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8 Large Language Models on a Single NVIDIA Blackwell Server

8 LLMs, 8 GPUs, one server. From Qwen 3 30B MoE at 33.4 tok/s to Mistral 123B at 18.5 tok/s — and every model available via Token Factory at $0.10/M tokens.

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packet.ai Team
February 13, 2026

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition has 96 GB of GDDR7 VRAM per GPU — enough to run 70B-parameter models on a single card using 4-bit quantisation. We put eight of them on one server and deployed a different open-source LLM on each GPU.

Key takeaways

  • Each RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU has 96 GB GDDR7 — enough to run unquantised 70B models on a single card
  • Fastest model: Qwen 3 30B MoE at 33.4 tok/s; largest model: Mistral Large 123B at 18.5 tok/s (only possible because of 96 GB VRAM)
  • All 8 models run on vLLM v0.15.1 with --enforce-eager — CUDA graph compilation causes a regression on GB202 Blackwell architecture
  • All models available through Token Factory at $0.10/M tokens for both input and output
  • That’s 8.8× cheaper than Together.ai ($0.88/M) and 9× cheaper than Fireworks.ai ($0.90/M) for Llama 3.3 70B

The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell sits in an interesting position: it’s a professional GPU, not a datacenter GPU, which means it’s available on-demand without waitlists, at a fraction of H100 prices. For inference serving at 30B–70B parameter range, the 96 GB VRAM per card changes what’s possible on a single GPU.

The hardware: RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition

The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition is built on the GB202 chip — Blackwell architecture, Compute Capability 12.0 — with 96 GB of GDDR7 per GPU. An 8-GPU server provides 768 GB total VRAM.

96 GB

GDDR7 per GPU

768 GB

total VRAM (8×)

CC 12.0

Blackwell GB202

$0.66/hr

on packet.ai

The 96 GB VRAM is the key spec. Previous-generation professional GPUs topped out at 48 GB (RTX 6000 Ada). Doubling that unlocks unquantised 70B models on a single GPU — previously a multi-GPU requirement — and makes Mistral Large 123B possible with 4-bit quantisation.

Independent benchmarks from databasemart.com show the PRO 6000 reaching 8,990 tokens/s on Llama-3-8B and 5,160 tokens/s on Qwen-14B under high-concurrency vLLM serving — outperforming H100 at those model sizes while costing significantly less per hour.

The 8 models: throughput benchmarks

One model per GPU, each running vLLM v0.15.1 with --enforce-eager. Results are steady-state throughput under production serving load:

Model Size Throughput Precision
Qwen 3 30B MoE30B33.4 tok/sMoE architecture
Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct72B31.9 tok/s4-bit
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct70B28.5 tok/s4-bit
Nemotron 70B Instruct70B28.5 tok/s4-bit
Qwen 3 32B32B~25 tok/sBF16 — no quantisation needed
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B32B~25 tok/sBF16
DeepSeek R1 Distill 32B32B~25 tok/sBF16
Mistral Large 123B123B18.5 tok/s4-bit — only possible at 96 GB

Mistral Large 123B requires 96 GB VRAM even at 4-bit quantisation. It simply cannot run on an H100 80GB, an A100 80GB, or any previous single-GPU option. The RTX PRO 6000’s memory headroom is the only reason it appears in this list.

vLLM on Blackwell: the --enforce-eager flag

All 8 models run on vLLM v0.15.1 with --enforce-eager. CUDA graph compilation currently causes a performance regression on Blackwell GB202 architecture. This is a vLLM/CUDA driver issue being tracked upstream and is expected to be resolved in a future release. Once CUDA graph compilation stabilises on Blackwell, throughput will improve further.

Quick start

To launch any of these models on an RTX PRO 6000 via vLLM:

vllm serve meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct \
  --enforce-eager \
  --max-model-len 8192 \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.90

Token Factory: all 8 models at $0.10/M tokens

All 8 models are available through the Token Factory API at $0.10/M tokens for both input and output — the same OpenAI-compatible endpoint, same streaming support, same SDK.

Provider Model Price/M tokens vs Token Factory
packet.ai Token FactoryLlama 3.3 70B$0.10
Together.aiLlama 3.3 70B$0.888.8× more expensive
Fireworks.aiLlama 3.3 70B$0.909× more expensive
AWS BedrockLlama 3.3 70B$0.727.2× more expensive
DeepInfraLlama 3.3 70B$0.23–$0.402.3–4× more expensive

To use any of the 8 models via Token Factory, change one line in your existing OpenAI SDK code:

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://dash.packet.ai/api/v1",
    api_key="your-packet-api-key"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)

Frequently asked questions

Yes. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has 96 GB of GDDR7 VRAM per GPU — double the 48 GB of the previous-generation RTX 6000 Ada. This is enough to run Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct, and Nemotron 70B using 4-bit quantisation on a single card. Qwen 3 32B and Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B run in full BF16 precision without quantisation.
CUDA graph compilation currently causes a performance regression on Blackwell GB202 architecture (Compute Capability 12.0) with vLLM v0.15.1. Using --enforce-eager bypasses CUDA graph compilation and avoids the regression. This is a known upstream issue and is expected to be resolved in a future vLLM release as Blackwell driver support matures.
At high concurrency on 8B–32B models, independent benchmarks show the RTX PRO 6000 matching or exceeding H100 throughput under vLLM serving, with 8,990 tok/s on Llama-8B versus H100’s comparable throughput — at 28% lower cost per token. H100 SXM retains an advantage on very large models (70B+) requiring NVLink tensor parallelism. On single-GPU 32B–70B inference, the PRO 6000 is highly competitive.
Token Factory charges $0.10/M tokens for real-time inference and $0.05/M for batch processing (24-hour SLA). This is 8.8× cheaper than Together.ai and 9× cheaper than Fireworks.ai for the same Llama 3.3 70B model. First 10,000 tokens are free — see token-factory.
Yes. RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs are available on packet.ai from $0.66/hr on-demand with no waitlist. Single GPUs and full 8-GPU servers are available. Browse available clusters for current availability.

Last reviewed: 10 June 2026. Try Token Factory → or browse RTX PRO 6000 clusters on packet.ai →

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