RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition - Driver Support

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I just received a PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition - Driver Support today. Unfortunately, I can’t get to a clean nvidia-smi result, it reports “No devices were found”

I tried to reproduce from a completely clean slate, and got to the same unfortunate result:

  1. Install Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
  2. Install Cuda 12.9 from nVidia’s website
  3. Install “cuda-drivers”, which installs nVidia 575.51.03-0ubuntu1
  4. Run nvidia-smi, still the same “No devices were found”

Here’s lspci -v

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 2bb1 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device 204b
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 277, IOMMU group 13
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at c000000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128G]
Memory at e000000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at f000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at f4000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

The card works as expected on Windows.

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I just happened to try and run the open driver, and now it works fine. What could be the difference?

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From Blackwell, only the open source kernel module can be used. Incidentally the GSP cannot be deactivated (for the same reason).

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@zebcom did you find the soltuion? I have 4 of those and no luck, i am getting cuda initialization error on everything. Pytorch do not see the GPUs.

Nvidia-smi sees them and i tried cuda 12.6 up to latest 12.9 and nothing.

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I have a 5080, it is @nicholaus.shupe who has a Pro 6000. I only explained that you need the open source kernel module with Blackwell, the closed source driver does not work with these GPUs. But it seems your problem is different? Do you use a graphical environment?

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Did you guys tried the server driver variant ? Because workstation GPUs need server driver to work properly. Like below :

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I can’t get the card to draw full power e.g. no matter the benchmark it will not draw more than ~250w. I have a 5090 and that works perfectly, maxing out, so I know the PSU is solid and MB slot is good. Can you give me your windows setup e.g. any settings you adjusted, specific drivers you installed. I am almost at the end of my tether trying to get this to work to its capacity. It is about 2/3 slower than the 5090 so somethings not right..

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Did you resolve this? I’m having the same issue, I can’t push it much past 300w and the card is in P1 mode, power bottlenecked. I’m PCIE4, using the adapter I had for my 4090 to provide 4 8pins to the 12 pin power.

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Hey, I thought I had updated the post! It ended up being my Motherboard and after replacing that it worked as it should. I spent a day over at Scan in the UK, Bolton and tested all my components and that’s how we got to the bottom of it. I think the GPU is super sensitive to the slightest power issues so assume my MB had some damage the other GPUs weren’t picking up. It’s a pretty penny to replace, cost me £900 but had no choice given the price of the GPU! Worth trying in another MB.