NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is ahead of the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB on all 4 shared benchmarks on file, by 35% to 221%, including 221% in 3DMark Port Royal (41,238 vs 12,855). On Llama 3.1 70B, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 generates 27.5 tokens/s (per DatabaseMart) against 14.6 for the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB (per OpenLLM Benchmarks), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 and the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB. Released 2025 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090), 2020 (NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB). MSRP range: $1,999 · $4,650. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

NVIDIA · Blackwell

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

32 GB VRAM575W TDP$1,999 MSRP2025

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Ampere Pro

NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB

48 GB VRAM300W TDP$4,650 MSRP2020

Full NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB benchmarks →

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Specs side-by-side

Spec	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090	NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB
vram gb	32	48
vram type	GDDR7	—
tdp w	575	300
cuda cores	21760	10752

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from Notebookcheck, StorageReview, technical.city, TechPowerUp, 3DMark, Overclocking.com, Tom's Hardware, TopCPU.net and CpuTronic; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

Benchmark	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090	NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck	—	25,280 points
3DMark Fire Strike (Graphics Score) (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck	—	27,511 points
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (higher is better) Source: StorageReview	—	22,185 points
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics (higher is better) Source: technical.city	—	27,511 points
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra (higher is better) Source: StorageReview	—	12,230 points
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better) Source: TechPowerUp, 3DMark, StorageReview	41,238 points	12,855
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) Source: Overclocking.com, 3DMark, StorageReview	15,488 points	5,136 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	11,906 points	—
3DMark Steel Nomad (4K) (higher is better) Source: Tom's Hardware	14,133 points	—
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: TechPowerUp, TopCPU.net, Notebookcheck, CpuTronic, 3DMark, StorageReview	39,365 pts	17,769 points
3DMark Time Spy (Graphics Score) (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck	—	10,490 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better) Source: TechPowerUp, StorageReview	—	9,467

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct: 5841.0 tok/s (Runpod)
Llama 3.1 8B FP8: 420.0 tok/s (Runpod)
gpt-oss:20b: 298.2 tok/s (Hardware Corner)

All NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 AI benchmarks →

NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB

deepseek-r1-distill-llama:8b: 1643.9 tok/s (DatabaseMart)
deepseek-r1-distill-llama:8b: 1385.8 tok/s (DatabaseMart)
llama3.1:8b: 1218.6 tok/s (DatabaseMart)

All NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB AI benchmarks →

Quick answers

Which is faster, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 or the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is ahead of the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB on all 4 shared benchmarks on file, by 35% to 221%, including 221% in 3DMark Port Royal (41,238 vs 12,855).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On Llama 3.1 70B, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 generates 27.5 tokens/s (per DatabaseMart) against 14.6 for the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB (per OpenLLM Benchmarks), best community run on file for each.

What did the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 and the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB cost at launch?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 launched at a $1,999 MSRP and the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB at $4,650. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.