NVIDIA GPU part numbers: what the 900- codes show and what to state in a quote request

NVIDIA GPU part numbers and what NVIDIA publishes about them

An NVIDIA GPU part number, the 900- code, has four segments, and NVIDIA itself prints it as a pattern with placeholders, for example 900-2G153-xx00-xxx. NVIDIA's public documents give such a pattern for two of the cards we supply, the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition and the RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition, and NVIDIA publishes no key that explains the segments. A quote request therefore names the card in words: the full product name, the edition, the memory size, the quantity and the system it goes into.

This article prints only what NVIDIA documents, as read on 12 November 2026. It decodes no field that NVIDIA leaves undefined, and it gives no complete part number as the number of a card we supply. The complete codes found in public documents are those of individual server makers' options.

The 900- patterns in NVIDIA's product briefs

NVIDIA product briefs as named in the last column; patterns from the row "Product SKU" (Table 2-1 of the brief for the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition, Table 1 of the brief for the RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition); read on 12 November 2026.

Both patterns stand in the row "Product SKU" of the brief's specification table, after the letters "NVPN:". No brief spells NVPN out. NVIDIA's A40 brief speaks of a "900-level part number".

Not every part number in NVIDIA's briefs starts with 900. For the L4, NVIDIA's product brief of March 2023 prints "PG193 SKU 200" and "NVPN: 699-2G193-0200-xxx". For the L40S, the links on NVIDIA's product page did not lead to the brief on that day, so no pattern is given here. For the H200 NVL this article prints no pattern either; in an enquiry both cards are named in words.

The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is described on our product page; the pages for the RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition are linked further down.

What the patterns show and where NVIDIA's documents stop

Three things can be read from NVIDIA's tables without adding anything.

The board ID recurs in the code, without its first letter. "PG153 SKU 210" stands beside 900-2G153 and "PG147 SKU 210" beside 900-2G147; in the L4 brief "PG193 SKU 200" stands beside 699-2G193. NVIDIA states no rule for this. It is what the tables show.

The placeholders mark what NVIDIA leaves open. It writes "xx" for the first two characters of the third segment and "xxx" for the whole last segment, and it does not say what varies there.

One position has a documented meaning, in one brief, for a card outside our range. NVIDIA's A40 product brief (PB-09976-001_v08, April 2022) lists "900-2G133-XXXX-1XX A40 GPUs without CEC1712 (secondary root of trust)" and "900-2G133-XXXX-0XX A40 GPUs with CEC1712 (secondary root of trust)". There the first character of the last segment separates two hardware variants of one card. The briefs of the two cards in the table contain no sentence of this kind.

That is where the documentation ends. No NVIDIA document read for this article explains the segments of a 900-code. The briefs of 2022 and 2023 print "NVPN: 699-…" in the Product SKU row and those of 2025 and 2026 "NVPN: 900-…". A Redfish example in NVIDIA's serial-number guide shows a "Board FRU Assembly" with a 699-number next to a "GPU Board Assembly" with a 900-number, and the difference is defined nowhere. NVIDIA's documents do not say that 900 marks a finished product or 699 a bare board, that the last segment is a revision, or that any suffix stands for bulk or retail packaging. A decoder built on such readings has no NVIDIA source, and this article offers none.

A different kind of identifier appears in NVIDIA's quick start guide for the RTX PRO Blackwell workstation cards (file of 17 March 2026): "Compliance Models: PG144C, PG147C, PG153B". These are regulatory model numbers for the eight cards the guide covers. The guide does not map them to cards, so they do not identify an edition.

Complete 900-codes in server makers' option lists

Complete 900-codes do exist in public documents, in the option lists of server makers. Lenovo's "ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile GPU Summary" (updated 12 September 2026) is a public example. Beside Lenovo's own option numbers and feature codes it prints complete 900-codes for its GPU options, in a column headed "NVIDIA part number" or "Vendor part number".

Such a code identifies the maker's option part. It is not a general code of the card, and Lenovo's own table shows why.

• In nearly every row the third segment begins with "27", exactly where NVIDIA's pattern leaves two characters open. NVIDIA does not say what these characters stand for, so nothing shows that a card supplied outside a Lenovo server carries the same ones.
• For the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition, Lenovo lists one NVIDIA part number under two feature codes, one of them named "Slot Capped at 450W". The code therefore does not show the power setting of the slot.
• Editions lie one character apart. In Lenovo's list the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q option has a code beginning 900-5G153 and the Server Edition option one beginning 900-2G153; the RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Workstation Edition begins 900-5G147 and its Server Edition 900-2G147. This is an observation in one maker's table. NVIDIA states no rule for these characters, and we derive none.

Option lists of other server makers were not examined for 900-codes. Anyone who copies a code from such a list into an enquiry should name the list and add the product name in words. Which cards the workstation makers list for their own machines is covered in RTX PRO cards in Dell, HP and Lenovo workstations.

