NVIDIA RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell for local LLMs
228 reports on the NVIDIA RTX 3090 and 71 on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Which is faster for local LLMs?
On Qwen3.8 27B at 4-bit, the NVIDIA RTX 3090 has 37.4 generation tokens/s (6 runs); prompt processing 561.0 tokens/s (2 runs); the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell has 67.0 generation tokens/s (one run). Those are community reports whose engines and settings differ, so the gap is a rough sign, not a controlled measure of the two cards. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 1.9x higher on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (936 GB/s on the NVIDIA RTX 3090, 1,792 on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell). Across 2 shared models with generation measurements on both cards, the NVIDIA RTX 3090's median is higher on 0 and the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell's on 2.
- Memory
- 24GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 936 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 142 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 228
- Memory
- 96GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 1,792 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 503 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 71
Measured on both
Generation and prompt processing speeds from plain runs (one device, one request, no speculative decoding, the whole model in the device's memory) of the same model size at the same bit class. Each side shows the engines and reported context behind its median. Context can mean a configured window or prompt depth, so these are community comparisons with differing settings. How to read these
| Model | NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B4-bit | 37.46 runsPP 561.0 (2 runs)llama.cpp, vLLM, 1 not stated128K to 256K context, 1 not stated | 67.0one runengine not statedcontext not stated |
| Gemma 4 31B4-bit | 36.5one runllama.cppcontext not stated | 51.0one runPP 15359.0 (one run)vLLM16K context |
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. Where a model was also measured above, the measurement wins.
| Model | NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 33.9 t/sQ4_K_M | 18.3 t/sFP16 |
| Gemma 4 31B | 33.2 t/sQ4_K_S | 15.9 t/sFP16 |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 19.4 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM | 83.1 t/sQ5_K_S |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 120.1 t/sQ4_K_S | 57.5 t/sFP16 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | 130.8 t/sQ2_K |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 33.9 t/sQ4_K_M | 18.3 t/sFP16 |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 76.4 t/sQ5_K_S | 49.3 t/sFP16 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 552B · 16B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
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