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NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

For running models locally, priced in the UK. At 8k context the first runs 68 models fully in memory, the second 68.

In short

Both have 48 GB of memory for models; the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation has 960 GB/s of bandwidth and the NVIDIA RTX A6000 768 GB/s. At 8k context both run the same 68 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation is about 1.3× as fast as the NVIDIA RTX A6000 (estimated, median across models).

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

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada GenerationNVIDIA RTX A6000
GPURTX 6000 Ada GenerationRTX A6000
Memory48 GB GDDR648 GB GDDR6
Memory bus384-bit384-bit
Memory bandwidth960 GB/s768 GB/s
FP16 compute91.1 TFLOPS38.71 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power300 W300 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 4
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada GenerationNVIDIA RTX A6000
Qwen 3.8 27B20tok/sQ8_016tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B97tok/sUD-Q2_K_XL77tok/sUD-Q2_K_XL
Qwen 3.6 27B20tok/sQ8_016tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 Coder Next135tok/sQ4_K_M108tok/sQ4_K_M
Gemma 4 31B17tok/sQ8_014tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 4 119B139tok/sUD-Q2_K_XL111tok/sUD-Q2_K_XL
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B108tok/sQ8_086tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 27B20tok/sQ8_016tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 26B-A4B79tok/sQ8_063tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.5 Air49tok/sQ2_K39tok/sQ2_K
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B173tok/sQ4_K_M138tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B108tok/sQ8_086tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.7 Flash62tok/sQ8_050tok/sQ8_0
Devstral Small 2 24B23tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B104tok/sUD-Q6_K_XL83tok/sUD-Q6_K_XL
Kimi Linear 48B-A3B139tok/sQ6_K111tok/sQ6_K
gpt-oss 20B136tok/sMXFP4109tok/sMXFP4
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B89tok/sQ8_072tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 32B16tok/sQ8_013tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 12B45tok/sQ8_036tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B60tok/sQ8_048tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 3.2 24B23tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 3 27B20tok/sQ8_016tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B16tok/sQ8_013tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.3 70B13tok/sQ4_K_M11tok/sQ4_K_M
Ministral 3 14B38tok/sQ8_030tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 14B35tok/sQ8_028tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B60tok/sQ8_048tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B60tok/sQ8_048tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14B35tok/sQ8_028tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B124tok/sQ8_099tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B59tok/sQ8_047tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B56tok/sQ8_045tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B70tok/sQ8_056tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B244tok/sQ8_0195tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B78tok/sQ6_K62tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B942tok/sQ8_0754tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B639tok/sQ8_0511tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B383tok/sQ5_K_M306tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B280tok/sQ8_0224tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B196tok/sQ8_0157tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B176tok/sQ8_0141tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B176tok/sQ8_0141tok/sQ8_0
Spark X2.5 4B175tok/smlx-4bit140tok/smlx-4bit
granite vision 4.1 4b139tok/sQ8_0111tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512132tok/sQ8_0105tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b130tok/sQ8_0104tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 24B A2B128tok/sQ8_0102tok/sQ8_0
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking127tok/sQ8_0101tok/sQ8_0
FrogNano 4B 2609121tok/sQ8_096tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506106tok/sQ8_085tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B102tok/smlx-8bit81tok/smlx-8bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B70tok/sQ8_056tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4 9B 041469tok/smlx-5bit56tok/smlx-5bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B62tok/sQ8_050tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251259tok/sQ8_047tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash58tok/sQ8_046tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking49tok/smlx-8bit39tok/smlx-8bit
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 251238tok/sQ8_030tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B34tok/sQ8_028tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED28tok/smlx-4bit22tok/smlx-4bit
Devstral Small 250723tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
Magistral Small 250623tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
Magistral Small 250723tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
Magistral Small 250923tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
Muse Glimmer 30B18tok/sQ8_015tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 30b18tok/sQ8_014tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B13tok/sQ4_K_M11tok/sQ4_K_M
MiniMax M2.7offloadoffload
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Boffloadoffload
gpt-oss 120Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.5Voffloadoffload
GLM 4.6Voffloadoffload
Kimi Dev 72Boffloadoffload
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512offloadoffload
Mistral Medium 3.5 128Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon't runwon't run
GLM 5.3 Flashwon't runwon't run
Qwen 3.8 Flash Nextwon'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
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 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

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation or the NVIDIA RTX A6000?
Choose the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation for speed.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation or the NVIDIA RTX A6000?
At 8k context both run the same 68 models we track fully in memory.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation or the NVIDIA RTX A6000?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation is about 1.3× as fast as the NVIDIA RTX A6000 (estimated, median across models).

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