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NVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 72GB vs NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell for local LLMs

0 reports on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 72GB and 51 on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell

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 33% higher on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (1,344 GB/s on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 72GB, 1,792 on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.

NVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 72GB
Memory
72GB
Memory bandwidth
1,344 GB/s
FP16 compute
258 TFLOPS
Reports
0
NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Memory
96GB
Memory bandwidth
1,792 GB/s
FP16 compute
503 TFLOPS
Reports
51

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.

ModelNVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 72GBNVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Qwen3.8 27B13.7 t/sFP1618.3 t/sFP16
Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active95.0 t/sQ3_K_M83.1 t/sQ5_K_S
DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active9.2 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM130.8 t/sQ2_K
Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active98.6 t/sQ8_057.5 t/sFP16
Qwen3.6 27B13.7 t/sFP1618.3 t/sFP16
Gemma 4 26B · 4B active32.7 t/sFP1649.3 t/sFP16

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