We supply the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell in its three editions and both RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell cards; name the server or workstation model the cards are for and the written quote states the matching edition.

Workstation cards without a part number in the datasheet

For workstation cards the datasheet does not help. The eleven NVIDIA datasheets read for this article print no part number: those of the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition (5349469), the RTX PRO 5500 (5513311), the RTX PRO 5000 (5349550), the RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Workstation Edition (5108623), the RTX PRO 4000 (5323450) and its SFF Edition (4016700), the RTX PRO 2000 (5322351), the RTX 4500 Ada (2895216), the RTX 2000E Ada (4328932), the RTX A1000 (April 2024) and the RTX A400 (3279761). The quick start guide for the Blackwell cards prints none either. The datasheets of the RTX 5000 Ada, the RTX 2000 Ada and the RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q were not read on that day, so nothing is said about them here.

Without a published number the name has to carry the identification, and three names need a second detail. RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell stands for the Workstation Edition, the Max-Q Workstation Edition and the Server Edition, compared in our article on the RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q, Workstation and Server Edition. RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell stands for an actively cooled Workstation Edition with 200 W and a passive Server Edition with 165 W, set side by side in RTX PRO 4500 or RTX PRO 4500 Server Edition. Each has its own pages: buy the RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell with the RTX PRO 4500 32 GB specs, and buy the RTX PRO 4500 Server Edition with the Server Edition specs. RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell exists with 48 GB and with 72 GB under one datasheet, as RTX PRO 5000 48 GB vs 72 GB shows; the page to buy the RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48 GB covers the smaller one.

Further pairs, such as the RTX PRO 4000 and its SFF Edition or the RTX 2000 Ada and the RTX 2000E Ada, are listed on our page about NVIDIA RTX cards in volume. NVIDIA's documents say nothing about bulk or retail packaging either. If the packaging matters to you, state it in words and have it confirmed on the quote.

Reading product name and part number on a delivered card

NVIDIA documents the two ways to read a part number in one place, the A40 brief: "Identification of the two variants of A40 boards (with or without CEC1712) can be done using the 900-level part number on the back of the GPU or running the nvidia-smi -q command." For the cards we supply, no NVIDIA document read for this article says where on the card the part number is printed. For the serial number NVIDIA is explicit: its guide "How to Locate the Serial Number of an NVIDIA GPU" (v03, October 2023) says it "should be readable from the rear plate near the PCI bracket" and that the sticker's location may vary.

The software route is described in NVIDIA's nvidia-smi manual. nvidia-smi -q displays the GPU information, -i limits it to one GPU, -x produces XML and -f writes the output to a file. Under "GPU ATTRIBUTES" the manual documents these fields, among others.

NVIDIA, nvidia-smi manual on docs.nvidia.com (no version or date on the page), read on 12 November 2026.

The manual gives no example value for the part-number fields and does not say that "Board Part Number" shows the 900-code; only the A40 brief connects the 900-level part number with nvidia-smi -q. We therefore print no sample output. For scripts the manual points to nvidia-smi --help-query-gpu, which lists the property names.

The product briefs add an identifier that needs no label. The L4 brief says the card "is uniquely identified by its complete four-part ID", and the briefs of the two cards in the table above each print a PCI device ID and sub-system ID: 0x2BB5 and 0x204E for the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition, 0x2C3A and 0x21F4 for the RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition.

On delivery, compare the name under "Product Name" with the name on the quote, and the part number on the label with the quote and the delivery note where the seller printed one. How serial numbers fit into the vetting of a seller is covered in our GPU supplier checklist.

What to state in a quote request so that the right edition arrives

An enquiry that states five things can be quoted without a second round.

1. Full product name as NVIDIA writes it, for example "NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition".
2. Edition, where the name has several: Workstation Edition, Max-Q, Server Edition or SFF Edition.
3. Memory size: 48 GB or 72 GB for the RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell; for several other cards the size rules out a laptop GPU of the same name.
4. Quantity: tell us how many you need.
5. Target system: maker and model of the workstation or server, or the note that the system is to be built to order.

The target system decides more than the name does. As Lenovo's list shows, one part number can cover two power settings of the same card. A part number from a server maker's option list is welcome as a sixth line, together with the name of the list. Add the delivery address as well, because the price depends on the quantity, the delivery address and the date of the order.

We supply NVIDIA professional GPUs across the EU; send us these five details, through the form or by e-mail to request@eurokommerz.at, and we reply with a written quote within one business day.

On the quote, check the same points in reverse. It should repeat the full name, the edition and the memory size and state the quantity; where the seller prints a part number, it is one you can compare with the delivery note and the label. Our quotes state price, lead time and warranty terms in writing. How to ask for a price is described in NVIDIA GPU price list for Europe, the supply routes for resellers in NVIDIA GPUs for resellers in Europe, and what a server enquiry needs beyond the cards in what to specify when buying an AI server.

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