Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada vs Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (98/100)

Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell leads overall with a score of 98/100 compared to Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada (48/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Efficiency 58.0 Below Average WINNER 49.0 Poor
Gaming 47.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Fire Strike 37396 75325
Night Raid 158480 214655
Port Royal 8974 39888
Solar Bay 65875 255911
Time Spy 14438 42614
Wild Life Extreme 110070

API

API specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
CUDA 8.9 12
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
1080p High 147 284
1080p Ultra 122 242
1440p Ultra 92 196
4K Ultra 53 118
CoD: Modern Warfare III 1261198856 305296252176
Counter-Strike 2 25320113580 36226320393
Cyberpunk 2077 112966430 25322116071
Far Cry 6 13112310158 221198185112
Forza Horizon 5 149989163 309235215175
Ghost of Tsushima 94796133 206170158107
Hogwarts Legacy 102826634 23518915089
Margin of Error High High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 17515711965 319298224121
The Witcher 3 17714310354 343311216116

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 36574 90853
Face Detection (HP) 40416 103224
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 9717 16903
Image Segmentation (HP) 19365 48518
Image Super Resolution (Q) 29227 54618
Machine Translation (HP) 4193 7291
Object Detection (SP) 10820 26498
Pose Estimation (Q) 105639 338587
Style Transfer (SP) 200936 635289
Text Classification (SP) 3577 3894

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 235.3 img/sec 366.1 img/sec
Edge Detection 7.44 Gpixels/sec 35.2 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 157.9 img/sec 248 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.58 Gpixels/sec 2.47 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7.87 Gpixels/sec 45 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 5.53 Gpixels/sec 23.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 22409.2 FPS 42574.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 737.7 Gpixels/sec 3040 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Architecture Ada Lovelace Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD104 GB202-300-A1
Launch price (MSRP) $1250 $8559
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 14700Kor above -AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3Dor above
Released August 9, 2023 March 18, 2026
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Base Clock 1500 MHz 1590 MHz
Boost Clock 2175 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 48 188
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 48MB shared 128MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 48 188
Render Output Units (ROPs) 80 190
Shading Units 6144 24064
Tensor Cores 192 752
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 192 752

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Bus 160-bit 512-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 20 GB 96 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
DirectX 11 203 FPS 339 FPS
DirectX 12 93 FPS 154 FPS
G2D Mark 1112 1391
GPU Compute 11917 Ops/s 26607 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Die Size 294 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 130 W 600 W
Transistor Count 35 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 119.05 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Pixel Fill Rate 174 GPixel/s 497 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 418 GTexel/s 1968 GTexel/s

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