RTX A6000 48GB vs Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB for Local LLMs

The RTX A6000 48GB has about 257% more memory bandwidth (768 vs 215 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 257% faster on the RTX A6000 48GB. The Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 51 vs 41 of 69 models (96 vs 48 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB but not the RTX A6000 48GB: DeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B). MSRP is $4,500 for the RTX A6000 48GB vs $2,000 for the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (57 shared models), the RTX A6000 48GB posts the higher tok/s in 51 rows vs 6. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	RTX A6000 48GB	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB
Vendor	NVIDIA	AMD
VRAM	48 GB	96 GB
Memory type	GDDR6	LPDDR5X
Memory bandwidth	768 GB/s	215 GB/s
TDP	300 W	120 W
MSRP (list)	$4,500	$2,000
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 57 shared models

Model	Params (B)	RTX A6000 48GB tok/s	RTX A6000 48GB fits	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB tok/s	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB fits	Winner
MiniCPM5-1B	1.08	452.5 est.	Yes	126.7 est.	Yes	RTX A6000 48GB
Qwen3.5-2B	2.0	244.4 est.	Yes	68.4 est.	Yes	RTX A6000 48GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx	2.3	212.5 est.	Yes	59.5 est.	Yes	RTX A6000 48GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	36.0	162.9 est.	Yes	45.6 est.	Yes	RTX A6000 48GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	34.7	162.9 est.	Yes	45.6 est.	Yes	RTX A6000 48GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	162.9 est.	Yes	45.6 est.	Yes	RTX A6000 48GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	162.9 est.	Yes	45.6 est.	Yes	RTX A6000 48GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16	30.0	162.9 est.	Yes	45.6 est.	Yes	RTX A6000 48GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next	79.7	162.9 est.	Yes	45.6 est.	Yes	RTX A6000 48GB
Ornith-1.0-35B	35.0	162.9 est.	Yes	45.6 est.	Yes	RTX A6000 48GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	81.3	162.9 est.	Yes	45.6 est.	Yes	RTX A6000 48GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated	34.7	162.9 est.	Yes	45.6 est.	Yes	RTX A6000 48GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	152.7 est.	Yes	42.8 est.	Yes	RTX A6000 48GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	135.8 est.	Yes	38.0 est.	Yes	RTX A6000 48GB
gpt-oss-120b	120.4	135.3 est.	No	26.8 est.	Yes	RTX A6000 48GB

est. = bandwidth-based estimate; measured = curated real benchmark that overrides the estimate. Fits = weights + KV(8K) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM.

Fit coverage at Q4 / 8K

	RTX A6000 48GB	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB
Catalog models that fit	41 of 69	51 of 69
Largest exclusive fit	—	DeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B)

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