The order went through on October 29.
Total: $13,395.42 for one workstation.
That was the cheap version.
NVIDIA's RTX PRO 6000 carries a $16,000 asking price, a Micro Center listing shows $16,499.99, and the DRAM shortage is still pushing up every card built on GDDR7.
The workaround, spotted by @0xdef1ant on X, is that Dell bundles that card inside a full Pro Max Tower T2 and prices the whole machine below the card alone.
List is $13,702.00, a 10 percent coupon takes off $1,370.20, estimated tax adds $1,063.62, and delivery lands around November 14.
Then the spec sheet catches up with the deal.
96GB of VRAM is real and serious.
The rest is a single 8GB DDR5 stick, a 65W Core Ultra 5 235 with 14 cores, and no productivity software in the bundle.
You are paying workstation money for one excellent part and a case built around it.
So a small AI team hits the same fork.
Wire $13,395 today for one fixed 96GB pool that arrives in two weeks, or point the same budget at capacity that switches on immediately.
At $0.15/hr for an RTX 3090, that $13,395 covers roughly 89,300 GPU hours.
Test a model, kill the run, start another one, own nothing.
Buy Now Pay Later makes it zero upfront with payment after one month.
How long did your last hardware purchase take to earn back its invoice?
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