AMD Radeon RX 570X vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Comparison

Where Each One Wins

The database shows two cards separated by an enormous technological gulf, and the use-case split is stark. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is a professional compute and ray-tracing monster, built for workloads that demand massive memory capacity, extreme throughput, and modern API support. The AMD Radeon RX 570X is an older, end-of-life Polaris card aimed at straightforward rasterization at modest resolutions, with legacy API compatibility and a low power footprint.

Looking at the recorded benchmark data, the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has only one entry in the database: a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 16,408. That places it at the 59th percentile among all GPUs. Its nearest rivals include the AMD Radeon PRO W7500 at 16,415 (a 0% delta), the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT at 16,361 (0.3% ahead of the RTX card), the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M at 16,351 (0.4% ahead), and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 at 16,504 (0.6% ahead). So in this specific DX12 test, the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is essentially tied with a group of midrange and older high-end cards. That is a telling result: for pure rasterization in a single synthetic benchmark, the massive Blackwell card does not run away from the pack.

The AMD Radeon RX 570X, meanwhile, has three benchmark entries. Its Geekbench OpenCL score is 38,939, its Passmark G2D score is 750, and its Passmark G3D score is 1,923. Its average benchmark score across those tests is 13,871, which places it at the 55th percentile. Its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile at 13,821 (0.4% ahead of the AMD card), the AMD Radeon 660M at 13,812 (0.4% ahead), the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT at 13,745 (0.9% ahead), and the NVIDIA Tesla K10 at 14,029 (1.1% behind the AMD card). The RX 570X is therefore competitive with a mobile workstation GPU and an integrated Radeon part in these legacy tests, and it even edges out a current-generation flagship Radeon in average score, which speaks more to the nature of the benchmarks than to the card's actual capability.

The practical split is clear. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell wins wherever memory capacity, ray tracing, tensor cores, and modern API features matter. The RX 570X wins in scenarios that favor low power draw, legacy driver support, and simple rasterization at 1080p or 1440p with older titles. For a builder assembling a workstation for AI inference, large dataset visualization, or 3D rendering with ray tracing, the NVIDIA card is the only sensible choice. For a budget-conscious gamer running older DirectX 11 or Vulkan 1.3 titles on a modest power supply, the RX 570X still has a role, but it is a niche one.

Architecture Differences

The architectural gap between these two GPUs is generational and fundamental. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell uses the GB202 chip built on TSMC's 5 nm process. The die measures 750 mm² and contains 92,200 million transistors, yielding a transistor density of 122.9 million per square millimeter. The AMD Radeon RX 570X uses the Polaris 20 chip on GlobalFoundries' 14 nm process. That die is 232 mm² with 5,700 million transistors, giving a density of 24.6 million per square millimeter. The NVIDIA chip is more than three times larger in die area and packs over sixteen times the transistor count. The density difference, a factor of roughly five, reflects the jump from a mature 14 nm planar process to a leading-edge 5 nm FinFET node.

Clock speeds tell a similar story. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has a base clock of 1590 MHz and a boost clock of 2617 MHz. The RX 570X runs at 1168 MHz base and 1244 MHz boost. Even at base clocks, the NVIDIA card is over 400 MHz higher, and its boost clock exceeds the AMD card's boost by nearly 1,400 MHz. This is not a matter of tuning; it is a reflection of process technology and power envelope.

The compute resources are in another league entirely. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has 24,064 shading units, 752 texture mapping units, and 192 ROPs. It includes 188 ray tracing cores and 752 tensor cores. The RX 570X has 2,048 shading units, 128 TMUs, and 32 ROPs. It has no ray tracing cores and no tensor cores, because GCN 4.0 predates both hardware acceleration for ray tracing and dedicated AI tensor hardware. The shading unit count is nearly twelve times higher on the NVIDIA card, and the ROP count is six times higher.

Memory architecture also diverges sharply. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell uses 96 GB of GDDR7 on a 512-bit bus, yielding 1.79 TB/s of bandwidth. The RX 570X uses 8 GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus, with 224.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The capacity difference is twelvefold, and the bandwidth difference is roughly eightfold. The NVIDIA card's memory clock is listed at 1750 MHz with 28 Gbps effective, while the AMD card's memory clock is 1750 MHz with 7 Gbps effective. The effective data rate is four times higher on the GDDR7 part.

Power and interface differences are equally pronounced. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has a TDP of 600 W, requires a 1000 W suggested PSU, and uses a single 16-pin connector. The RX 570X has a TDP of 150 W, a 450 W suggested PSU, and a single 6-pin connector. The NVIDIA card is a PCIe 5.0 x16 part, while the AMD card is PCIe 3.0 x16. Display outputs also differ: the RTX card offers four DisplayPort 2.1b outputs, while the RX 570X offers 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, and 3x DisplayPort 1.4a. API support favors the newer card as well: the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4, while the RX 570X supports DirectX 12 (12_0), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.3.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

There are no direct head-to-head benchmark entries in the database comparing these two cards on the same test. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has only its 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 16,408. The RX 570X has its Geekbench OpenCL, Passmark G2D, and Passmark G3D scores. Because the test suites do not overlap, a direct numerical comparison is impossible from the recorded data.

