Calculate the TPS of the RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell on local AI models

NVIDIA 16 GB GDDR7 288 GB/s August 2025

Every model in our catalogue assessed against this card at the context length and minimum quality you choose. Speed is an estimate for a single request, calculated from this card's memory bandwidth and the size of each model once compressed.

Calculated for this card

455 models it can run

721 models in our catalogue altogether

Largest model it holds

Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B

31.6B · Q3_K_M · 57.9 tok/s

Fastest model

Gemma 3 QAT 1B

122 tok/s · 1B

Which AI models can run on a RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell?

Set the inputs, read the answer

More context means more memory for the conversation cache. Speed is for a fresh conversation and does not change with this setting.

Hides models that would only fit by being compressed below this point.

455 models match

Calculating
Quantisation Fit
122 tok/s

104–146

Gemma 3 1B 1B Mar 2025 1.8 GB 33k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
122 tok/s

104–146

Gemma 3 QAT 1B 1B Apr 2025 1.8 GB 33k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
122 tok/s

73–195 · low confidence

HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B Nov 2023 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
122 tok/s

73–195 · low confidence

LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B Dec 2024 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
122 tok/s

73–195 · low confidence

OLMo-1B 1B Feb 2024 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
122 tok/s

73–195 · low confidence

Pythia-1b 1B Apr 2023 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
113 tok/s

68–181 · low confidence

OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B May 2024 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
111 tok/s

67–177 · low confidence

DeciCoder-1B 1.1B Aug 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
111 tok/s

67–177 · low confidence

SantaCoder 1.1B Jan 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
111 tok/s

67–177 · low confidence

TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B Oct 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
111 tok/s

67–177 · low confidence

TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B Oct 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
102 tok/s

61–163 · low confidence

EXAONE 4.0 (1.2B) 1.2B Jul 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
102 tok/s

61–163 · low confidence

LFM2-1.2B 1.2B Jul 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
102 tok/s

61–163 · low confidence

MinerU2.5 1.2B Sep 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
102 tok/s

61–163 · low confidence

Pleias 1.0 1.2B 1.2B Dec 2024 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
102 tok/s

61–163 · low confidence

Pleias-RAG-1B 1.2B Apr 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
99.2 tok/s

84–119

Llama 3.2 1B 1.2B Sep 2024 2.2 GB 131k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
97.8 tok/s

59–156 · low confidence

MiniCPM-1.2B 1.2B Jun 2024 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
93.8 tok/s

56–150 · low confidence

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B 1.3B Jan 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
93.8 tok/s

56–150 · low confidence

DeepSeek-VL-1.3B 1.3B Mar 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
93.8 tok/s

56–150 · low confidence

DigiRL 1.3B Jun 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
93.8 tok/s

56–150 · low confidence

GLA Transformer 1.3B 1.3B Aug 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
93.8 tok/s

56–150 · low confidence

Janus 1.3B 1.3B Oct 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
93.8 tok/s

56–150 · low confidence

Kosmos-2.5 1.3B Aug 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
93.8 tok/s

56–150 · low confidence

Otter 1.3B May 2023 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable

Speeds are estimates for a single request — one conversation at a time — calculated from memory bandwidth, model size and quantisation. Real throughput varies with the inference runtime and its version. Figures published by hardware vendors measure many simultaneous requests and are much higher.

On record

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell full specification

Everything on record for this board, ordered by how much it bears on running a language model rather than by how a spec sheet would list it. Memory comes first because it decides the outcome; the rest is context.

Memory

The two specifications that decide what this card can run and how quickly. Capacity sets which models fit; bandwidth sets how many tokens per second they produce once they do.

Memory size
16 GB
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
Memory type
GDDR7
Memory bus width
128 bit
Memory clock
1.13 GHz

The chip

Which processor is on the board and how it was manufactured. A smaller process size generally means more performance for the same power.

Graphics processor
GB206
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Generation
Blackwell PRO W(x000)
Foundry
TSMC
Process size
5 nm
Transistors
21.9 billion
Transistor density
121,000 K/mm²
Die size
181 mm²
Released
11 August 2025

Clock speeds

How fast the processor runs. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: generating text is limited by memory bandwidth, so a higher clock barely moves the result.

Base clock
982 MHz
Boost clock
1.96 GHz

Processing units

What the chip contains. These drive graphics performance and matter mainly for processing a long prompt rather than for producing the answer.

Shading units
4,352
Texture mapping units
136
Render output units
64
Streaming multiprocessors
34
Tensor cores
136
Ray tracing cores
34
L1 cache
128 KB
L2 cache
32 MB

Theoretical performance

Peak arithmetic rates published for the board. These are ceilings that no real workload reaches, and generating text reaches a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory rather than arithmetic.

Half precision (FP16)
17 TFLOPS
Single precision (FP32)
17 TFLOPS
Double precision (FP64)
266.2 GFLOPS
Pixel rate
125 GPixel/s
Texture rate
266 GTexel/s

The board

What it takes to physically install and power the card — the practical constraints that decide whether it fits the machine you already own.

