RTX 5090 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 509023 sourced runs · best 446.7 tok/s
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell29 verified runs · best 1271.3 tok/s
Specs and evidence
| RTX 5090 | RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 32 GB | 96 GB |
| Sourced runs on the board | 23 | 29 |
| Models measured | 16 | 23 |
| Best output tok/s | 446.7 tok/s | 1271.3 tok/s |
| Highest measured peak VRAM | 31.3 GB | 72.7 GB |
| Street price (latest snapshot) | — | — |
Head-to-head
On the 6 models measured on both cards, RTX 5090 leads on 3, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell on 3. The widest gap is on Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct: RTX 5090 280.8 tok/s vs RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 90.0 tok/s (RTX 5090 212% faster).
The measured matrix
| Model | RTX 5090 | RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell |
|---|---|---|
| MobileLLM-125M | — | 1271.3 |
| Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct | — | 1060.0 |
| MobileLLM-350M | — | 980.8 |
| SmolLM2-360M-Instruct | — | 968.1 |
| Qwen3-0.6B | — | 956.4 |
| Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct | — | 699.9 |
| gemma-3-1b-it | — | 664.3 |
| Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | — | 489.2 |
| NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B | 446.7 | — |
| Qwen3.8-27B | 435.1 | 296.0 |
| Ling-3.0-tiny | — | 369.1 |
| Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | — | 330.2 |
| Ornith-1.0-35B | 196.6 | 309.7 |
| Ornith-1.0-35B-PrismaAURA-4.75bit-vllm-MTP | 283.1 | — |
| Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct | 280.8 | 90.0 |
| Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B | 258.8 | — |
| North-Mini-Code-1.0 | 258.4 | — |
| DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct | — | 237.3 |
| Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP | 222.9 | — |
| Laguna-XS-2.1 | 216.7 | — |
| KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev-AWQ-W4A16-ASYM | 201.2 | — |
| Qwen3-Coder-Next | — | 174.3 |
| Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct | — | 158.1 |
| Muse-Glimmer-30B | 124.8 | 152.2 |
| Qwen3.6-27B | 120.9 | 101.4 |
| Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated | 117.7 | — |
| Qwen3.8-27B-MTP | — | 112.1 |
| Qwen3.8-27B-5090-goldilocks | 93.5 | — |
| Qwen3-14B | — | 90.8 |
| Qwen3.6-27B-MTP | 28.3 | 60.1 |
| Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct | — | 50.3 |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 | 26.4 | — |
| Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct | — | 26.1 |