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NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB — Benchmarks & Specs

48 GB VRAM300W TDP$4,650 MSRP2020

The NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB is a graphics card from the Ampere Pro family released in 2020 from NVIDIA. Key on-paper specs include 48 GB of GDDR VRAM, 300W TDP. It launched with a $4,650 MSRP, though street prices typically diverge meaningfully from launch pricing — see the linked product cards below for current Amazon listings. Data on this page draws on 10 synthetic benchmark results, 10 community AI inference reports, aggregated from public benchmark databases (TechPowerUp, PassMark, Geekbench, Cinebench) and the LocalLLaMA community. Read this page when shopping the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB, comparing it against other graphics cards in your build, or sizing it for a specific workload (gaming at 1080p/1440p/4K, productivity benchmarks, or local LLM inference).

Synthetic Benchmarks

Higher is better. Bars are scaled within each benchmark family (multi-thread, single-thread, etc.) so you can compare like-with-like at a glance.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics via Technical.City
27,511 points
3DMark Fire Strike (Graphics Score) via Notebookcheck
27,511 points
3DMark Fire Strike via Notebookcheck
25,280 points
PassMark G3D Mark via PassMark
24,800
PassMark G3D Mark via PassMark Software
22,767 points
PassMark G3D Mark via PassMark PerformanceTest
22,657 points
3DMark Time Spy via CpuTronic
18,152 points
3DMark Time Spy via TopCPU.net
17,742 points
3DMark Time Spy via TechPowerUp
17,140
3DMark Port Royal via TechPowerUp
13,050

AI Inference Performance

Tokens per second under each model + quantization. Higher = faster generation. Bars compare runs across the same model.

deepseek-r1-distill-llama:8b FP16 via DatabaseMart
1385.8 tok/s
llama3.1:8b FP16 via DatabaseMart
1218.6 tok/s
qwen2.5:14b FP16 via DatabaseMart
695.5 tok/s
deepseek-r1-distill-qwen:14b FP16 via DatabaseMart
566.1 tok/s
llama2:7b q4_0 via llama.cpp GitHub Discussion #15013
144.9 tok/s
llama3:8b q4_K_M via GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inference (GitHub, XiongjieDai)
102.2 tok/s
llama3:8b q4_K_M via OpenLLM Benchmarks
102.2 tok/s
llama2:13b via DatabaseMart
63.6 tok/s
phi4:14b via DatabaseMart
52.6 tok/s
Mixtral 8x7B Q4_K_M via llama.cpp GitHub
52.0 tok/s

Full Specifications

tdp w300
vram gb48
cuda cores10752
memory typeGDDR6

NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB — Frequently Asked Questions

What is the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB best used for?
NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB is positioned as a 48 GB VRAM Ampere Pro-family graphics card. Use it for high-end 4K gaming and local LLM inference. See the synthetic + AI benchmark tables below for measured performance.
When was the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB released, and what was its launch MSRP?
NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB launched in 2020 at a $4,650 MSRP. Street prices diverge from launch pricing over a product's lifetime — check the linked Amazon listings on this page for current availability.
Where do the benchmark numbers on this page come from?
Synthetic benchmarks are scraped from public databases (TechPowerUp, PassMark, Geekbench Browser, Cinebench leaderboards). AI inference numbers come from the LocalLLaMA community (Reddit threads, llama.cpp / Ollama discussion logs, and Phoronix when available). Every benchmark row carries an inline source citation — click through to verify the original number.
Can the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB run local LLMs?
Yes — NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB has 10 AI inference benchmarks on file (see the AI Inference Performance section above for model + tokens-per-second numbers). With 48 GB VRAM, it fits the popular 32B-parameter open-weight models at Q4 quantization comfortably.
Where can I buy the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB?
Active Amazon listings aren't on file for this exact SKU yet. See the linked benchmark sources and the Compare tool for adjacent parts that may be in stock — and check the /benchmarks index for the latest curated picks in this category.

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