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NVIDIA RTX 5090 Laptop 24GB vs NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell for local LLMs

4 reports on the NVIDIA RTX 5090 Laptop 24GB and 51 on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell

Which is faster for local LLMs?

On Qwen3.8 27B at 4-bit, the NVIDIA RTX 5090 Laptop 24GB runs at 30.0 tokens per second (one run) and the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell at 67.0 (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 2.0x higher on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (896 GB/s on the NVIDIA RTX 5090 Laptop 24GB, 1,792 on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell).

NVIDIA RTX 5090 Laptop 24GB
Memory
24GB
Memory bandwidth
896 GB/s
FP16 compute
200 TFLOPS
Reports
4
NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Memory
96GB
Memory bandwidth
1,792 GB/s
FP16 compute
503 TFLOPS
Reports
51

Measured on both

Median tokens per second 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 quant level. Engines and context lengths can still differ between the runs. How to read these

ModelNVIDIA RTX 5090 Laptop 24GBNVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Qwen3.8 27B4-bit30.0one run67.0one run

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.

ModelNVIDIA RTX 5090 Laptop 24GBNVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Qwen3.8 27B32.4 t/sQ4_K_M18.3 t/sFP16
Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active19.4 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM83.1 t/sQ5_K_S
DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B activedoesn't fit at these settings130.8 t/sQ2_K
Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active115.0 t/sQ4_K_S57.5 t/sFP16
Qwen3.6 27B32.4 t/sQ4_K_M18.3 t/sFP16
Gemma 4 26B · 4B active73.2 t/sQ5_K_S49.3 t/sFP16
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 552B · 16B activedoesn't fit at these settingsdoesn't fit at these settings

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