RTX PRO 5000 Server Edition and RTX PRO 4500 Max-Q: which NVIDIA RTX PRO editions exist

No RTX PRO 5000 Server Edition exists

As of November 2026 NVIDIA lists a Server Edition of two RTX PRO Blackwell cards only, the RTX PRO 6000 and the RTX PRO 4500, and a Max-Q version of one, the RTX PRO 6000. An NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Server Edition does not exist, and neither does an RTX PRO 4000 Server Edition, an RTX PRO 5000 Max-Q, an RTX PRO 4500 Max-Q or an RTX PRO 4000 Max-Q. An offer under one of these names describes a different card or rests on a mistake; ask which part number stands behind it.

NVIDIA's "RTX PRO in Desktops" page (8 September 2026), "CUDA GPU Compute Capability" page (16 October 2026), vGPU supported-GPU list (2 October 2026) and Data Center GPU Driver release notes 620.70.06 / 621.14 (4 November 2026), as read on 10 November 2026.

NVIDIA's CUDA page lists ten RTX PRO Blackwell cards, all with compute capability 12.0. Eight are the workstation cards of the desktop line-up: the RTX PRO 6000 as Workstation Edition and as Max-Q Workstation Edition, the RTX PRO 5500 Workstation Edition, the RTX PRO 5000 with 48 or 72 GB, the RTX PRO 4500 Workstation Edition, the RTX PRO 4000, the RTX PRO 4000 SFF Edition and the RTX PRO 2000. The other two are the Server Editions, data-centre cards that are not on the desktop page. One name may add to the confusion: NVIDIA's vGPU list calls the 72 GB card "NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell Workstation Edition 72 GB". A Server Edition to match that name is in none of NVIDIA's lists.

What the words Server Edition stand for

On the two cards that carry the name, Server Edition means a passive board: no fan, a heat sink that is cooled by the fans of the chassis, and a place among NVIDIA's data-centre products with the data-centre driver. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition shows the pattern. NVIDIA's product brief of 20 April 2026 describes a single-slot, full-height, full-length card with a bidirectional heat sink that takes air from either side, an ambient range of 10 °C to 45 °C and a board power of 165 W that can be set down to 100 W. The datasheet states no display output.

The workstation cards differ in each of these points. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell is actively cooled, has four DisplayPort 2.1b outputs and draws 300 W in two slots; it runs on the RTX Enterprise driver. So the search for an "RTX PRO 5000 Server Edition" is usually a search for something else: a passive card with about that much memory for a rack server, often with vGPU. The sections below start from that need.

What to order instead of an RTX PRO 5000 Server Edition

Three orders cover the need, depending on what counted in the RTX PRO 5000.

48 GB on a passive card. The L40S is a passive data-centre card with 48 GB of GDDR6 and 350 W. It belongs to the Ada generation, for which NVIDIA documents FP8 and no FP4 acceleration, it is on NVIDIA's vGPU list, and it is not in the MIG guide. Servers with it are on our page to buy an L40S server, and our comparison of 48 GB GPUs sets it beside the RTX PRO 5000.

Blackwell with more memory, passive. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition has 96 GB, a board power that can be configured up to 600 W, up to four MIG instances in NVIDIA's guide and vGPU from release 19.0. It is the card we recommend for continuous operation in a rack; the chassis are listed in our article on servers compatible with the RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition.

The RTX PRO 5000 itself, in a rack. The card is a workstation part with its own fan, so in a rack it belongs only in a chassis whose maker lists it for that model. Where that is given, it brings 48 or 72 GB at 300 W, three encoders and three decoders and, on the 48 GB version, MIG with two instances of 24 GB on Linux, from driver 575.57.08 and with the display mode set to compute. NVIDIA's vGPU list holds only the 72 GB version, from release 20.2. Our pages to buy an RTX PRO 5000 rack server and on the 8× RTX PRO 5000 server name the chassis; the card is on the page to buy the RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48 GB, and its two memory sizes are compared in RTX PRO 5000 48 GB vs 72 GB.

We supply the RTX PRO 4500 Server Edition, the RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition, the L40S and the L4 across the EU; send us the server model and the memory you need per card and we reply with a written quote within one business day.

Single-slot server cards in place of an RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell Server Edition

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell is a single-slot workstation card with 24 GB and 145 W, and it has a fan. People who search for a server version of it usually want one of two things: a single-slot card for a dense server, or a small card with low power.

