This is insane. What we've got here is a rare pricing oddity, where you can buy the entire computer system for less than the graphics card. Why is this a big deal?
Complete Dell system with 96GB NVIDIA GPU undercuts standalone card price
Well, it's a way to get your hands on that crazy expensive NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU for way cheaper. If you're in the market for this specific piece of hardware, you can now get it for thousands of dollars less than the standard retail price of just the part itself.
Specifications
- GPU: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition (96GB)
- CPU: Intel Core Ultra 5 235
- OS: Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS
- RAM: 8GB DDR5-5600
- Standalone GPU Price: $16,499.99 (discounted from $17,999.99)
This Dell Pro Max Tower T2 prebuilt workstation comes with the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition. Specifically, this Workstation Edition of the GPU has 96GB of memory and is designed for heavy professional use. The Dell pro tower is spec'd with an Intel Core Ultra 5 235 processor to handle that high-end GPU.
So here are the specs for this Workstation configuration. We've got 8GB of DDR5-5600 system memory and it's running Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS. These are the specs for the base system which contains that pricey GPU. So, this shows you that this cheap price isn't just for the GPU, it's the whole functional unit.
Now, this full workstation configuration is on sale for $12,331.80, after applying a 10% coupon. That's a huge discount from the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition. You can get that by itself from Micro Center for $16,499.99. It's discounted from the original price of $17,999.99, but it's still more expensive than the whole computer system.
How are you able to get these prices? Well, you can either use some promotional coupons or negotiate directly with the Dell sales people. We don't know the specific coupon that's being used for this particular order, but 10% discounts are available from email signup or through sales channels. This is how you skip all the crazy GPU standalone market prices.
It's just an insane thing to see in today's market. What an opportunity we've got here. If you need to get that 96GB RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, you can get the piece of hardware plus the full working system for a fraction of the price.
It's still out there. You've just got to go through all the coupon/negotiation stuff via Dell's direct sales channels.
8gb of ram with a 96gb gpu is wild. 🤔
Ubuntu 24.04 is the baseline but you need the proprietary driver stack for Blackwell to actually render anything useful. The kernel headers must match exactly or the module fails to compile during boot.
Is the 10 percent coupon stackable with the enterprise volume pricing for this specific tower configuration at micro center?
The coupon is applied at checkout on the direct Dell portal. You cannot combine it with the Micro Center shelf price since that is a third party retailer. You must buy the system directly from Dell to get the $12,331 deal.
Specs do not equal performance. I need to see the CUDA benchmark scores against the previous generation before I trust this price anomaly.
The Intel Core Ultra 5 235 is a bottleneck for this GPU in any compute heavy workload. You are paying for the card and getting a midrange processor.
I hope Dell does not force some bloatware telemetry on Ubuntu. That would ruin the whole point of buying this for professional work.
Just the CPU name alone tells me this is a liquid cooling disaster waiting to happen.
Still cheaper than buying the card alone. 💀