NVIDIA Upgrades RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell GPU With Monstrous 72GB VRAM

It's usually gamers who are the most vocal about more more VRAM on their graphics cards, but it's especially beneficial in the workstation and server space as the industry puts a bigger emphasis on machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. As such, NVIDIA is now offering an upgraded version of its RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell accelerator with a whopping 72GB of GDDR7.

That's a generous 50% increase in VRAM capacity compared to the original release's 48GB. Both are of the GDDR7 type with error correcting code (ECC). Other specifications remain the same, meaning the RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell features a 512-bit memory bus on both variants, resulting in 1,344GB/s of memory bandwidth.

For context, NVIDIA's flagship GPU for gaming, the GeForce RTX 5090, mates 32GB of GDDR7 (28Gbps) to a 512-bit bus for 1,792GB/s of memory bandwidth. That's ...