Mid-September news reports placed NVIDIA's Chinese market exclusive RTX PRO 6000D model in a dubious position. Insiders believed that this "Blackwell" architecture-based AI accelerator was banned by the nation's Cyberspace Administration (CAC), in favor of boosting the prospects of domestic equivalents. Team Green has gingerly navigated these choppy waters for a number of years; an encouraging stack of sanction-conforming products have been released during trying times. These variants often feature lesser specifications—for example, the aforementioned RTX PRO 6000D is rumored to be a spin-off of the familiar RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell card. Despite facing an uncertain future in China, a curious Geekbench browser entry shines a ray of hope for the latest workstation-grade "D"-affixed product.

Team Green's upcoming NVIDIA RTX 6000D Blackwell GPU—now missing a "PRO" designation—seems to sport 156 compute units (CUs)/SMs; translating to 19,968 CUDA cores. An "AIC CB502-NM" test system was running this 84 GB GDDR7-laden card in conjunction with an AMD EPYC 9654 CPU. In comparison, the unpasteurized RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell model harnesses a largely uncompromised GB202 chip. 24064 CUDA cores are on tap, alongside 96 GB GDDR7 of video memory. The weaker 6000D makes do with a reduced 2430 MHz clock frequency (versus its sibling's 2600+ MHz credentials). Expert analysis posits that the cut-down card makes use of a 448-bit bus interface, rather than the standard unit's 512-bit avenue. VideoCardz has kindly formulated a comparison table of NVIDIA's RTX 6000 "Blackwell" products. The latest addition managed to generate an OpenCL score of 390656 points in Geekbench's 6.5 gauntlet (for Linux AVX2). The evaluated AIC computer was operating on Rocky Linux 9.4 (Blue Onyx).