Despite being crafted for workstations and burdened with a dull-sounding name, the RTX Pro 6000 clobbered Cyberpunk 2077, Star Wars Outlaws, Remnant 2 and Assassin's Creed Mirage. It even squared up to the mighty RTX 5090 and RTX 4090 in the same setup, before being dubbed "the new gaming king" by Hartung.

In his 15-minute video, der8auer confessed he'd quite like to run the RTX Pro 6000 in his personal gaming machine, despite it lacking a Game Ready Driver. The thing only runs on a workstation driver, but that apparently didn't hinder its gaming prowess.

Cyberpunk 2077 was first in the dock, running at 4K with all the knobs turned up and no ray tracing. der8auer's charts showed the RTX Pro 6000 was 14 per cent faster than the RTX 5090 on average, with 13 per cent better 1 per cent lows. The downside? It sucked up 15 per cent more juice, which is probably not a concern for anyone daft enough to drop ten grand on a graphics card.

The card bested its consumer cousins in Star Wars Outlaws and Remnant 2 by 11 per cent each, and managed a three per cent edge in Assassin's Creed Mirage. That last result might be a software hiccup, Hartung suggested.

While the RTX Pro 6000 shares the GB202 GPU with the RTX 5090, it's stuffed with 24,064 shaders, more TMUs, ROPs, Tensor cores and RT cores. Where it really pulls away is in memory. This beast packs 96GB of GDDR7 on a 512-bit bus, compared to the 5090's 32GB.

However, not everything is rainbows and ray tracing. der8auer mentioned that the cooler, styled after Nvidia's Founders Edition, may be compact but the fans ramp up ferociously.

"This is the worst coil whine I’ve ever heard, it’s insanely loud," he observed, though added that the noise from the fans was so absurd you could barely hear the whining.

And then there's the minor matter of cost. Hartung reckoned the extra 64GB of VRAM probably costs about $200 more to make, but the price jump from $2,000 for the RTX 5090 to $10,000 for the RTX Pro 6000 doesn't scream value.