NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell sales 21 October 2025. This is a Blackwell 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 5 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 72 GB of GDDR7 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1.34 TB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 5.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 16-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 300 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 (2025−2026) | |
| GPU code name | GB202 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 21 October 2025 (recently) |
Detailed specifications
RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 14080 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 1740 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 2377 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 92,200 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 5 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 300 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 1,045.9 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 66.94 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 176 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 440 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| Tensor Cores | 440 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 110 | of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| L1 Cache | 13.8 MB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 96 MB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 16-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR7 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 72 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | |
| Memory clock speed | 1750 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1.34 TB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 4x DisplayPort 2.1b |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.8 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | |
| CUDA | 12.0 | |
| DLSS | + |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell is Radeon PRO W7900.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
