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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB

For running models locally, priced in Canada. At 128k context the first runs 31 models fully in memory, the second 68.

In short

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB has more memory for models: 72 GB against 24 GB. At 128k context the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB runs 68 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 31; only the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB holds Qwen 3.8 27B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB is about 1.3× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (estimated, median across models). In Canada the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 costs $3,300 at eBay and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB $13,470 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is $10,170 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

$3,300

eBay

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NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB

$13,470

Amazon

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB
GPUGeForce RTX 4090RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB
Memory24 GB GDDR6X72 GB GDDR7
Memory bus384-bit384-bit
Memory bandwidth1,008 GB/s1,344 GB/s
FP16 compute165 TFLOPS73.69 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power450 W300 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 4090NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB
Qwen 3.8 27Boffload22tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Boffload63tok/sQ3_K_M
Qwen 3.6 27Boffload22tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 31Boffload19tok/sQ8_0
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Bwon't run69tok/sUD-Q3_K_M
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't run77tok/sQ6_K
gpt-oss 120Bwon't run63tok/sMXFP4
Mistral Small 4 119Boffload69tok/sMXFP4
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffload86tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 27Boffload22tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 26B-A4B64tok/sQ5_K_M71tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.5 Airwon't run16tok/sQ2_K
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffload86tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.7 Flashoffload40tok/sQ8_0
Devstral Small 2 24Boffload18tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't run88tok/sQ6_K
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffload120tok/sUD-Q6_K_XL
gpt-oss 20B66tok/sMXFP489tok/sMXFP4
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffload117tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffload31tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 32Bwon't run12tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 12B41tok/sQ8_055tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B45tok/sQ8_060tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 3 27Boffload21tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffload18tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Bwon't run12tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 14Boffload23tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 14Boffload22tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8Boffload30tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8Boffload30tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14Boffload20tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B71tok/sQ8_094tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B27tok/sQ4_K_M31tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8Boffload27tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B52tok/sQ8_070tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B50tok/sQ8_067tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B27tok/sQ5_K_M35tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B292tok/sQ8_0389tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B256tok/sQ8_0341tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B204tok/sQ5_K_M272tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B111tok/sQ8_0147tok/sQ8_0
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking82tok/sQ8_0109tok/sQ8_0
Spark X2.5 4B79tok/smlx-4bit105tok/smlx-4bit
MiniCPM5 2B75tok/sQ8_0100tok/sQ8_0
FrogNano 4B 260970tok/sQ8_093tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B57tok/sQ8_076tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B57tok/sQ8_076tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 250652tok/sQ8_070tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B51tok/smlx-8bit68tok/smlx-8bit
GLM 4 9B 041446tok/smlx-5bit61tok/smlx-5bit
granite vision 4.1 4b44tok/sQ8_058tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b43tok/sQ8_057tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash41tok/sQ8_054tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B40tok/sQ8_053tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking37tok/smlx-8bit49tok/smlx-8bit
Ministral 3 3B Instruct 251236tok/sQ8_047tok/sQ8_0
Muse Glimmer 30B29tok/sQ5_K_M24tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B27tok/sQ5_K_M32tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251227tok/sQ4_K_M31tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffload39tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATEDoffload28tok/smlx-4bit
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512offload23tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14Boffload20tok/sQ8_0
Devstral Small 2507offload18tok/sQ8_0
Magistral Small 2506offload18tok/sQ8_0
Magistral Small 2507offload18tok/sQ8_0
Magistral Small 2509offload18tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 30bwon't run13tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.8 Flash Nextwon't runoffload
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70Bwon't runoffload
GLM 4.5Vwon't runoffload
GLM 4.6Vwon't runoffload
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon't runwon't run
GLM 5.3 Flashwon't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.7won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 0528won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Zerowon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3 0324won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminuswon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.2won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Expwon't runwon't run
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512won't runwon't run
GLM 4.5won't runwon't run
GLM 4.6won't runwon't run
GLM 4.7won't runwon't run
GLM 5won't runwon't run
GLM 5.1won't runwon't run
GLM 5.2won't runwon't run
GLM 5.3won't runwon't run
Kimi Dev 72Bwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.1won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M3won't runwon't run
Mistral Medium 3.5 128Bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB?
Choose the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB?
At 128k context the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB runs 68 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 31; only the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB is about 1.3× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB?
In Canada the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 costs $3,300 at eBay and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72GB $13,470 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is $10,170 cheaper.

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