What can NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell run for coding?
Build: RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell + Threadripper PRO + 128GB
Runs comfortably223 models
Ranked by fit for coding use case + predicted speed. Click a row for VRAM breakdown.
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 19.8 GBHeadroom: 76.2 GBollama run deepseek-coder-v2:16b121tok/sEstimated
ollama run deepseek-coder-v2:16bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.7 GBHeadroom: 86.3 GBollama run codegemma:7b276tok/sEstimated
ollama run codegemma:7bQuant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 37.0 GBHeadroom: 59.0 GBollama run codestral:22b50tok/sEstimated
ollama run codestral:22bQuant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 14.4 GBHeadroom: 81.6 GBollama run qwen3:8b137tok/sEstimated
ollama run qwen3:8bQuant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 10.8 GBHeadroom: 85.2 GBollama run qwen2.5:7b157tok/sEstimated
ollama run qwen2.5:7bQuant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 24.6 GBHeadroom: 71.4 GBollama run qwen3:14b78tok/sEstimated
ollama run qwen3:14bQuant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 25.3 GBHeadroom: 70.7 GBollama run qwen2.5:14b78tok/sEstimated
ollama run qwen2.5:14bQuant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 39.7 GBHeadroom: 56.3 GBollama run qwen2.5-coder:32b34tok/sEstimated
ollama run qwen2.5-coder:32bQuant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 50.4 GBHeadroom: 45.6 GBollama run qwen3:30b37tok/sEstimated
ollama run qwen3:30bQuant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 36.1 GBHeadroom: 59.9 GBollama run muse-glimmer37tok/sEstimated
ollama run muse-glimmerQuant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 52.0 GBHeadroom: 44.0 GBollama run gemma4:31b35tok/sEstimated
ollama run gemma4:31bQuant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 53.5 GBHeadroom: 42.5 GBollama run qwen3:32b34tok/sEstimated
ollama run qwen3:32bRuns with tradeoffs12 models
Tight VRAM, partial CPU offload, or context-limited.
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 172.0 GBHeadroom: 0.8 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~44% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
29tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~44% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 172.0 GBHeadroom: 0.8 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~44% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
29tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~44% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
Quant: AWQ-INT4Context: 8,192VRAM: 159.9 GBHeadroom: 12.9 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~40% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
25tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~40% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 146.6 GBHeadroom: 26.2 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~34% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
20tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~34% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 92.4 GBHeadroom: 3.6 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.6 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run nemotron3:super16tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.6 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run nemotron3:superQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 93.8 GBHeadroom: 2.2 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 2.2 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run mistral-large:123b16tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 2.2 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run mistral-large:123bQuant: AWQ-INT4Context: 8,192VRAM: 146.6 GBHeadroom: 26.2 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~34% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
12tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~34% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 160.5 GBHeadroom: 12.3 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~40% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run mixtral:8x22b5tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~40% of layers run on CPU
- • CPU is the bottleneck — upgrading RAM bandwidth helps more than VRAM here
ollama run mixtral:8x22bWhat if you upgraded?
Hypothetical scenarios. We re-ran the compatibility engine for each.
+32 GB system RAM
~$80–150
Doubles your CPU-offload working set. Helps when models don't quite fit in VRAM.
Unlocks: 41 new comfortable, 14 new tradeoff
- • Qwen 3 0.6B
- • Qwen 3 1.7B
- • Gemma 3 270M
- • SmolLM2 135M Instruct
Upgrade to NVIDIA H200 NVL (PCIe)
~$32000
141 GB VRAM (vs your 96 GB) plus a bandwidth jump from ~1792 GB/s to ~4800 GB/s.
Unlocks: 46 new comfortable
- • Qwen 3 0.6B
- • Qwen 3 1.7B
- • Gemma 3 270M
- • SmolLM2 135M Instruct
Add a second NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
~$8999
Tensor parallelism splits the model across both cards, effectively doubling VRAM. Bandwidth doesn't double — runs ~1.5× the single-card speed in practice.
Unlocks: 55 new comfortable
- • Qwen 3 235B-A22B
- • Qwen 3 0.6B
- • GLM-5
- • Qwen 3 1.7B
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Won't runtop 5 popular models
Need more memory than you have. Shown for orientation.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (96 GB) + 60% of system RAM (77 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (96 GB) + 60% of system RAM (77 GB) combined.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (96 GB) + 60% of system RAM (77 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (96 GB) + 60% of system RAM (77 GB) combined.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (96 GB) + 60% of system RAM (77 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (96 GB) + 60% of system RAM (77 GB) combined.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (96 GB) + 60% of system RAM (77 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (96 GB) + 60% of system RAM (77 GB) combined.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (96 GB) + 60% of system RAM (77 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (96 GB) + 60% of system RAM (77 GB) combined.
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