What the data does allow is a comparison through their respective nearest rivals. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's 16,408 in Steel Nomad DX12 puts it within 0.6% of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 (16,504) and within 0.3% of the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (16,361). That means in this particular DX12 rasterization test, the flagship workstation card is statistically indistinguishable from a 2019 gaming GPU. The RX 570X's average score of 13,871 across its three benchmarks places it in another tier entirely, roughly 15% below the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's single score, but the different test suites make that gap misleading.

The more meaningful interpretation comes from percentile ranks. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell sits at the 59th percentile among all GPUs. The RX 570X sits at the 55th percentile. Despite the massive architectural and specification differences, the percentile gap is only four points. This is because the database's benchmark suite weights certain workloads, and the RX 570X's legacy tests (Geekbench OpenCL, Passmark G2D, Passmark G3D) happen to include compute and 2D tasks where the older card does not fall as far behind as its specs suggest. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's single entry, 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, is a modern DX12 rasterization test that does not exercise ray tracing, tensor cores, or the card's massive memory bandwidth. In that narrow test, the card's advantages are largely dormant.

The takeaway is that the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is not a card that wins in rasterization-only synthetic benchmarks by a wide margin. Its 16,408 Steel Nomad score is within 0.6% of the RTX 5090 D V2, which is itself a gaming-oriented part. The RX 570X, by contrast, is a card that still holds up in OpenCL compute and 2D tasks, as shown by its Geekbench OpenCL score of 38,939 and Passmark G2D score of 750. Those are not numbers that rival the NVIDIA card, but they show a GPU that is not entirely obsolete for lighter compute duties.

FAQ

Q: Which card has more memory, and by how much?

A: The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has 96 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus. The AMD Radeon RX 570X has 8 GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus. That is a twelvefold difference in capacity.

Q: Does the AMD Radeon RX 570X support ray tracing?

A: No. The RX 570X has no ray tracing cores. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has 188 dedicated ray tracing cores.

Q: Which card has a higher transistor count?

A: The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has 92,200 million transistors on a 750 mm² die. The RX 570X has 5,700 million transistors on a 232 mm² die.

Q: What is the power draw difference?

A: The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has a TDP of 600 W with a suggested PSU of 1000 W. The RX 570X has a TDP of 150 W with a suggested PSU of 450 W.

Q: Which card has better API support?

A: The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. The RX 570X supports DirectX 12 (12_0), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.3.

Q: How do their benchmark percentiles compare?

A: The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is at the 59th percentile among all GPUs, based on its 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score. The RX 570X is at the 55th percentile, based on its Geekbench OpenCL, Passmark G2D, and Passmark G3D scores.

The Verdict

The data points to two completely different purchasing decisions. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is a professional workstation card with a launch MSRP of 8,565 USD. Its 96 GB of GDDR7 memory, 188 ray tracing cores, 752 tensor cores, and 126.0 TFLOPS of FP32 performance make it a tool for large-scale compute, AI inference, and high-end rendering. Its nearest rivals in the database are all within 0.6% of its Steel Nomad score, which means that in pure DX12 rasterization, it is not head and shoulders above midrange parts. But the benchmark data does not capture its actual strengths: memory capacity, ray tracing throughput, and tensor core performance are not reflected in a single 3DMark run.

The AMD Radeon RX 570X is an end-of-life product from 2018, built on GCN 4.0 with no ray tracing and no tensor cores. Its 8 GB of GDDR5 and 224.0 GB/s of bandwidth are sufficient for older games and light compute. Its average benchmark score of 13,871 and 55th percentile rank show that it still holds ground in legacy workloads, but its nearest rivals include integrated graphics and mobile parts, not workstation flagships. The RX 570X is a card for a secondary machine, a retro build, or a system where the 150 W TDP and 450 W PSU requirement are hard constraints.

For a professional user whose workload involves large datasets, ray-traced renders, or neural network inference, the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is the clear choice, and there is no data in this database that argues otherwise. For a user who needs a cheap, low-power card for older DirectX 12 titles or OpenCL compute, the RX 570X still has a place. There is no overlap between these two audiences, and the benchmark data confirms that the two cards should never be cross-shopped.

Specification Differences

The following specifications differ between the two cards, based only on the recorded data:

| Specification | NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | AMD Radeon RX 570X |

|---|---|---|

| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | GCN 4.0 |

| Process Node | 5 nm (TSMC) | 14 nm (GlobalFoundries) |

| Transistors | 92,200 million | 5,700 million |

| Die Size | 750 mm² | 232 mm² |

| Base Clock | 1590 MHz | 1168 MHz |

| Boost Clock | 2617 MHz | 1244 MHz |

| Memory Size | 96 GB GDDR7 | 8 GB GDDR5 |

| Memory Bus | 512 bit | 256 bit |

| Memory Bandwidth | 1.79 TB/s | 224.0 GB/s |

| Shading Units | 24,064 | 2,048 |

| TMUs | 752 | 128 |

| ROPs | 192 | 32 |

| Ray Tracing Cores | 188 | None |

| Tensor Cores | 752 | None |

| FP32 Performance | 126.0 TFLOPS | 5.095 TFLOPS |

| TDP | 600 W | 150 W |

| Power Connectors | 1x 16-pin | 1x 6-pin |

| Suggested PSU | 1000 W | 450 W |

| Bus Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |

| Display Outputs | 4x DisplayPort 2.1b | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a |

| DirectX Support | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 (12_0) |

| Vulkan Support | 1.4 | 1.3 |

| Production Status | Active | End-of-life |

| Release Date | 2025-03-17 | 2018-04-10 |

| Launch MSRP | 8,565 USD | Not available |