NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
For running models locally, priced in India. At 8k context the first runs 28 models fully in memory, the second 41.
In short
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has more memory for models: 96 GB against 24 GB. At 8k context the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell runs 41 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 28; only the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell holds DeepSeek V4 Flash. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is about 1.7× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti (estimated, median across models).
Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.
Specifications
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell |
| Memory | 24 GB GDDR6X | 96 GB GDDR7 |
| Memory bus | 384-bit | 512-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,008 GB/s | 1,792 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 80 TFLOPS | 504 TFLOPS |
| Software | CUDA | CUDA |
| Board power | 450 W | 600 W |
| PCIe generation | Gen 4 | Gen 5 |
| PCIe lanes | x16 | x16 |
What each runs
Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.
| Model | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | won't run | 89tok/sUD-Q2_K_XL |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next | won't run | 21tok/sUD-Q3_K_XL |
| Qwen 3.8 27B | 28tok/sUD-Q6_K | 37tok/sQ8_0 |
| MiniMax M2.7 | won't run | 117tok/sUD-Q2_K_XL |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B | offload | 79tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | 27tok/sQ6_K | 38tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 31B | 27tok/sQ5_K_M | 33tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | offload | 151tok/sQ8_0 |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B | won't run | 81tok/sUD-Q4_K_M |
| gpt-oss 120B | won't run | 195tok/sMXFP4 |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | offload | 110tok/sUD-Q6_K |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B | 181tok/sUD-Q4_K_M | 201tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 27B | 27tok/sQ6_K | 38tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | 95tok/sUD-Q6_K | 147tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4.5 Air | offload | 40tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B | 181tok/sQ4_K_M | 201tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | 94tok/sQ5_K_M | 117tok/sQ8_0 |
| Devstral Small 2 24B | 30tok/sQ6_K | 42tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B | offload | 196tok/sQ8_0 |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B | offload | 195tok/sUD-Q6_K_XL |
| gpt-oss 20B | 142tok/sMXFP4 | 253tok/sMXFP4 |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | 128tok/sQ5_K_M | 167tok/sQ8_0 |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B | offload | 202tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3 32B | 29tok/sQ4_K_M | 30tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 12B | 48tok/sQ8_0 | 85tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 64tok/sQ8_0 | 113tok/sQ8_0 |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | 30tok/sQ6_K | 42tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | 28tok/sQ4_K_M | 30tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 3 27B | 27tok/sQ6_K | 37tok/sQ8_0 |
| Llama 3.3 70B | offload | 14tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 14B | 40tok/sQ8_0 | 71tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3 14B | 37tok/sQ8_0 | 65tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | 63tok/sQ8_0 | 112tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3 8B | 63tok/sQ8_0 | 112tok/sQ8_0 |
| Phi-4 14B | 36tok/sQ8_0 | 64tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 130tok/sQ8_0 | 231tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 8B | 62tok/sQ8_0 | 109tok/sQ8_0 |
| Granite 4.2 8B | 59tok/sQ8_0 | 104tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 74tok/sQ8_0 | 131tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | 256tok/sQ8_0 | 455tok/sQ8_0 |
| Llama 3.1 8B | 82tok/sQ6_K | 145tok/sQ6_K |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | won't run | offload |
Questions
- Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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.
- Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell?
- At 8k context the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell runs 41 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 28; only the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell holds DeepSeek V4 Flash.
- Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti or the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell?
- On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is about 1.7× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti (estimated, median across models).
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