NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB. Release years: 2020, 2025. MSRP range: $1,999 · $4,650. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Where to buy
Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.
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
Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). 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 | — | 25,280 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike (Graphics Score) | — | 27,511 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme | — | 22,185 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics | — | 27,511 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra | — | 12,230 points |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 45,808 points | 12,660 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 16,532 points | 5,136 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 11,906 points | — |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad (4K) | 14,133 points | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 46,229 points | 17,796 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy (Graphics Score) | — | 10,490 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | — | 10,113 points |
AI inference (tokens/sec)
Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
- Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct: 5841.0 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B FP8: 420.0 tok/s
- Llama 2 7B: 263.6 tok/s
NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB
- deepseek-r1-distill-llama:8b: 1643.9 tok/s
- deepseek-r1-distill-llama:8b: 1385.8 tok/s
- llama3.1:8b: 1218.6 tok/s
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