L40S 48GB vs RTX 6000 Ada 48GB for Local LLMs

The RTX 6000 Ada 48GB has about 11% more memory bandwidth (960 vs 864 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 11% faster on the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB. Both fit the same number of catalog models at Q4/8K (39 of 61; 48 vs 48 GB VRAM). MSRP is $8,000 for the L40S 48GB vs $6,800 for the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB. 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 (50 shared models), the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB posts the higher tok/s in 50 rows vs 0. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	L40S 48GB	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Vendor	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
VRAM	48 GB	48 GB
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Memory bandwidth	864 GB/s	960 GB/s
TDP	350 W	300 W
MSRP (list)	$8,000	$6,800
Buy	Search Amazon (affiliate)	Search Amazon (affiliate)

MSRP is the launch list price, not live retail. Buy links are Amazon affiliate links — the price after you click is the live price.

Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 50 shared models

Model	Params (B)	L40S 48GB tok/s	L40S 48GB fits	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB tok/s	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB fits	Winner
Qwen3-0.6B	0.8	687.3 est.	Yes	763.6 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	81.3	562.3 est.	No	624.8 est.	No	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
gemma-3-1b-it	1.0	549.8 est.	Yes	610.9 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	1.2	458.2 est.	Yes	509.1 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Qwen3-1.7B	2.0	274.9 est.	Yes	305.5 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B	30.5	183.3 est.	Yes	203.6 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	30.5	183.3 est.	Yes	203.6 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	183.3 est.	Yes	203.6 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	183.3 est.	Yes	203.6 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next	79.7	183.3 est.	Yes	203.6 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	171.8 est.	Yes	190.9 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	152.7 est.	Yes	169.7 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
gpt-oss-120b	120.4	152.4 est.	No	169.3 est.	No	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3	7.2	76.4 est.	Yes	166.6 measured	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct	3.8	144.7 est.	Yes	160.8 est.	Yes	RTX 6000 Ada 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

	L40S 48GB	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
Catalog models that fit	39 of 61	39 of 61
Largest exclusive fit	—	—

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