It was supposed to be end of April but haven’t heard anything in a bit.
Ordered from Scan.co.uk OEM version. Estimated delivery initially was April 30th but it’s been pushed back to 5th May here in the UK
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Just checked in and it sounds like they are expecting it sometime towards the end of may.
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My vendor tells me that they’ll be shipping in the third week of May.
Unfortunately the power supply has a defective mother board 24 pin cable so need to go pick up a new one tomorrow. Will share benchmarks when I get it up and running
wow from central computers? which location is it?
The Blackwell cards came from the Sunnyvale location.
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They got some of the 600W. No 300W yet.
Here is my RTX 6000 Pro and my first impressions:
Ordered from Scan in the UK. I originally ordered the Retail version, but it got massively delayed. So I called them, they told me support for both OEM and retail version is the same and the difference in price was for an extra cable and a slightly better packaging which I didn’t care for.
I am swapping out my RTX 4090 for the RTX PRO 6000. I only got it for the VRAM, would not have gotten it if it had 48GB or 64GB.
I watched the JayTwoCentz video on quality of cables and decided I should upgrade from the one provided in the MSI MEG AI1300P that I got, which is the older ATX 3.0 version and not the ATX 3.1 version with the upgraded 12V-2x6 cables. I went for the Seasonic 12V-2x6 cable and you can see how much better it is as the one I was using with the 4090 had recessed pins and the pins did not consistent depths. Seasonic one is blue.
And the before and afters.
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Getting the drivers to work in Windows was easy, I just loaded the Nvidia App and it changed the drivers to the compatible studio drivers. The gaming drivers did not work with it.
Getting it working on Fedora 42 was equally easy. I just tell akmod to use compile with the open source kernel modules as the closed source one is not supported for the professional blackwell cards. Not sure if that’s the same for the gamign ones. I followed the Fedora RPM Fusion documentation to get this done
sudo sh -c 'echo "%_with_kmod_nvidia_open 1" > /etc/rpm/macros.nvidia-kmod'
sudo akmods --kernels $(uname -r) --rebuild
# very important to wait for kernel modules to fully compile, so I use this command to make sure everything compiled before I rebooted
watch -n 2 "ps aux | grep kmod"
This is what the watch command can bring up. You have to wait until the only command issues is the ps one from watch
All my cuda projects worked, which is great. I followed instructions in RPM fusion to get CUDA working. With CUDA >= 12.8, GCC 14 is supported, you don’t need to go to 13 as the docs say. I usually have my CC and CXX variables set to clang so if you do that, you want to unset those variables too like I do when working with CUDA.
Some notes:
- I would not recommend downloading and using the 12.9 cuda toolkit for windows, it overrides the drivers and it stops Nvidia App managing them. I still have access to the 12.8 toolkit in Visual Studio too so don’t know why you would want to get 12.9 unless you really need the bleeding edge stuff.
- Ubuntu is far easier to install CUDA. I prefer Fedora, it’s more hassle, I manually download cuDNN and link it statically as it’s not in the CUDA fedora repos, it is what it is
- My posts are geared towards what I wanted to know about the GPU before purchasing, I hope this helps.
Some benchmarks. I don’t have any computation reasons to upgrade, I just needed the VRAM, so I didn’t bother benchmarking around ML/AI projects I work on, so I did some rudementaroy before and after for gaming.
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I was expecting 20-30% more, was not expecting some of these numbers. I will leave the professional benchmarking to the professionals, and I hope Wendel can do a review video on it.
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The really fun thing is that, I’m told, optimizations coming in 12.9+ are going to unlock even more perf. I kinda believe it because on the live stream just dumping windows for linux was good for +10% in the spotcheck/sanity tests I was doing.
I bet they lock that kind of uplift in across both platforms over the next couple months. Judging by git hub commits theres a lot of work being done to squeeze as much perf as possible out of Blackwell for the popular stuff.
Fun times.
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Got mine this afternoon and finally finished up my SFF build. (I’ve been trying to buy a 5090 FE since launch, and gave in and bought the Pro 6000 because I can put the extra VRAM to use)
The gaming drivers did not work with it.
The gaming drivers seemed to work fine for me, but I had them installed for use with an RTX A5000 I had in this machine previously.
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I have now gotten cuda 12.9 working, and able to compile my own kernel. I have created a handy guide here for those who have Fedora 42 and want to do the same Cuda 12.9 and Fedora 42 Guide