Power draw (TDP)
70 W
Suggested power supply
250 W
Power connectors
None
Bus interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Slot width
Dual-slot
Dimensions
167 mm × 20 mm
Display outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.1b

Software support

Which graphics and compute interfaces the card supports. CUDA compute capability is the one that bears on inference: below 7.0 there are no tensor cores, and modern inference software falls back to slower code paths.

CUDA compute capability
12.0
DirectX
12.2
OpenGL
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
Shader model
6.8

Listings

Where to buy a RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell

No vendor is currently listing this card. Listings come from vendors who publish them here directly — browse the vendor directory to see who is selling what.

What the numbers mean

Capacity and bandwidth

Memory

16 GB

Bandwidth

288 GB/s

Largest model

Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell carries 16 GB of GDDR7. That reaches comfortably into small and mid-sized models, though the largest stay out of reach without splitting them. Driver overhead leaves roughly 14.4 GB.

Memory bandwidth reaches 288 GB/s across a bus of 128 bits. Bandwidth is this card's real constraint. Every token requires reading the entire model out of memory, so a large model will feel slow here even when it fits.

That comes from a memory clock of 1.13 GHz. It is why core counts predict generation speed so poorly.

The practical ceiling is Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B, 31.6B, compressed to Q3_K_M and generating around 57.9 tokens per second.

The chip and how it was built

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell is built on the graphics processor GB206, using the architecture Blackwell 2.0 from NVIDIA, as part of the generation Blackwell PRO W(x000).

The chip is manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 5 nm, with a die measuring 181 mm², holding 21.9 billion transistors. A smaller process generally means more performance for the same power, though for language models it matters far less than the memory subsystem.

It was released in August 2025, roughly 1.0912413569242 years ago. Inference software support tends to follow hardware by a year or two, so a card of this age generally has mature, well-optimised code paths available to it.

Compute throughput, and why it matters less than it looks

FP16

17 TFLOPS

FP64

266.2 GFLOPS

Tensor cores

136

On paper RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell reaches 17 TFLOPS at half precision, and 17 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak figures no real workload sustains, and generating text reaches only a small fraction of them — decoding is limited by memory rather than arithmetic, which is why a card can look enormously powerful here and still produce tokens at an ordinary rate.

Double-precision throughput reaches 266.2 GFLOPS. It has no bearing on running a language model — no inference runtime uses it — but it separates datacentre parts from consumer ones, since the latter deliberately restrict it.

The card carries 136 tensor cores across 34 streaming multiprocessors. These accelerate the matrix arithmetic at the heart of a transformer, and they are what make prompt processing — reading a long document before answering — dramatically faster than it would otherwise be.

Clocks run from a base of 982 MHz to a boost of 1.96 GHz. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: raising the clock speeds up the arithmetic, and the arithmetic is not what generation is waiting on.

Cache and processing units

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell has an L1 cache of 128 KB, backed by an L2 cache of 32 MB. Cache absorbs a share of the memory traffic that would otherwise hit the main bus, which is the one place on this page where a number other than bandwidth quietly affects generation speed — a large L2 lets more of the working set stay close to the cores.

There are 4,352 shading units, 136 texture mapping units, and 64 render output units. These drive graphics workloads and contribute to prompt processing, but they sit idle for much of the time a model spends generating a reply.

Power, size and installation

Power draw

70 W

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell is rated at 70 W, and the suggested system power supply is 250 W. Running a language model keeps a card busy in bursts rather than continuously — it draws hard while generating and idles between requests — so sustained draw over a working day is usually well below the rated figure.

The board occupies dual-slot, measuring 167 mm long. Worth checking against the case and power supply already in the machine, since the largest cards need considerably more of both than a typical desktop provides.

It connects over PCIe 5.0 x8. The interface governs how quickly a model is loaded from disk into the card, not how fast it runs once there, so a narrower link costs a few seconds at startup and nothing thereafter.

The extremes

The largest AI models that run on a RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell

The biggest open-weight models that fit on this card, newest first. Each is shown at the best compression the card can hold.

  1. 01 Qwen3.8-27B 27.8B · Q3_K_M · Aug 2026 11.9 tok/s
  2. 02 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B · Q3_K_M · Aug 2026 61.0 tok/s
  3. 03 North Mini Code 30B · Q3_K_M · Jun 2026 61.0 tok/s
  4. 04 Nemotron 3 Omni 30B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2026 61.0 tok/s
  5. 05 Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B 31.6B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2025 57.9 tok/s
  6. 06 Nomos 1 30B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2025 61.0 tok/s
  7. 07 Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B 30B · Q3_K_M · Oct 2025 61.0 tok/s
  8. 08 Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B 30B · Q3_K_M · Jul 2025 61.0 tok/s
  9. 09 ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B 28B · Q3_K_M · Jun 2025 65.3 tok/s
  10. 10 Qwen3-30B-A3B 30B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2025 61.0 tok/s

The fastest AI models on a RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell

Where this card produces tokens quickest. Smaller models dominate here, because generating each token means reading the whole model out of memory once.

