If you own an RTX 5090, I have some bad news. There's a new fastest gaming GPU in town, and it comes from Nvidia. Youtuber and famed overclocker der8auer got their hands on Nvidia's latest RTX Pro 6000 graphics card, which leverages the same GB202 GPU as the RTX 5090, though with 96GB of GDDR7 memory and nearly all the cores of the die enabled. As the name and memory configuration suggest, this isn't a graphics card targeting gamers. Still, der8auer took it out for a spin in a suite of games, including Cyperpunk 2077 and Star Wars Outlaws, and found that the GPU is up to 14% faster than the RTX 5090.

Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 is an odd gaming champion

Provided you have around $10,000 to burn

In some ways, there's nothing surprising about the performance of the RTX Pro 6000 given the hardware it packs. In others, it's astounding considering this is a workstation GPU that can't use Nvidia's Game Ready Drivers. Instead, it has to use the slightly older workstation driver that Nvidia updates on a separate track. Still, it works a treat based on der8auer's testing. In 3DMark Time Spy Extreme, the RTX Pro 6000 was 13% faster than the RTX 5090. 3DMark Speedway was slightly less impressive, showcasing an 8% jump.

The real impressive results are in the games, however. The YouTuber showed a 14% lead for the RTX Pro 6000 in Cyberpunk 2077, and a massive 11% lead in Star Wars Outlaws. That's despite running the workstation driver, too. Nvidia's professional GPUs can showcase some strange behavior in games, despite what the hardware suggests, due to driver differences. But with the RTX Pro 6000, there's shockingly clear scaling between it and the RTX 5090.

Although the RTX Pro 6000 is the "new gaming king," according to der8auer, it's insanely expensive. The list price of the GPU is $8,565, and looking around online, I found listings as high as $13,000. This is undeniably a workstation graphics card, and it comes with a price to match.

It has some oddities being a workstation card, too. In addition to a glossy shroud that isn't present on other Founder's Edition designs, der8auer notes that the card lacks any way to turn off the fans while idle. Most consumer GPUs will shut down the fans completely when the card is cool enough, but the RTX Pro 6000 doesn't — presumably, that's to keep the card cool at all times inside a server, which may improve its lifespan.

Despite the differences in driver support and functionality, the RTX Pro 6000 certainly looks like a gaming graphics card, fit with the same flow-through air design as other Nvidia Founder's Edition designs and the same 16-pin power connector. Nvidia's Multi-Frame Generation (MFG) even works on the GPU, at least in Cyberpunk 2077.