HP Quadro RTX 6000 24GB GDDR6 workstation

A 2018 workstation card with a 2025-sized memory buffer. Great for AI on a budget, rough for everything else.

The 24GB of VRAM is the star here. For AI and LLM work, that's a 90th percentile score in our database, which means this card can still hang with much newer hardware when it comes to fitting large models in memory. But raster performance lands at a mediocre 41st percentile, and ray tracing is even worse at 37th. The 1800MHz boost clock and Turing cores just can't keep up with Ada or Blackwell. Power draw is 295W, which is a lot for the performance you get, and thermals are a real weak spot at 7th percentile. This card runs hot and hungry.

Against something like the MSI Ventus RTX 5070 Ti, the Quadro gets smoked in raster and ray tracing, but the 5070 Ti only has 16GB of VRAM. That's the trade-off. The Gigabyte AERO RTX 5080 also has 16GB and will run circles around this card in everything except memory capacity. The ASUS TUF RTX 5090 with 32GB is the real upgrade path if you need both speed and memory, but you'll pay for it. The Quadro RTX 6000 only makes sense if 24GB is your hard requirement and you can't stretch to a 5090.

At $1,425 USD, this is a tough sell unless you specifically need 24GB of VRAM for AI work and can't afford a newer card. The value proposition is entirely about that memory. For workstation tasks, it's a 56.5 out of 100, which is fine but not exciting. For content creation, it's worse at 46.5. You're paying for VRAM and Quadro drivers, not raw speed.

The Quadro RTX 6000 is a weird beast in 2025. It's a workstation card from 2018 that still packs 24GB of GDDR6, which puts it in the 91st percentile for VRAM in our database. That's the headline. But the rest of the card is showing its age, especially the Turing architecture underneath. If you need a ton of memory for AI workloads and you're on a budget, this thing is interesting. If you want to game or do heavy ray tracing, keep walking.

If you're looking for a gaming card, this isn't it. Go get an RTX 4070 Ti or a used RTX 3080 instead. If you need ray tracing or content creation performance, the RTX 5080 is a much better fit. This card is for one specific buyer: someone who needs 24GB of VRAM for AI work and can't afford a newer workstation card.

Buy this only if you need 24GB of VRAM for AI or LLM work and you're on a strict budget. It's not a gaming card, it's not a ray tracing card, and it's not efficient. But for memory-hungry workstation tasks, it's still a legitimate option. Just know you're buying old tech with a big memory buffer.