  1. 01 Gemma 3 QAT 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 122 tok/s
  2. 02 Gemma 3 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 122 tok/s
  3. 03 LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 122 tok/s
  4. 04 OLMo-1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 122 tok/s
  5. 05 HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 122 tok/s
  6. 06 Pythia-1b 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 122 tok/s
  7. 07 OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 113 tok/s
  8. 08 TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 111 tok/s
  9. 09 TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 111 tok/s
  10. 10 DeciCoder-1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 111 tok/s

Step by step

How to work out the tokens per second of a RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell

You do not have to calculate anything by hand — the gputps.com calculator on this page has already worked it out for every model this card can hold. Reading off the answer takes six steps.

  1. 01

    Start with the model, not the specification

    The table lists 455 models this card runs. Search narrows the list by name or by size.

  2. 02

    Match the context to your work

    Drag the slider to the conversation length you plan to work at. The cache grows with the conversation, and against a card holding 16 GB it is often what pushes a large model over the edge.

  3. 03

    Pin the comparison to one quality level

    By default the table picks the least-compressed copy that fits. Setting a floor removes models that only qualify through heavy compression.

  4. 04

    Look at the range, not just the number

    Speeds come with error bars for a reason. The best case here is 122 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B. The same card and model vary by thirty to fifty per cent between inference runtimes.

  5. 05

    Read the fit verdict last

    Tight means it works today; comfortable means it still works when the conversation grows. Compare what each model needs against an available 16 GB.

  6. 06

    Open the model to compare cards

    Following a model through to its own page lists all the hardware that can run it, so you can see how it compares against RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell.

Answers

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell — common questions

01

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— what bus interface does it use?

It uses PCIe 5.0 x8. This governs how fast a model is loaded onto the card rather than how fast it runs once loaded, so it costs a few seconds at startup and nothing during generation.

02

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— is it good for running local AI models?

Its memory covers small and mid-sized models, though the largest are out of reach though its bandwidth means generation will feel slow on larger models. In total it runs 455 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.

03

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— can it run a model that does not fit in its memory?

Only partly. Layers beyond the card's 16 GB drags the whole thing down, and none of the figures on this page assume it.

04

Would two RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell cards be twice as fast?

Capacity adds, throughput does not. Two of them give you 32 GB to work with rather than twice the tokens per second — every figure here is for a single card.

05

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— which AI models can it run?

455 of the 721 open-weight language models we track fit on this card and can be run locally. The table on this page lists every one, with the memory it needs, the quantisation it runs at and an estimated generation speed.

06

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— what is the largest AI model it can run?

The largest model in our catalogue that fits is Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B at 31.6B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 57.9 tokens per second and needs about 14.4 GB of the card's memory.

07

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— how many tokens per second does it produce?

It depends on the model. The fastest model we track here is Gemma 3 QAT 1B at about 122 tokens per second, while larger models run proportionally slower because each token requires reading the whole model out of memory once. Speeds are estimates for a single conversation at a time.

08

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— can it run 7B models?

Yes. For example it runs Gemma 4 E4B at Q8_0, using about 9.8 GB of memory and generating around 27.1 tokens per second.

09

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— can it run 13B models?

Yes. For example it runs DeepSeekMoE-16B at Q6_K, using about 13.7 GB of memory and generating around 61.5 tokens per second.

10

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— can it run 30B models?

Yes. For example it runs ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B at Q3_K_M, using about 12.9 GB of memory and generating around 65.3 tokens per second.

11

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— how much memory does it have?

This card has 16 GB of GDDR7. Around a tenth is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 14.4 GB available for a model and its conversation.

12

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— what is its memory bandwidth?

Memory bandwidth reaches 288 GB/s across a bus of 128 bits. This is the single best predictor of how fast it generates text, because producing each token means reading the entire model out of memory once.

13

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— what type of memory does it use?

It uses GDDR7 clocked at 1.13 GHz. HBM types are found on datacentre accelerators and carry far more bandwidth than the GDDR used on desktop cards, which is why they generate tokens considerably faster at the same capacity.

14

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— who makes it?

This is a product of NVIDIA, with the chip manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 5 nm.

15

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— when was it released?

It was released in August 2025.

16

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— how much power does it use?

Rated board power is 70 W, and the suggested system power supply is 250 W. Generating text draws hard in bursts and idles between requests, so average consumption over a working session is normally well below the rated figure.

17

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— how much cache does it have?

The L1 cache is 128 KB, and the L2 cache is 32 MB. Cache absorbs part of the memory traffic that would otherwise reach the main bus, so a larger L2 gives a modest lift to generation speed beyond what bandwidth alone predicts.

18

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— what are its TFLOPS?

It is rated at 17 TFLOPS at half precision and 17 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak arithmetic ceilings rather than achievable rates, and text generation reaches only a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory bandwidth instead.

19

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— how many tensor cores does it have?

It has 136 tensor cores across 34 streaming multiprocessors. They accelerate the matrix arithmetic a transformer is built from, which mainly speeds up processing a long prompt rather than producing the reply.

20

RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell— does it support CUDA?

Yes. It reports CUDA compute capability 12.0. Capability 7.0 and above has tensor cores, which modern inference software uses; below that it falls back to slower code paths for quantised models.

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