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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 RTX 3090
1071
NVIDIA RTX A4000
604
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
2922
NVIDIA RTX A4000
1330
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Resnet50 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Resnet50 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
596
NVIDIA RTX A4000
232
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1625
NVIDIA RTX A4000
510
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Resnet50 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Resnet152 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
491
NVIDIA RTX A4000
245
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1029
NVIDIA RTX A4000
539
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Resnet152 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Resnet152 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
223
NVIDIA RTX A4000
89
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
434
NVIDIA RTX A4000
196
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Resnet152 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Inception V3 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
715
NVIDIA RTX A4000
364
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1720
NVIDIA RTX A4000
802
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Inception V3 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Inception V3 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
399
NVIDIA RTX A4000
146
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1267
NVIDIA RTX A4000
322
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Inception V3 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Inception V4 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
383
NVIDIA RTX A4000
157
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1022
NVIDIA RTX A4000
346
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Inception V4 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Inception V4 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
156
NVIDIA RTX A4000
65
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
319
NVIDIA RTX A4000
144
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Inception V4 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
VGG16 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
577
NVIDIA RTX A4000
216
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1004
NVIDIA RTX A4000
474
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
VGG16 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
VGG16 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
341
NVIDIA RTX A4000
133
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1077
NVIDIA RTX A4000
293
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
VGG16 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Googlenet (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Googlenet (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
(copy)
3D, GPU Rendering Benchmarks 2026 [Updated]
V-Ray
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
2185
NVIDIA RTX A4000
1594
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Octane
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
769
NVIDIA RTX A4000
442
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Redshift
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
2.3
NVIDIA RTX A4000
4.4
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Blender
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
6010.36
NVIDIA RTX A4000
3285.59
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Luxmark
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
95123
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Unreal Engine
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
47.6
NVIDIA RTX A4000
26.4
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
RELION Cryo-EM Benchmarks 2026 [Updated]
Total run time
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
165.9
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
57.1
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
BERT LARGE Training, Inference Benchmark 2026 [Updated]
Training Time (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
2.05
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
2.63
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Performance (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
30.59
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
102.85
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Training Time (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
3.85
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
4.48
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Performance (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
29.18
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
105.07
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
LLM Inference Benchmark 2026 [Updated]
Llama3.1 70B
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
2 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Llama3.1 405B
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
2 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
OpenAI gpt-oss-20b (FP4)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
OpenAI gpt-oss-120b (FP4)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX A4000
n/a
Technical Specifications
Board Design
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX A4000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Length | 336 mm | 241 mm |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | 4x DisplayPort |
| Power Connectors | 1x 12-pin | 1x 6-pin |
| Slot width | Triple-slot | Single-slot |
| TDP | 350 W | 140 W |
Clock Speeds
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX A4000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 1695 MHz | 1560 MHz |
| GPU Clock | 1395 MHz | 735 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 19500 MHz | 16000 MHz |
Graphics Card
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX A4000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Generation | GeForce 30 | Quadro (Ax000) |
Graphics Features
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX A4000 | |
|---|---|---|
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | 6.6 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | 8.6 |
Graphics Processor
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX A4000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ampere | Ampere |
| Die Size | 628 mm2 | 392 mm2 |
| GPU Name | GA102-300-A1 | GA104 |
| Process Size | 8 nm | 8 nm |
| Transistors | 28300 million | 17400 million |
Memory
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX A4000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth | 936.2 GB/s | 448 GB/s |
| Memory Bus | 384 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory Size | 24 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6X | GDDR6 |
Render Config
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX A4000 | |
|---|---|---|
| ROPs | 112 | 96 |
| RT Cores | 82 | 48 |
| Shading Units/ CUDA Cores | 10496 | 6144 |
| TMUs | 328 | 192 |
| Tensor Cores | 328 | 192 |
Theoretical Performance
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX A4000 | |
|---|---|---|
| FP16 (half) performance | 35.58 TFLOPS | 19.17 TFLOPS |
| FP32 (float) performance | 35.58 TFLOPS | 19.17 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) performance | 556 GFLOPS | 599 GFLOPS |
| Pixel Rate | 189.8 GPixel/s | 149.8 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 556 GTexel/s | 299.5 GTexel/s |
Price
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX A4000 | |
|---|---|---|
| MSRP | 1499 $ | 999 $ |
| Release Date | Sep 1st, 2020 | Apr 12th, 2021 |
Test bench configuration
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | NVIDIA RTX A4000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware | BIZON X5000 More details | BIZON X5000 More details |
| Software | 3D Rendering: Nvidia Driver: 456.38 VRay Benchmark: 5 Octane Benchmark: 2020.1.5 Redshift Benchmark: 3.0.28 Demo Blender: 2.90 Luxmark: 3.1 | 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 |