NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 for local LLMs
64 reports on the NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB and 1 on the NVIDIA RTX A5000
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 2.1x higher on the NVIDIA RTX A5000 (360 GB/s on the NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB, 768 on the NVIDIA RTX A5000). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB
- Memory
- 12GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 51 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 64
NVIDIA RTX A5000
- Memory
- 24GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 768 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 111.1 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 1
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 RTX 3060 12GB | NVIDIA RTX A5000 |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 1.5 t/sQ8_0, layers on CPU | 27.8 t/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | doesn't fit at these settings | 19.1 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 13.1 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM | 98.5 t/sQ4_K_S |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 1.5 t/sQ8_0, layers on CPU | 27.8 t/sQ4_K_M |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 58.8 t/sQ2_K | 62.7 t/sQ5_K_S |
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