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Best GPUs for local LLM, AI development, compute in 2026. Recommended GPU & hardware for local LLM, AI training, inference (LLMs, generative AI). GPU training, inference benchmarks using PyTorch, TensorFlow for computer vision (CV), NLP, text-to-speech, etc.
We benchmark NVIDIA RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs and compare AI performance (local LLM, tokens/sec, deep learning training; FP16, FP8), 3d rendering, Cryo-EM performance in the most popular apps (Octane, VRay, Redshift, Blender, Luxmark, Unreal Engine, Relion Cryo-EM).
Our benchmarks will help you decide which GPU is the best GPU for your needs (NVIDIA RTX 5090/4090, NVIDIA H100 94GB NVL, H200 142GB NVL, A100 80GB, B200, B300, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, RTX PRO 6000 Ada, A6000, Quadro, Tesla). We provide an in-depth analysis of the AI performance of each graphic card's performance so you can make the most informed decision possible. We offer deep learning and 3d rendering benchmarks that will help you get the most out of your hardware.
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Featured GPU benchmarks:
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB vs. RTX 5090 32GB
- NVIDIA H100 NVL 94GB vs. H200 141GB NVL vs. A100 80GB
- NVIDIA A100 80GB vs. NVIDIA RTX 4090
- NVIDIA A6000 vs. NVIDIA A100 80GB
- NVIDIA V100 vs. NVIDIA RTX 3090
Benchmarks
Deep Learning AI GPU Benchmarks 2026 [Updated]
Resnet50 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
1720
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
5934
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Resnet50 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Resnet50 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
927
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
1715
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Resnet50 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Resnet152 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Resnet152 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Resnet152 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Resnet152 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Inception V3 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Inception V3 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Inception V3 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Inception V3 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Inception V4 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Inception V4 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Inception V4 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Inception V4 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
VGG16 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
VGG16 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
VGG16 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
VGG16 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Googlenet (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Googlenet (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
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3D, GPU Rendering Benchmarks 2026 [Updated]
V-Ray
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
5556
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Octane
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
1445
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Redshift
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
1.16
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Blender
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
981.58
NVIDIA RTX 4090
12123.96
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Luxmark
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
158815
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Unreal Engine
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
92.1
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
RELION Cryo-EM Benchmarks 2026 [Updated]
Total run time
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
105.2
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
53.2
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
BERT LARGE Training, Inference Benchmark 2026 [Updated]
Training Time (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Performance (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Training Time (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Performance (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
LLM Inference Benchmark 2026 [Updated]
Llama3.1 70B
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
10
2 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
20.3
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
20
Llama3.1 405B
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
2 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
OpenAI gpt-oss-20b (FP4)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
OpenAI gpt-oss-120b (FP4)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Technical Specifications
Board Design
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| Length | 267 mm | 336 mm |
| Outputs | No outputs | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort |
| Power Connectors | 8-pin EPS | 1x 16-pin |
| Slot width | Dual-slot | Triple-slot |
| TDP | 250 W | 450 W |
Clock Speeds
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 1695 MHz | 2520 MHz |
| GPU Clock | 885 MHz | 2235 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 14500 MHz | 21200 MHz |
Graphics Card
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Generation | Tesla (Axx) | GeForce 40 |
Graphics Features
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | 6.7 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | 8.9 |
Graphics Processor
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Name | GA107 | AD102-300-A1 |
| Process Size | 8 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | mm2 | 608 mm2 |
| Transistors | million | 76300 million |
Memory
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth | 231.9 GB/s | 1018 GB/s |
| Memory Bus | 128 bit | 384 bit |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X |
Render Config
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| ROPs | 40 | 192 |
| RT Cores | 10 | 128 |
| Shading Units/ CUDA Cores | 1280 | 16384 |
| TMUs | 40 | 512 |
| Tensor Cores | 40 | 512 |
Theoretical Performance
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| FP16 (half) performance | 4.339 TFLOPS | 82.58 TFLOPS |
| FP32 (float) performance | 4.339 TFLOPS | 82.58 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) performance | 135.6 GFLOPS | 1290 GFLOPS |
| Pixel Rate | 54.24 GPixel/s | 483.8 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 67.8 GTexel/s | 1290 GTexel/s |
Price
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| Release Date | Apr 12th, 2021 | Oct 12th, 2022 |
| MSRP | $ | 1599 $ |
Test bench configuration
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware | BIZON X5000 More details | BIZON X5500 More details |
| Software | NOTE: 4 GPU on a single PCB ---- 3D Rendering: Nvidia Driver: 461.40 VRay Benchmark: 5 Octane Benchmark: 2020.1.5 Redshift Benchmark: 3.0.28 Demo Blender: 2.90 Luxmark: 3.1 | 3D Rendering: Nvidia Driver: VRay Benchmark: Octane Benchmark: Redshift Benchmark: Blender: Luxmark: |