RTX 6000 Ada 48GB vs V100 16GB PCIe for Local LLMs
The RTX 6000 Ada 48GB has about 7% more memory bandwidth (960 vs 900 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 7% faster on the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB. The RTX 6000 Ada 48GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 46 vs 25 of 73 models (48 vs 16 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB but not the V100 16GB PCIe: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct (81.3B). MSRP is $6,800 for the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB vs $8,000 for the V100 16GB PCIe. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. Not retail-shoppable: V100 16GB PCIe (datacenter-class; cloud rental is the realistic way to use it). In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (49 shared models), the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB posts the higher tok/s in 43 rows vs 6. Methodology.