NVIDIA RTX 5000 PRO Blackwell 48GB
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NVIDIA RTX 5000 PRO is NVIDIA's Blackwell-generation workstation card, slotting between the consumer RTX 5090 (32GB) and the RTX 6000 PRO Blackwell (96GB). 48GB GDDR7 makes it the smallest workstation card that fits a 70B Q4 model with comfortable context. Targets ML engineers and digital-content pros who need more VRAM than a 5090 ships with but can't justify the 6000 PRO price.
Sub-scores sum to 755 / 1000. Headline = 755 × 0.70 (Estimated-confidence discount) = 529. This is an algorithmic performance-tier score — distinct from, and often lower than, the editorial “Our verdict” below, which weighs value and real-world fit (especially for hardware we haven’t measured yet). How scoring works →
Extrapolated from 960 GB/s bandwidth — 115.2 tok/s estimated. No measured benchmarks yet.
Plain-English: Runs 70B with care — snappy enough for a coding agent; vision models supported.
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The 48GB sweet spot for solo-operator local AI. Roughly 2× the VRAM of an RTX 5090 with similar memory bandwidth (Blackwell GDDR7), in a 300W workstation form factor. Realistic uses: Llama 3.3 70B Q5_K_M with 16K context, Qwen 3 32B FP16, dual-purpose ML/CAD workstation. Big caveat: workstation pricing — expect ~$4,500-5,500 MSRP. Compare against dual 3090s (48GB combined for ~$1,200 used) if you can tolerate the dual-card software overhead.
Overview
NVIDIA RTX 5000 PRO is NVIDIA's Blackwell-generation workstation card, slotting between the consumer RTX 5090 (32GB) and the RTX 6000 PRO Blackwell (96GB). 48GB GDDR7 makes it the smallest workstation card that fits a 70B Q4 model with comfortable context. Targets ML engineers and digital-content pros who need more VRAM than a 5090 ships with but can't justify the 6000 PRO price.
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Specs
| VRAM | 48 GB |
| System RAM (typical) | 64 GB |
| Power draw (peak) | 300 W |
| Released | 2026 |
| MSRP | $5499 |
| Backends | CUDA Vulkan |
Models that fit
Open-weight models small enough to run on NVIDIA RTX 5000 PRO Blackwell 48GB with usable context.
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