Mystery NVIDIA T6000 card turns out to be pre-release Quadro RTX 6000

Unmarked NVIDIA T6000 graphics card identified as early Quadro RTX 6000

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A Reddit user has posted photos of an unusual NVIDIA graphics card marked “T6000,” a name that does not match any known high-end workstation product released by the company. NVIDIA’s official Turing-era lineup did not include a model with that branding.

Users in the thread suggested the board could be a preproduction version of the Quadro RTX 6000 . The owner said the part number does indeed appear to point to the Quadro RTX 6000, and later confirmed that the card reports itself as a stock Quadro RTX 6000 once installed in a system.

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The cooler design also lines up with NVIDIA’s Turing workstation cards. NVIDIA did, in fact, have two Quadro lines for the Turing series, one called the Quadro T-series and the other was the first RTX lineup for workstations. NVIDIA later dropped Quadro branding (which we find to be an unwise decision).

Quadro RTX 6000 Turing, Source: NVIDIA

NVIDIA used T400, T600, and T1000 names for some lower-end workstation products, but switched to Quadro RTX 4000, 5000, 6000, and 8000 for higher-tier Turing cards. Based on that, some users believe “T6000” may have been an earlier internal or pre-market name before NVIDIA finalized the Quadro RTX branding.

Source: Reddit