NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is ahead of the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB on all 2 shared benchmarks on file, by 67% to 196%, including 196% in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme (28,009 vs 9,467). On qwen2.5:72b, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell generates 29.1 tokens/s (per DatabaseMart) against 14.5 for the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB (per DatabaseMart), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell. Released 2020 (NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB), 2025 (NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell). MSRP range: $4,650 · $8,499. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

NVIDIA · Ampere Pro

NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB

48 GB VRAM300W TDP$4,650 MSRP2020

Full NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Blackwell Pro

NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell

96 GB VRAM300W TDP$8,499 MSRP2025

Full NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 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 RTX A6000 48GB	NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
vram gb	48	96
tdp w	300	300
cuda cores	10752	20480

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, TechSpot, 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 RTX A6000 48GB	NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
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, StorageReview	12,855	—
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) Source: StorageReview	5,136 points	—
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	15,939 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: TechSpot, TopCPU.net, TechPowerUp, Notebookcheck, CpuTronic, StorageReview, 3DMark	17,769 points	51,776 points
3DMark Time Spy (Graphics Score) (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck	10,490 points	—
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better) Source: TechSpot, TechPowerUp, StorageReview	9,467	28,009 points
Blender Benchmark - Classroom (higher is better) Source: StorageReview	—	4,041 samples/min

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 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 →

NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell

qwen3:14b: 1743.8 tok/s (DatabaseMart)
deepseek-r1:32b: 829.0 tok/s (DatabaseMart)
Llama 3.1 8B FP8: 380.0 tok/s (Runpod)

All NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell AI benchmarks →

Quick answers

Which is faster, the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell?

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is ahead of the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB on all 2 shared benchmarks on file, by 67% to 196%, including 196% in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme (28,009 vs 9,467).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On qwen2.5:72b, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell generates 29.1 tokens/s (per DatabaseMart) against 14.5 for the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB (per DatabaseMart), best community run on file for each.

What did the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell cost at launch?

The NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB launched at a $4,650 MSRP and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell at $8,499. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.