RTX PRO 6000 vs RTX PRO 6000 SE: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the RTX PRO 6000 when you want the lower hourly rate and the specs are otherwise a wash. Choose the RTX PRO 6000 SE when RTX PRO 6000 SE pricing or availability works better where you're deploying.
Both the RTX PRO 6000 and the RTX PRO 6000 SE ship with 96 GB of VRAM.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX PRO 6000 from $1.66/GPU/hr; RTX PRO 6000 SE from $2.15/GPU/hr. The RTX PRO 6000 is 23% cheaper at the entry rate.
RTX PRO 6000
Good for training and serving frontier-scale LLMs
RTX PRO 6000 SE
Good for training and serving frontier-scale LLMs
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Specs side by side
| Spec | RTX PRO 6000 | RTX PRO 6000 SE |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 96 GB | 96 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,792 GB/s | 1,597 GB/s |
| Architecture | Blackwell | Blackwell |
| Compute capability | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 |
| Max board power (TDP) | 600W | Up to 600W (configurable) |
| Form factor | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe |
| Regions | 6 | 1 |
On-demand price
| Rate | RTX PRO 6000 | RTX PRO 6000 SE |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $1.98/GPU/hr | $2.15/GPU/hr (cheapest overall) |
Which is better for AI: RTX PRO 6000 or RTX PRO 6000 SE?
Choose the RTX PRO 6000 when you want the lower hourly rate and the specs are otherwise a wash. Choose the RTX PRO 6000 SE when RTX PRO 6000 SE pricing or availability works better where you're deploying.
RTX PRO 6000 vs RTX PRO 6000 SE: common questions
Is the RTX PRO 6000 or the RTX PRO 6000 SE better for AI?
Short answer: choose the RTX PRO 6000 when you want the lower hourly rate and the specs are otherwise a wash. Choose the RTX PRO 6000 SE when RTX PRO 6000 SE pricing or availability works better where you're deploying.
Is the RTX PRO 6000 or the RTX PRO 6000 SE cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX PRO 6000 starts at $1.66/GPU/hr (median $2.19/GPU/hr) and the RTX PRO 6000 SE starts at $2.15/GPU/hr (median $2.15/GPU/hr). The RTX PRO 6000 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 23%.
What is the difference between the RTX PRO 6000 and the RTX PRO 6000 SE?
Both cards report 96 GB of VRAM; both are Blackwell parts; both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the RTX PRO 6000 lists from $1.66/GPU/hr and the RTX PRO 6000 SE from $2.15/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the RTX PRO 6000 and the RTX PRO 6000 SE?
The RTX PRO 6000 is listed in 6 regions and the RTX PRO 6000 SE in 1 region right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX PRO 6000 vs the RTX PRO 6000 SE?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $1,663 on the RTX PRO 6000 and $2,148 on the RTX PRO 6000 SE, a difference of $485 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the RTX PRO 6000 have compared to the RTX PRO 6000 SE?
Both the RTX PRO 6000 and the RTX PRO 6000 SE ship with 96 GB of VRAM.
Does the RTX PRO 6000 or the RTX PRO 6000 SE support NVLink?
Neither the RTX PRO 6000 nor the RTX PRO 6000 SE has a dedicated GPU-to-GPU interconnect.
How this comparison is calculated
Every price is normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate using the same pipeline as every other pricing surface on Aquanode, and only the cheapest qualifying offer per provider is shown. A dash means that provider does not currently list that GPU.
Architecture, compute capability and supported precisions come from each vendor's published datasheet for that generation, not from the marketplace feed. This page regenerates at most once per hour.
Memory bandwidth, tensor TFLOPS, NVLink/interconnect and max board power are the same verified-from-datasheet figures shown on each model's own RTX PRO 6000 page and RTX PRO 6000 SE page, which link the primary vendor source for that model. A dash here means Aquanode hasn't verified that figure from a primary source yet, never a guess.
Go further
Check what fits in each card's memory with the RTX PRO 6000 VRAM calculator and the RTX PRO 6000 SE VRAM calculator, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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Related reading: RTX PRO 6000 pricing and specs, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell guide, RTX PRO 6000 vs RTX 5090, and NVIDIA DGX Spark guide.
