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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 leads on 4 of 5 shared benchmarks (4% in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme); the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB takes 1 (1% in 3DMark Speed Way). On llama3:70b, the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB generates 14.7 tokens/s (per DatabaseMart) against 10.0 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (per Mustafa.net), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 and the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB. Both released in 2020. MSRP range: $1,499 · $4,650. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

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*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

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB
vram gb 2448
vram type GDDR6X—
tdp w 350300
cuda cores 1049610752

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, esports.hwbot.org, 3DMark, HWBOT, 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.

BenchmarkNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090NVIDIA 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, esports.hwbot.org, 3DMark, StorageReview, HWBOT		 15,039 points12,855
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark, StorageReview		 5,075 points5,136 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 5,229 points—
3DMark Steel Nomad (DX12 Graphics Score) (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 5,112 points—
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: TopCPU.net, TechPowerUp, Notebookcheck, CpuTronic, 3DMark, StorageReview		 18,824 points17,769 points
3DMark Time Spy (Graphics Score) (higher is better)
Source: Notebookcheck		 —10,490 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better)
Source: TechPowerUp, StorageReview, Notebookcheck		 9,800 points9,467

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 3090

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NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB

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Quick answers

Which is faster, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 or the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 leads on 4 of 5 shared benchmarks (4% in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme); the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB takes 1 (1% in 3DMark Speed Way).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On llama3:70b, the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB generates 14.7 tokens/s (per DatabaseMart) against 10.0 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (per Mustafa.net), best community run on file for each.

What did the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 and the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB cost at launch?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 launched at a $1,499 MSRP and the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB at $4,650. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.

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