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RTX 6000 Ada Generation

RTX 6000 Ada Generation has 48 GB of VRAM at 960 GB/s — about 44.64 GiB usable after driver and compositor overhead. 2031 of 2118 indexed models fit at 32K context with q8_0 KV.

Spec sheet· bandwidth, theoreticalFrom the file· fit from summed bytesPredicted· speed
Memory
48 GB
GDDR6
Bandwidth
960 GB/s
384-bit bus
Tensor FP16
364 TF
dense
TDP
300 W
$6799 MSRP
KV cachef16q8_0q4_0quantizing the KV cache is a ~2× lever on the dominant term at long context
vision language 184text 1743image 2video 16audio tts 21embedding 26audio asr 39

What fits at 32K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 2031 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
Qwen3.5-122B-A10BMoEQ2_K125B43.21 GiB0.40 GiB44.63 GiB0.01 GiB71±37%
Phi-3.5-MoE-instructMoEKV unresolvedQ8_041.9B41.44 GiB2.13 GiB44.58 GiB0.06 GiB33±37%
Assistant_Pepe_70BIQ4_NL70.6B38.03 GiB5.31 GiB44.47 GiB0.17 GiB13±22%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-REAM-160-ru-agentMoEBF1623.6B43.09 GiB0.33 GiB44.43 GiB0.21 GiB62±37%
CalmeRys-78B-Orpo-v0.1I1-Q3_K_M78.0B37.54 GiB5.71 GiB44.38 GiB0.26 GiB13±22%
calme-2.3-rys-78bQ3_K_M78.0B37.54 GiB5.71 GiB44.38 GiB0.26 GiB13±22%
GLM-4.6VMoEIQ2_M108B40.26 GiB3.05 GiB44.34 GiB0.30 GiB39±37%
ALIA-40b-fc-2606Q8_040.4B40.02 GiB3.19 GiB44.32 GiB0.32 GiB13±22%
ALIA-40b-instruct-2606Q8_040.4B40.02 GiB3.19 GiB44.32 GiB0.32 GiB13±22%
Qwen3-53B-A3B-2507-THINKING-TOTAL-RECALL-v2-MASTER-CODERMoEI1-Q6_K53.0B40.54 GiB2.79 GiB44.32 GiB0.32 GiB38±37%
Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-InstructMoEKV unresolvedQ2_K109B40.03 GiB3.19 GiB44.25 GiB0.39 GiB39±37%
NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B-BF16MoEQ4_K_S75.4B43.15 GiB0.00 GiB44.22 GiB0.42 GiB111±37%
Wizard-Vicuna-30B-UncensoredI1-Q4_K_S32.5B17.21 GiB25.90 GiB44.18 GiB0.46 GiB13±22%
archangel_sft-kto_llama30bI1-Q4_K_S32.5B17.21 GiB25.90 GiB44.18 GiB0.46 GiB13±22%
GLM-4.5-Air-REAP-82B-A12BMoEQ3_K_L81.9B40.10 GiB3.05 GiB44.18 GiB0.46 GiB36±37%
Huihui-Qwen3-Coder-Next-abliteratedMoEQ4_079.7B42.78 GiB0.40 GiB44.17 GiB0.47 GiB80±37%
GLM-4.5VMoEI1-IQ2_M108B40.08 GiB3.05 GiB44.17 GiB0.47 GiB39±37%
Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509Q4_K_S70.6B37.67 GiB5.31 GiB44.16 GiB0.48 GiB13±22%
WizardLM-Uncensored-SuperCOT-StoryTelling-30bQ4_K_S32.5B17.17 GiB25.90 GiB44.14 GiB0.50 GiB13±22%
Mixtral_34Bx2_MoE_60BMoEQ5_K_M60.8B39.03 GiB3.98 GiB44.10 GiB0.54 GiB7±37%
OYM-Qimi-122B-A10B-K2.6MoEI1-Q2_K125B42.67 GiB0.40 GiB44.09 GiB0.55 GiB72±37%
Qwopus3.5-122B-A10B-Kimi-K2.6-destill-healed-abliteratedMoEQ2_K123B42.66 GiB0.40 GiB44.09 GiB0.55 GiB72±37%
Meta-Llama-3-70B-InstructQ4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.02 GiB0.62 GiB13±22%
Maenad-70BI1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-Uncensored-v2-Unbiased-ReasonerI1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
calme-2.4-llama3-70bQ4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
calme-2.2-llama3-70bQ4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Rombos-LLM-70b-Llama-3.3I1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
L3.3-Electra-R1-70bI1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
L3.3-70B-Magnum-v4-SEQ4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Latxa-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct-v2I1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Llama-3.3_70_b_uncensored_continuedI1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-abliteratedI1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Strawberrylemonade-L3-70B-v1.2Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
grok-oss-Revenant-70BI1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct-HFI1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
L3.3-70B-Euryale-v2.3I1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Hermes-4-70B-hereticI1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Hermes-4-70BQ4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Llama-3.3-70B-InstructQ4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Llama-3.1-70BQ4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70BQ4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Anubis-70B-v1.2Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Golem-70B-v1bI1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-abliteratedI1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-hereticI1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70BQ4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
llama-3-firefunction-v2Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Legion-V2.1-LLaMa-70BI1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Tess-R1-Limerick-Llama-3.1-70BQ4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
SEMIKONG-70BQ4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
functionary-medium-v3.2KV unresolvedQ4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Infinity-Instruct-7M-Gen-Llama3_1-70BI1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
New-Dawn-Llama-3-70B-32K-v1.0I1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-abliterated-v3.5I1-Q4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Athene-70BQ4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
L3.3-70B-Magnum-DiamondQ4_K_S70.6B37.58 GiB5.31 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Devstral-2-123B-Instruct-2512IQ2_S125B37.01 GiB5.84 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
Mistral-Medium-3.5-128BI1-IQ2_S128B37.01 GiB5.84 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
XORTRON-NXTXPRTXXLI1-IQ2_S128B37.01 GiB5.84 GiB44.01 GiB0.63 GiB13±22%
From the filePredictedwhat these mean

Speed is modeled, not measured: decode is memory-bandwidth bound, so tokens per second is bytes read per token against achievable bandwidth. Mixture-of-experts models carry a wider band because only the routed experts are read each step, and few have been measured publicly.

Measured on this card

third-party benchmarks, aggregated
WorkloadMedianMiddle 50%Runs
Image generation36.14 it/s28.9140.1121
Benchmarked· n=21

Aggregated from community-submitted runs, so the spread is wide by nature — it covers different models, resolutions, step counts and settings, not one controlled configuration. Read the middle 50% rather than the median alone. These figures are reproduced with attribution from vladmandic-sd-data-benchmark, which publishes no licence — so we display and link rather than redistribute them.

Questions people ask

What AI models can a RTX 6000 Ada Generation run?
2031 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a RTX 6000 Ada Generation at 32,768 context with q8_0 KV cache, the largest being Qwen3.5-122B-A10B at Q2_K. That covers text, vision-language, image, video and speech models.
How much usable memory does a RTX 6000 Ada Generation actually have?
Its nameplate is 48 GB, but about 44.64 GiB is available to a model once driver and compositor overhead is accounted for.
Is a RTX 6000 Ada Generation fast for local AI?
Its memory bandwidth is 960 GB/s, and that figure — not teraflops — is what governs token generation speed. Capacity decides what you can run; bandwidth decides how fast it runs.