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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell

For running models locally, priced in Canada. At 8k context the first runs 26 models fully in memory, the second 44.

In short

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell has more memory for models: 16 GB against 8 GB. At 8k context the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell runs 44 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB 26; only the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell holds Devstral Small 2 24B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB is about 1.6× as fast as the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell (estimated, median across models). In Canada the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB costs $732 at Amazon and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell $2,241 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB is $1,509 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB

$732

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NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell

$2,241

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GBNVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell
GPUGeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GBRTX PRO 2000 Blackwell
Memory8 GB GDDR716 GB GDDR7
Memory bus128-bit128-bit
Memory bandwidth448 GB/s288 GB/s
FP16 compute23.704 TFLOPS17.03 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power180 W70 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 5
PCIe lanesx8x8

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GBNVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell
Devstral Small 2 24Boffload11tok/sQ4_K_M
gpt-oss 20Boffload41tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12Boffload14tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B40tok/sQ5_K_M18tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffload11tok/sQ4_K_M
Ministral 3 14Boffload11tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 14Boffload13tok/sQ6_K
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B39tok/sQ5_K_M18tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B39tok/sQ5_K_M18tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14Boffload13tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 4B58tok/sQ8_037tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B44tok/sQ4_K_M18tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B40tok/sQ4_K_M17tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B48tok/sQ5_K_M21tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B144tok/sUD-Q5_K_M73tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B41tok/sQ5_K_M23tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B440tok/sQ8_0283tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B298tok/sQ8_0192tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B179tok/sQ5_K_M115tok/sQ5_K_M
LFM3 1.7B142tok/sQ8_091tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B130tok/sQ8_084tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B92tok/sQ8_059tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B82tok/sQ8_053tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B82tok/sQ8_053tok/sQ8_0
Spark X2.5 4B82tok/smlx-4bit53tok/smlx-4bit
granite vision 4.1 4b65tok/sQ8_042tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 3B Instruct 251261tok/sQ8_040tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b61tok/sQ8_039tok/sQ8_0
FrogNano 4B 260956tok/sQ8_036tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251244tok/sQ4_K_M18tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash43tok/sQ4_K_M17tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B41tok/sQ6_K21tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B41tok/sQ5_K_M19tok/sQ8_0
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinkingoffload38tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4 9B 0414offload21tok/smlx-5bit
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506offload49tok/sQ4_K_M
Kimi VL A3Boffload39tok/smlx-6bit
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512offload11tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14Boffload13tok/sQ6_K
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinkingoffload15tok/smlx-8bit
Devstral Small 2507offload11tok/sQ4_K_M
Magistral Small 2506offload11tok/sQ4_K_M
Magistral Small 2507offload11tok/sQ4_K_M
Magistral Small 2509offload11tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.7 Flashoffloadoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffloadoffload
Muse Glimmer 30Boffloadoffload
granite 4.2 30boffloadoffload
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATEDoffloadoffload
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon't runwon't run
GLM 5.3 Flashwon't runwon't run
Qwen 3.8 Flash Nextwon't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.7won't runwon't run
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Bwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runwon't run
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 0528won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70Bwon'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 4.5Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.6won't runwon't run
GLM 4.6Vwon'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 5060 Ti 8GB or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell?
Choose the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell?
At 8k context the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell runs 44 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB 26; only the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell holds Devstral Small 2 24B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB is about 1.6× as fast as the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell?
In Canada the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB costs $732 at Amazon and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell $2,241 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB is $1,509 cheaper.

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