NVIDIA · Ampere Pro
NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB
48 GB VRAM300W TDP$4,650 MSRP2020
Full NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB benchmarks →
NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090. All released in 2020. MSRP range: $4,650 · $1,499. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
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NVIDIA · Ampere
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
24 GB VRAM350W TDP$1,499 MSRP2020
Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 benchmarks →
*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 RTX A6000 48GB | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 48 | 24 |
| vram type | — | GDDR6X |
| tdp w | 300 | 350 |
| cuda cores | 10752 | 10496 |
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 RTX A6000 48GB | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 12,660 points | 15,190 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 5,136 points | 5,075 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | — | 5,340 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 17,796 points | 18,824 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy (Graphics Score) | 10,490 points | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 10,113 points | 9,800 points |
| Blender Cycles GPU (Classroom) | 22 | — |
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 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
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
- llama3.2:1b: 267.0 tok/s
- qwen3:35b-a3b: 135.7 tok/s
- qwen3.6-35b-a3b: 120.0 tok/s
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