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RTX A2000

RTX A2000 has 12 GB of VRAM at 288 GB/s — about 11.16 GiB usable after driver and compositor overhead. 875 of 2118 indexed models fit at 128K context with q8_0 KV.

Spec sheet· bandwidth, theoreticalFrom the file· fit from summed bytesPredicted· speed
Memory
12 GB
GDDR6
Bandwidth
288 GB/s
192-bit bus
Tensor FP16
32 TF
dense
TDP
70 W
$449 MSRP
KV cachef16q8_0q4_0quantizing the KV cache is a ~2× lever on the dominant term at long context
text 686vision language 95audio tts 20video 14audio asr 38embedding 21image 1

What fits at 128K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 875 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
Marco-Nano-InstructMoEI1-IQ2_XXS8.0B2.75 GiB7.44 GiB11.16 GiB0.00 GiB12±37%
HopCoder-Mini-35B-A3B-VL36MoETQ2_035.1B8.82 GiB1.33 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB44±37%
Ling-liteMoEQ2_K16.8B6.43 GiB3.72 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB20±37%
gemma-3-12b-it-vl-Gemini-3-Pro-Preview-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-Q3_K_M12.2B5.60 GiB4.50 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-3-12b-it-vl-Deepseek-v3.1-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-Q3_K_M12.2B5.60 GiB4.50 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-3-12b-it-ultra-uncensored-hereticQ3_K_M12.2B5.60 GiB4.50 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-3-12b-it-vl-GLM-4.7-Flash-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-Q3_K_M12.2B5.60 GiB4.50 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Floppa-12B-Gemma3-UncensoredI1-Q3_K_M12.2B5.60 GiB4.50 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-3-12b-it-hereticI1-Q3_K_M12.2B5.60 GiB4.50 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-3-12b-it-abliteratedQ3_K_M12.2B5.60 GiB4.50 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-3-12b-it-abliterated-v2Q3_K_M11.8B5.60 GiB4.50 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-3-12b-itQ3_K_M12.2B5.60 GiB4.50 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
orpheus-3b-0.1-pretrainedQ5_13.8B2.68 GiB7.44 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Trinity-MiniMoEQ2_K26.1B9.01 GiB1.12 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB42±37%
Aura-4BI1-Q2_K_S4.5B1.61 GiB8.50 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-21B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Deckard-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-IQ2_S21.3B6.87 GiB3.19 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.6-21B-IQ-Ultra-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-IQ2_S21.3B6.87 GiB3.19 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
GigaChat3-10B-A1.8B-baseMoEQ6_K11.5B8.18 GiB1.94 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB32±37%
VibeVoice-1.5BF322.7B10.07 GiB0.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
magnum-v2-4bI1-IQ2_M4.5B1.60 GiB8.50 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Impish_LLAMA_4BIQ2_M4.5B1.60 GiB8.50 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
granite-34b-code-base-8kI1-IQ2_S33.7B10.04 GiB0.00 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Engineer-Deckard-GeminiI1-IQ1_S27.7B5.80 GiB4.25 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-HERETIC-Polaris-Advanced-Thinking-Alpha-uncensoredI1-IQ1_S27.4B5.80 GiB4.25 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Deckard-PKD-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-IQ1_S27.4B5.80 GiB4.25 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Huihui-Qwen3.5-27B-abliteratedI1-IQ1_S27.8B5.80 GiB4.25 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Unredacted-MAXI1-IQ1_S27.4B5.80 GiB4.25 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-hereticI1-IQ1_S27.4B5.80 GiB4.25 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-DerestrictedI1-IQ1_S27.8B5.80 GiB4.25 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-DistilledI1-IQ1_S27.8B5.80 GiB4.25 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-35B-A3BMoEIQ1_M36.0B8.77 GiB1.33 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB44±37%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3BMoEIQ1_M36.0B8.77 GiB1.33 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB44±37%
Grug-12BIQ3_M12.0B5.56 GiB4.50 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-12B-it-Esper4IQ3_M12.0B5.56 GiB4.50 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-12B-itIQ3_M12.0B5.56 GiB4.50 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Gemma-4-12B-StyleTuneI1-IQ3_S13.0B5.55 GiB4.50 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-12b-heretic-styletune-headI1-IQ3_S12.0B5.55 GiB4.50 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
syrian-gemma-12bI1-IQ3_S13.0B5.55 GiB4.50 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Wan2.2-Distill-ModelsQ5_K_M14.3B10.06 GiB0.00 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507IQ4_XS4.7B2.12 GiB7.97 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
SkyReels-V2-DF-14B-540PQ5_K_M14.3B10.06 GiB0.00 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-19B-A4B-it-INSTRUCT-Heretic-UncensoredMoEI1-Q2_K_S19.0B7.29 GiB2.81 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-19B-A4B-it-The-DECKARD-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingMoEI1-Q2_K_S19.0B7.29 GiB2.81 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-19b-a4b-it-REAP-hereticMoEI1-Q2_K_S19.0B7.29 GiB2.81 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
Gemma-4-19BMoEI1-Q2_K_S19.0B7.29 GiB2.81 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-A4B-98e-v6-coder-itMoEIQ2_S20.5B7.29 GiB2.81 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-uncensoredQ5_K_L3.6B2.64 GiB7.44 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
LFM2-24B-A2BMoEIQ3_XXS23.8B8.75 GiB1.33 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB39±37%
Wan2.1-T2V-14BQ5_014.3B10.05 GiB0.00 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB16±22%
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-InstructMoEIQ4_XS15.7B8.05 GiB2.02 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB29±37%
Phi-4-mini-instruct-abliteratedQ2_K3.8B1.57 GiB8.50 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB16±22%
Phi-4-mini-reasoningQ2_K3.8B1.57 GiB8.50 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB16±22%
Phi-4-mini-instructQ2_K3.8B1.57 GiB8.50 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB16±22%
DeepSeek-V2-Lite-Chat-Uncensored-Unbiased-ReasonerMoEIQ4_XS15.7B8.05 GiB2.02 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB29±37%
DeepSeek-V2-Lite-Chat-UncensoredMoEIQ4_XS15.7B8.05 GiB2.02 GiB11.07 GiB0.09 GiB29±37%
Kimi-VL-A3B-InstructMoEI1-Q3_K_L16.4B8.03 GiB2.02 GiB11.06 GiB0.10 GiB29±37%
Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506MoEQ3_K_L16.4B8.03 GiB2.02 GiB11.06 GiB0.10 GiB29±37%
Moonlight-16B-A3B-InstructMoEQ3_K_L16.0B8.03 GiB2.02 GiB11.06 GiB0.10 GiB29±37%
EVA-Yi-1.5-9B-32K-V1I1-IQ3_S8.8B3.64 GiB6.38 GiB11.04 GiB0.12 GiB16±22%
dolphin-2.9.3-mistral-7B-32kI1-IQ1_S7.2B1.50 GiB8.50 GiB11.04 GiB0.12 GiB16±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 generation4.98 it/s3.586.3666
Benchmarked· n=66

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 A2000 run?
875 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a RTX A2000 at 131,072 context with q8_0 KV cache, the largest being Marco-Nano-Instruct at I1-IQ2_XXS. That covers text, vision-language, image, video and speech models.
How much usable memory does a RTX A2000 actually have?
Its nameplate is 12 GB, but about 11.16 GiB is available to a model once driver and compositor overhead is accounted for.
Is a RTX A2000 fast for local AI?
Its memory bandwidth is 288 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.