designers, and engineers need powerful AI and graphics performance to push the boundaries of visual computing and simulation, helping tackle incredible industry challenges. Bringing NVIDIA Blackwell to workstations and servers will take productivity, performance, and speed to new heights, accelerating AI inference serving, data science, visualisation, and content creation.”

Industry endorsements and early testing results

Early evaluations from prominent industry players highlight the exceptional capabilities of the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell series:

Foster + Partners, a leading architectural firm, tested the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q GPU on Cyclops, their GPU-based ray-tracing tool: “The new NVIDIA Blackwell GPU has managed to outperform everything we have tested before. For example, when using it with Cyclops, it has performed at 5x the speed of NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs. Rendering speeds also increased 5x, allowing tools like Cyclops to provide feedback on how well our design solutions perform in real-time, resulting in intuitive yet informed decision-making from early conceptual stages,” says Martha Tsigkari, Head of Applied Research and Development and Senior Partner at Foster + Partners. 

GE HealthCare sees potential to enhance medical imaging processing: “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, which could lead to significant benefit to customers,” says Rekha Ranganathan, Senior Executive and General Manager of Platforms and Digital Solutions at GE HealthCare.

Rivian, an electric vehicle company, uses the GPUs for high-end VR automotive design: “In conjunction with a Varjo XR4 headset and Autodesk VRED, the system delivered the level of crispness necessary for immersive automotive design reviews, with NVIDIA Blackwell support for PCIe Gen 5, we used two powerful 600W GPUs via VR SLI, allowing us to achieve the highest pixel density and the most stunning visuals we have ever experienced in VR, ”says Jeff Hammoud, Chief Design Officer at Rivian.  

SoftServe reports major productivity gains: “The 96GB memory and massive AI processing power in the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition GPU has boosted our productivity up to 3x with AI models like Llama 3.3-70B and Mixtral 8x7b, we’ve seen immediate performance improvements... unlocking new possibilities for interactive demos and production workloads in retail, manufacturing and industrial edge applications,”  says Shaun Greene, Director of Industry Solutions at SoftServe.

Availability and future developments

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition is set to be available through leading data centre system partners, including Cisco, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Lenovo. Cloud service providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud will also offer instances powered by the RTX PRO 6000 later this year.

The desktop GPUs, including the RTX PRO 6000 and 5000 series, will be available from global distribution partners like PNY and TD SYNNEX starting in April, with availability from manufacturers such as BOXX, Dell, and Lenovo in May. Laptop GPUs will be available later this year from manufacturers like Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Razer.

For more information on the NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell series, professionals can watch the GTC keynote and explore extended-reality demos at The Tech Interactive museum.

About NVIDIA

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a global leader in accelerated computing technology, renowned for pioneering advancements in graphics processing units (GPUs), artificial intelligence (AI), and high-performance computing. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company transformed the gaming industry with the invention of the GPU in 1999 and has since expanded its technologies to power breakthroughs in AI, data science, autonomous vehicles, robotics, digital twins, and scientific research.

Through its platforms such as NVIDIA RTX™, CUDA®, Omniverse™, and AI Enterprise, NVIDIA enables developers, researchers, and enterprises to tackle complex challenges and build innovative solutions across industries including healthcare, automotive, finance, education, and media. With a deep ecosystem of hardware, software, and AI frameworks, NVIDIA continues to shape the future of computing, driving advancements from the edge to the data centre and beyond.