NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada vs NVIDIA A6000

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada is $2,300.00 more expensive than NVIDIA A6000, while offering higher throughput.

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada48GB VRAM

ArchitectureAda Lovelace

Cores18,176

TDP300W

Lowest price$7,199.00

NVIDIA A600048GB VRAM

ArchitectureAmpere

Cores10,752

TDP300W

Lowest price$4,899.00

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speedNVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada18,176 cores

valueNVIDIA A6000Lowest price $4,899.00

efficiencyNVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada300W draw

vramNVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada48GB VRAM

Model	Quantization	NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada	NVIDIA A6000
google-t5/t5-3b	Q4	234.21 tok/s	166.68 tok/s
apple/OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct	Q4	233.80 tok/s	143.54 tok/s
google/gemma-3-1b-it	Q4	232.73 tok/s	156.13 tok/s
meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B	Q4	228.64 tok/s	170.32 tok/s
google/gemma-2b	Q4	227.11 tok/s	173.21 tok/s