NVIDIA A40 48GB vs NVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 72GB for local LLMs
4 reports on the NVIDIA A40 48GB and 0 on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 72GB
Which is faster for local LLMs?
Nobody has reported the same model at the same quant on both cards yet, so there's no measured head-to-head. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 1.9x higher on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 72GB (696 GB/s on the NVIDIA A40 48GB, 1,344 on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 72GB). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
- Memory
- 48GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 696 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 150 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 4
- Memory
- 72GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 1,344 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 258 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 0
Estimated by the calculator
The quant the calculator recommends for each card and its estimated speed at a 32,768-token context with 32 GB of system RAM, from memory bandwidth and the model's shape.
| Model | NVIDIA A40 48GB | NVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 72GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 14.2 t/sQ8_0 | 13.7 t/sFP16 |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 64.5 t/sQ2_K | 95.0 t/sQ3_K_M |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | 9.2 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 44.7 t/sQ8_0 | 98.6 t/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 14.2 t/sQ8_0 | 13.7 t/sFP16 |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 38.3 t/sQ8_0 | 32.7 t/sFP16 |
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