NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q 96GB

NVIDIA’s workstation Blackwell card: 96GB GDDR7 ECC at 1,792 GB/s, 2025, $8,565 MSRP - and it shares the RTX 5090’s bandwidth number while carrying three times the memory. Two variants on this site: the 600W standard card and the 300W Max-Q (same memory, same bandwidth, lower clocks and price of admission to your PSU).

What it does well:

• 96GB single-slot capacity: 70B dense at 8-bit, 235B-class MoE at 4-bit, in one card with full CUDA - the largest-memory single GPU on this site that runs the standard consumer runtime stack.
• Server-grade memory: ECC GDDR7 and datacenter driver support, in a dual-slot card a workstation can hold.

Where it falls short: $8,565 MSRP is 4.3x a 5090 for the same bandwidth - you are paying for the memory, not speed. Street prices above MSRP have been the norm since launch.

Run it locally: full CUDA stack - llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM. The modeldex results rank checkpoints by fit and estimated tok/s.