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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell

For running models locally, priced in Canada. At 128k context the first runs 9 models fully in memory, the second 39.

In short

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has more memory for models: 96 GB against 24 GB. At 128k context the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell runs 39 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 9; only the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell holds Qwen 3.8 Flash Next. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is about 1.9× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (estimated, median across models). In Canada the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 costs $2,800 at Amazon and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell $3,133 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 is $333 cheaper.

Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

$2,800

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NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell

$3,133

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
GPUGeForce RTX 3090RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
Memory24 GB GDDR6X96 GB GDDR7
Memory bus384-bit512-bit
Memory bandwidth936 GB/s1,792 GB/s
FP16 compute71 TFLOPS504 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power350 W600 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 5
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
Qwen 3.8 Flash Nextwon't run20tok/sUD-Q3_K_XL
Qwen 3.8 27Boffload29tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Boffload62tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.6 27Boffload30tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 31Boffload25tok/sQ8_0
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Bwon't run72tok/sUD-Q4_K_M
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't run90tok/sQ8_0
gpt-oss 120Bwon't run84tok/sMXFP4
Mistral Small 4 119Boffload80tok/sUD-Q5_K_M
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffload114tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 27Boffload30tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 26B-A4B63tok/sUD-Q4_K_M95tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.5 Airwon't run19tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffload114tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.7 Flashoffload54tok/sQ8_0
Devstral Small 2 24Boffload24tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't run104tok/sQ8_0
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffload160tok/sUD-Q6_K_XL
gpt-oss 20B62tok/sMXFP4118tok/sMXFP4
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffload155tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffload42tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 32Bwon't run16tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 12B38tok/sQ8_073tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B42tok/sQ8_080tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 3 27Boffload28tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffload24tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Bwon't run16tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't run12tok/sQ5_K_M
Ministral 3 14Boffload31tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 14Boffload30tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8Boffload40tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8Boffload40tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14Boffload26tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B66tok/sQ8_0126tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B25tok/sQ4_K_M41tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8Boffload36tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B48tok/sQ8_093tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B46tok/sQ8_089tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B25tok/sQ5_K_M47tok/sQ6_K
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon't runoffload
GLM 5.3 Flashwon't runoffload
MiniMax M2.7won't runoffload

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell?
Choose the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell?
At 128k context the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell runs 39 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 9; only the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell holds Qwen 3.8 Flash Next.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is about 1.9× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell?
In Canada the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 costs $2,800 at Amazon and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell $3,133 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 is $333 cheaper.

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