Head-to-head

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB

Compare recorded specifications and inspect source links for both devices. Speed comparisons appear only when workload, runtime version, quantization, context and batch match.

Device profile

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB

Compared here against NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB.

Curated Aggregate·2025-05-0148GB / $6.8k
Speed evidence

Matched rows below

VRAM

48 GB

TDP

300 W

Rating

Not scored

Device profile

NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB

Compared here against NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB.

Curated Aggregate·2024-08-2916GB / $1.8k
Speed evidence

Matched rows below

VRAM

16 GB

TDP

230 W

Rating

Not scored

Quick verdict

Speed comparisons require matching runtime settings. A missing score means insufficient comparative evidence.

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB wins VRAM capacity.

NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB has the lower published power rating.

MetricNVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GBNVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB
MyAI ratingNot scoredNot scored
Speed comparisonSee matched rows belowSee matched rows below
VRAM48 GB16 GB
TDP300 W230 W
MSRP$6.8k$1.8k
Workloads83

Shared benchmark rows

No batch-one rows with matching model, quantization, context, runtime and offload notes are available. We cannot calculate a comparable speed difference.
Open radar compare
External quality layer

Best open models likely to fit this class

This shortlist cross-references the external OpenEvals snapshot with an approximate Q4-class VRAM estimate. Use it to sanity-check whether the hardware you are comparing can host strong open models, not just benchmark toy workloads.

Full ingest

microsoft/Phi-3-medium-4k-instruct

14B params · est. 8.4 GB Q4

91.0
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB: likely fitNVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB: likely fit

Qwen/Qwen2-72B

73B params · est. 43.6 GB Q4

89.5
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB: likely fitNVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB: tight / no

microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

3.8B params · est. 2.3 GB Q4

86.2
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB: likely fitNVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB: likely fit

internlm/internlm2_5-7b-chat

7.7B params · est. 4.6 GB Q4

86.0
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB: likely fitNVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB: likely fit