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UNIT · NVIDIA · GPU
24 GB VRAMworkstation·Reviewed June 2026

NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell

NVDA · HARDWARE
NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell

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Single-slot 140W Blackwell workstation card with 24GB GDDR7. The low-power, compact entry to the RTX PRO Blackwell line — fits small workstations and dense multi-card builds for local inference.

Released 2025·672 GB/s memory bandwidth
RUNLOCALAI SCORE
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455/ 1000
CC-tier
Estimated
Throughput
234/ 500
VRAM-fit
170/ 200
Ecosystem
200/ 200
Efficiency
46/ 100

Sub-scores sum to 650 / 1000. Headline = 650 × 0.70 (Estimated-confidence discount) = 455. 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 672 GB/s bandwidth — 80.6 tok/s estimated. No measured benchmarks yet.

WORKLOAD FIT
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Plain-English: Workable at 32B, comfortable at 14B and below — snappy enough for a coding agent; vision models supported.

7B chat✓
Comfortable
14B chat✓
Comfortable
32B chat~
Tight
70B chat✗
Doesn't fit
Coding agent✓
Comfortable
Vision (≤8B VLM)✓
Comfortable
Long context (32K)✓
Comfortable
✓Comfortable — fits with headroom
~Tight — works, no slack
△Marginal — needs aggressive quant
✗Doesn't fit usefully

Verdicts extrapolated from catalog VRAM + bandwidth + ecosystem flags. Hover any chip for the rationale. Want measured numbers? Submit your own run with runlocalai-bench --submit.

BLK · VERDICT

Our verdict

OP · Eruo Fredoline|VERIFIED JUN 18, 2026
7.3/10

What it does well

The RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell is the efficiency pick of the workstation line: 24GB CUDA VRAM in a single-slot, 140W card. That combination is rare and valuable — it drops into compact or SFF workstations, and its low power + single-slot width make it ideal for dense multi-card inference servers where a 4090/5090 would be too hot and wide. 24GB runs 32B-class models at Q4 and most diffusion workloads comfortably, with full CUDA and ECC.

Where it struggles

At ~$1,500 it's far pricier than a used RTX 3090 (also 24GB) or a new RTX 5070 Ti/5080-class card, and its 140W power budget caps raw throughput below those higher-wattage parts — you're paying for efficiency, single-slot density, ECC, and pro drivers, not speed. For a single hobbyist inference box, cheaper 24GB options give more tokens/sec/dollar.

Bottom line

The card to buy when you need 24GB of CUDA in a single slot at low power — compact workstations and multi-GPU inference racks. For a standalone budget 24GB build, a used 3090 remains the value king.

BLK · OVERVIEW

Overview

Single-slot 140W Blackwell workstation card with 24GB GDDR7. The low-power, compact entry to the RTX PRO Blackwell line — fits small workstations and dense multi-card builds for local inference.

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BLK · SPECS

Specs

VRAM24 GB
Power draw (peak)140 W
Released2025
MSRP$1500
Backends
CUDA
Vulkan

Models that fit

Open-weight models small enough to run on NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell with usable context.

all-MiniLM-L6-v2
0.022B · other
FLUX.1 [dev]
12B · other
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
8B · llama
Kokoro 82M
0.082B · other
Nomic Embed Text v1.5
0.137B · other
BGE Large EN v1.5
0.335B · other
Qwen 3 0.6B
0.6B · qwen
all-mpnet-base-v2
0.109B · other
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Frequently asked

What models can NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell run?

With 24GB VRAM, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell runs models up to ~32B in 4-bit, with room for context. See the model list below for tested combinations.

Does NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell support CUDA?

Yes — NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell is an NVIDIA card with full CUDA support, the most mature local-AI backend. llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, and ExLlamaV2 all run natively.

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