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For those wondering about the performance of the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation workstation performance on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with the up-to-date NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers now relying on the open-source kernel modules, this article is for you in looking at the performance of this high-end workstation graphics card on the up-to-date Linux software stack. The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation is tested alongside the RTX 2000 / 4000 Ada Generation graphics cards and also the AMD Radeon PRO W7000 series competition atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

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While the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation launched in early 2023, it remains a very performant graphics card for workstation use. It was only a few weeks ago I finally received a NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation graphics card review sample from NVIDIA and thus putting it through its paces now under Linux. This does allow for a nice look at how the mature software support is competing for both the NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation graphics cards as well as the AMD Radeon PRO W7000 series on their respective drivers.

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The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation graphics card features 48GB GDDR6 ECC video memory, 142 third-generation RT cores, 588 fourth-generation Tensor Cores, and 18,176 CUDA cores.

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The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation is rated for 300 Watt maximum power consumption. The RTX 6000 Ada Generation employs a blower fan for cooling.

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There are four DisplayPort 1.4 outputs on this workstation graphics card.

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Pricing on the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation is typically in the $6~7k space depending upon retailer, etc. It's an expensive but powerful workstation graphics card.

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The workstation graphics cards tested for this fresh Linux GPU/driver comparison included:

- NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

- NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

- AMD Radeon PRO W7500

- AMD Radeon PRO W7600

- AMD Radeon PRO W7700

- AMD Radeon PRO W7900

The tested workstation graphics cards were based on those that I had available. All testing was done from an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X desktop running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The Linux 6.8 kernel was in use and for the NVIDIA RTX testing the 560.35.03 driver was used with NVIDIA's open kernel modules. On the AMD side their latest packaged driver with ROCm 6.2 was used and Mesa 24.2-devel.

So let's continue on with this fresh look at the NVIDIA RTX 2000/4000/6000 Ada Generation vs. AMD Radeon PRO W7500/W7600/W7700/W7900 comparison on these latest H2'2024 Linux drivers.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=nvidia-rtx-6000-ada&image=nvidia_rtx6000_ada_1_lrg

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=nvidia-rtx-6000-ada&image=nvidia_rtx6000_ada_2_lrg

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=nvidia-rtx-6000-ada&image=nvidia_rtx6000_ada_3_lrg

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=nvidia-rtx-6000-ada&image=nvidia_rtx6000_ada_5_lrg

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=nvidia-rtx-6000-ada&image=nvidia_rtx6000_ada_4_lrg

[6] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=nvidia-rtx-6000-ada&image=nvidia_rtx6000_ada_6_lrg

[7] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=nvidia-rtx-6000-ada&image=nvidia_rtx6000_ada_7_lrg