Nvidia's 96GB RTX PRO 6000 Now Costs $16,000 — 87% Above Launch, With Memory Shortage Named as the Cause
Tom's Hardware / Hacker News·high signal
Nvidia raised the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's storefront price to $16,000, up 20% from $13,250 in June and 87% above its March 2025 launch price of $8,565 (pre-orders opened below $8,000). Multiple outlets — Tom's Hardware, VideoCardz, TechPowerUp, ThinkComputers — attribute the hike to GDDR7 memory costs rather than manufacturing: the card carries 32 × 3GB GDDR7 ECC modules, so every per-module price increase is multiplied 32 times. This is the clearest single price signal yet that the memory shortage, not GPU silicon, is what's repricing local AI inference hardware.