RTX 3090 vs RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell

Best sourced output tok/s per model (single-stream generation) — engine and version, quantization, context and a source link on every row. Hover a value for the quant.

RTX 309018 sourced runs · best 709.5 tok/s

RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell29 verified runs · best 1271.3 tok/s

Specs and evidence

	RTX 3090	RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
VRAM	24 GB	96 GB
Sourced runs on the board	18	29
Models measured	11	23
Best output tok/s	709.5 tok/s	1271.3 tok/s
Highest measured peak VRAM	22.0 GB	72.7 GB
Street price (latest snapshot)	$1,720 used	—

Sourced rows only. Peak VRAM is recorded by the person who ran the benchmark, so it is a floor for what the card can hold, not a specification. Price snapshots.

Head-to-head

Only one model has been measured on both cards (Qwen3.8-27B). On that single data point RTX 3090 records 164.6 tok/s and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell records 296.0 tok/s — treat it as one data point, not a ranking.

The measured matrix

Model	RTX 3090	RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
MobileLLM-125M	—	1271.3 Q8_0
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct	—	1060.0 Q8_0
MobileLLM-350M	—	980.8 Q8_0
SmolLM2-360M-Instruct	—	968.1 Q8_0
Qwen3-0.6B	—	956.4 Q4_K_M
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct	709.5 Q4_K_M	—
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	—	699.9 Q8_0
gemma-3-1b-it	—	664.3 Q4_K_M
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	—	489.2 Q4_K_M
Qwen3.5-0.8B-MTP	476.1 Q6_K_XL	—
Ling-3.0-tiny	—	369.1 Q4_K_M
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B	353.7 NVFP4	—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	—	330.2 NVFP4
Ornith-1.0-35B	—	309.7 Q4_K_M
LFM2.5-2.6B	305.6 Q4_K_M	—
Qwen3.8-27B	164.6 EXL3-3.5bpw	296.0 NVFP4
Qwen3.5-4B-MTP	240.4 Q6_K_XL	—
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct	—	237.3 FP8
Qwen3-Coder-Next	—	174.3 FP8
Qwen3.5-9B-MTP	164.3 Q6_K_XL	—
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	—	158.1 FP8
Muse-Glimmer-30B	—	152.2 NVFP4
Qwen3.8-27B-MTP	—	112.1 NVFP4
Qwen3.6-27B	—	101.4 FP8
Qwen3-14B	—	90.8 FP8
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct	—	90.0 Q8_0
Qwen3.6-27B-MTP	—	60.1 Q6_K
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct	—	50.3 BF16
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	38.6 EXL3 2.50bpw	—
Ornstein3.6-27B-MTP-NSC-ACE-SABER	32.9 Q4_K_M	—
GLM-5.3-Flash	28.1 EXL3 3.05 bpw	—
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	—	26.1 FP8
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash	26.0 EXL3 3.0 bpw	—

Head-to-head (models tested on both): RTX 3090 0 · RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 1 · tied 0 · data as of Oct 30, 2026. Full rules: methodology.

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