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 RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell. Release years: 2020, 2025. MSRP range: $4,650 · $8,499. 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 · Blackwell Pro
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
96 GB VRAM300W TDP$8,499 MSRP2025
Full NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell benchmarks →
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Specs side-by-side
| Spec | NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB | NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 48 | 96 |
| tdp w | 300 | 300 |
| cuda cores | 10752 | 20480 |
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 RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 5,136 points | — |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | — | 16,080 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 17,796 points | 51,776 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy (Graphics Score) | 10,490 points | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 10,113 points | 28,009 points |
| Blender Benchmark - Classroom | — | 4,041 samples/min |
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 RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- qwen3:14b: 1743.8 tok/s
- deepseek-r1:32b: 829.0 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B FP8: 380.0 tok/s
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