NVIDIA A6000 is $2,300.00 less expensive than NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada, while offering comparable throughput.
Quick answer
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada leads raw throughput, while NVIDIA A6000 offers the stronger value profile for most buyers.
| Spec | NVIDIA A6000 | NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 48GB | 48GB |
| Cores | 10,752 | 18,176 |
| TDP | 300W | 300W |
| Architecture | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
| Lowest price | $4,899.00 | $7,199.00 |
| Model | Quantization | NVIDIA A6000 | NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B | Q4 | 174.30 tok/s | 200.54 tok/s |
| apple/OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct | Q4 | 173.54 tok/s | 225.92 tok/s |
| ibm-research/PowerMoE-3b | Q4 | 172.49 tok/s | 222.52 tok/s |
| unsloth/gemma-3-1b-it | Q4 | 172.06 tok/s | 234.89 tok/s |
| meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct | Q4 | 170.69 tok/s | 229.82 tok/s |
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada wins pure speed in this comparison, while NVIDIA A6000 is the better value option for price-to-performance.
Use the winner cards for a quick direction, then verify model compatibility with your target models and VRAM requirements before purchase.
Use the compatibility checker and model requirement pages to validate whether your target quantization and workload fit either GPU.