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.
- Memory
- 72GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 1,344 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 258 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 0
- 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.
| Model | NVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 72GB | NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 13.7 t/sFP16 | 18.3 t/sFP16 |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 95.0 t/sQ3_K_M | 83.1 t/sQ5_K_S |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | 9.2 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM | 130.8 t/sQ2_K |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 98.6 t/sQ8_0 | 57.5 t/sFP16 |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 13.7 t/sFP16 | 18.3 t/sFP16 |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 32.7 t/sFP16 | 49.3 t/sFP16 |
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