The first is the RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition. It takes one slot like the RTX PRO 4000, is passive, has 32 GB instead of 24 GB at 165 W, and adds what the RTX PRO 4000 lacks in NVIDIA's lists: up to two MIG instances of 16 GB and vGPU from release 20.0. Its drivers start with R595. The card is described on our page to buy the RTX PRO 4500 Server Edition and in its specs; our existing comparison RTX PRO 4000 vs RTX PRO 4500 Server Edition and the overview of single-slot NVIDIA RTX cards put the one-slot boards side by side.

The second is the L4, a low-profile data-centre card with 24 GB at 72 W that is on NVIDIA's vGPU list. How it stands against the Blackwell card is the subject of L4 vs RTX PRO 4500 Server Edition. The RTX PRO 4000 itself remains a workstation card: buy the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell, specs.

RTX PRO 5000, 4500 and 4000 Max-Q do not exist either

Max-Q is the name of one card in this generation, the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition. NVIDIA's line-up page gives it 96 GB and 300 W in a dual-slot outline of 4.4 × 10.5 in, where the RTX PRO 6000 Workstation Edition has 600 W and measures 5.4 × 12.0 in. The Max-Q is thus the 96 GB card in the smaller of the two outlines, at half the board power of the Workstation Edition.

The smaller cards have these figures as standard. The RTX PRO 5000 has 300 W and 4.4 × 10.5 in over two slots, the same figures as the Max-Q. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Workstation Edition has the same outline at 200 W, and the RTX PRO 4000 is a single-slot card at 145 W. Two lower-power options do exist under other names: the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF Edition, a half-height card with 24 GB at 70 W, and the power setting of the RTX PRO 4500 Server Edition between 100 W and 165 W.

The workstation card with 32 GB is on our page to buy the RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell, with its figures in the 32 GB spec article, and the choice between its two editions in RTX PRO 4500 or RTX PRO 4500 Server Edition. The three editions of the 96 GB card are compared in RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q vs Workstation vs Server Edition. Like the RTX PRO 5000, the Max-Q is a workstation card, and in a rack server it belongs only in a chassis whose maker lists it.

Data-centre cards from our range, by memory

NVIDIA datasheet 5192801 (April 2026) and product brief PB-12790-001_02 for the RTX PRO 4500 Server Edition; memory and power of the L4, the L40S and the RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition from NVIDIA's datasheets and product brief, as read for our existing pages in September and October 2026; MIG User Guide (4 November 2026); vGPU supported-GPU list (2 October 2026).

Between 32 GB and 96 GB the only passive step in this list is the L40S, a card of the Ada generation. A passive Blackwell card with 48 or 72 GB would sit in that gap, and NVIDIA lists none, so in practice the decision falls between several RTX PRO 4500 Server Edition cards and fewer RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition cards. Single slot and 165 W let a chassis carry many cards with 32 GB each; 96 GB on one card is needed where one model does not fit 32 GB. By our sizing rule a 32 GB card has 25.7 GiB for model weights and KV cache and a 48 GB card 40.0 GiB: 0.9 times the memory the driver reports, less 3 GiB, with the reported memory scaled from the 95.6 GiB the driver shows on the 96 GB card, an assumption, so the driver on the delivered card decides.

For virtual machines, start from NVIDIA's lists. vGPU needs a card on the supported-GPU list: both Server Editions, the L40S, the L4 and, among the workstation cards discussed here, only the 72 GB RTX PRO 5000. MIG is listed for the RTX PRO 6000, the RTX PRO 5000 with 48 GB and an RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell without a named edition, while the Server Edition's own datasheet states two instances. Our article on MIG and vGPU on RTX PRO and Ada cards has the full table, and the step from 32 to 48 GB on workstation cards is in RTX PRO 4500 vs RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

What to send for a quote

We cannot quote "an RTX PRO 5000 Server Edition" as written; we can quote the card that meets the need behind it. Four details settle the card: the server maker and model, or the wish for a server built to order; the memory one model or one user session needs; whether the GPUs run on bare metal or are shared with vGPU or MIG, and on which hypervisor; and the number of cards. From that we name the card that exists and fits, and the written quote states price, lead time and warranty terms. Quantities and lead time are confirmed in writing with the quote.

We quote cards for system builders and IT teams in series quantities as well, as our page on NVIDIA RTX cards in volume describes, and complete servers are on our page for servers built to order. If you arrived here from a search for a card that does not exist, tell us what the server has to run and for how many users, and we answer with the configuration and a quote within one business day.

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