NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

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NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

GPU
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation
VRAM
48 GB
Launch price
$6,800
Released
2022

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Specifications

MakerNVIDIA
TypeWorkstation card
GPUNVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation
Video memory (VRAM)48.0 GB
Usable for AI models48.0 GB
Memory bandwidth960 GB/s
FP16 compute91.1 TFLOPS
Notes300 W, dual slot blower, 4.4 x 10.5 in, PCIe 4.0
Product pagewww.nvidia.com (opens in a new tab)

Cards built on the same GPU with the same memory run AI models at practically the same speed; factory overclocks and coolers change results by only a few percent.

Best LLMs for the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
93Excellent quality (A+) · 93 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3BOpenBMB Q8_0 40.5 GB 114 tok/s Runs great
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.6 35B-A3BAlibaba Q6_K 32.6 GB 137 tok/s Runs great
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.5 35B-A3BAlibaba Q6_K 32.6 GB 137 tok/s Runs great
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Gemma 4 26B-A4BGoogle Q8_0 30.8 GB 98.6 tok/s Runs great
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Nex N2 Mini (35B-A3B)Nex-AGI Q8_0 40.4 GB 114 tok/s Runs great
91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. KAT-Coder V2.5 Dev (35B-A3B)Kuaishou Q8_0 39.9 GB 114 tok/s Runs great
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Sage-A1.5 35B-A3BInternScience Q6_K 32.6 GB 137 tok/s Runs great
89Excellent quality (A+) · 89 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Flint (40B-A2.5B)Recursive Q6_K 35.9 GB 150 tok/s Runs great
89Excellent quality (A+) · 89 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Ornith 1.5 35B-A3BDeepReinforce Q6_K 32.6 GB 137 tok/s Runs great
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apodex 1.1 Mini (35B-A3B)Apodex Q6_K 32.6 GB 137 tok/s Runs great

Best Image models for the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Krea 2 TurboKrea FP16 37.4 GB 4.0 s Runs great
87Excellent quality (A+) · 87 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen-Image 2.1 TurboAlibaba FP8 30.8 GB 9.7 s Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 9BBlack Forest Labs FP16 37.1 GB 1.7 s Runs great
91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX 3 Image KleinBlack Forest Labs FP16 22.4 GB 5.3 s Runs great
91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniMax H3 ImageMiniMax FP8 38.6 GB 8.8 s Runs greatencoder in RAM
85Excellent quality (A+) · 85 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. ERNIE-Image TurboBaidu FP16 26.4 GB 3.0 s Runs great

Best Video models for the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
81Great quality (A) · 81 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-2.5 (22B, video + audio)Lightricks Q4 GGUF 39.9 GB 1.7 min Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-2.3Lightricks FP8 44.3 GB 5.6 min Runs welltight fit
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-2 (19B, video + audio)Lightricks FP8 44.3 GB 5.6 min Runs welltight fit
66Good quality (B) · 66 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-Video 13B 0.9.8 (distilled)Lightricks FP8 30.1 GB 50 s Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Wan 2.2 I2V A14BAlibaba FP8 38.3 GB 22.3 min Slow

Best Decision models for the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3 Reranker 4BAlibaba F16 11.3 GB 50 ms Runs great
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3 Reranker 8BAlibaba F16 19.7 GB 98 ms Runs great
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. zerank-2ZeroEntropy F16 11.3 GB 50 ms Runs great
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Jina Reranker v3.5Jina AI F16 4.4 GB 11 ms Runs great
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Shieldstral 1.0 3BMistral AI F16 10.9 GB 48 ms Runs great
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Skywork Reward V2 Llama 3.1 8BSkywork Q8_0 10.4 GB 131 ms Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intern-Decision 4BShanghai AI Lab F16 12.1 GB 38 ms Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Jina Reranker v3Jina AI F16 4.4 GB 11 ms Runs great

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Spec sources

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.

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